Motivational Quotes

Business

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Business

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

10.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

11.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

17.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

21.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

22.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

25.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

29.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

30.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

31.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

32.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

33.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

37.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

41.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

42.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

45.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

46.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

47.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

48.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar