Motivational Quotes

Business

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Business

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Proverb, German

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

10.

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

Proverb

11.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

12.

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.

13.

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

Proverb, American

14.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

15.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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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

18.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

19.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

20.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

21.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

22.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

23.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

25.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

26.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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

28.

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

Patterson, John H.

29.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

30.

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

31.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

32.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

34.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

35.

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

36.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

37.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

38.

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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

40.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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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.

42.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

43.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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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.