Motivational Quotes

Business

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Business

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Dickens, Charles

12.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

13.

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

John Cleese

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

15.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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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

19.

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

Welch, John

20.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

21.

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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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

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

Proverb, German

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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

30.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

34.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

40.

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

Collins, Nathan

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

45.

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

Blair, Tony

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.