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

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Leavitt, Theodore

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

10.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

11.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

12.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

16.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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

19.

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

Adolt, H. V.

20.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

21.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

22.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

24.

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

Forbes, B. C.

25.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

George Ade

27.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

28.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

29.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

30.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

33.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

34.

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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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Ogilvy, David

37.

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

Barzan, Gerald

38.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

42.

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

Proverb, German

43.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

44.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

45.

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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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Ovid

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

Jurgen Schrempp

50.

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