Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

Brown, Derby

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

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

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

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

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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.

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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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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

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Basinger, Kim

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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 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

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

Proverb

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ford, Henry

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Galvin, Robert

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, American

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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

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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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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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Dickens, Charles

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.