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

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Kiam, Victor

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

12.

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

Blair, Tony

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

27.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

28.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

30.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

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

Proverb, American

32.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

40.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Ogilvy, David

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

Revson, Charles

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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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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde