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

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

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

Manzi, Jim

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Branson, Richard

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

Leavitt, Theodore

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Riklis, Meshulam

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Brown, Derby

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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.

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

George Ade

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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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.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

38.

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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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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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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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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

Walton, Sam

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Barzan, Gerald