Motivational Quotes

Business

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Business

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Olsen, Kenneth

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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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

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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

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

Warren Buffett

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Proverb, American

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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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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 the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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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

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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