Motivational Quotes

Business

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Business

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Coke, Sir Edward

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

10.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

13.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

14.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

15.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

17.

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

Jacobs, Randall

18.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

19.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

20.

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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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

22.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

25.

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

Proverb, American

26.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

27.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

28.

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

Welch, John

29.

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

Galvin, Robert

30.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

31.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

32.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

33.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

35.

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.

36.

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

39.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

40.

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

Dickens, Charles

41.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

42.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

43.

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

Perot, H. Ross

44.

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

Barzan, Gerald

45.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

46.

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

47.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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