Motivational Quotes

Business

Location, location, location.

- Dillard, William

Best Quotes about Business

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

Buffett, Warren

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Forbes, B. C.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Barzan, Gerald

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Welch, John

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Iacocca, Lee

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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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

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Manzi, Jim

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ovid

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

Shakespeare, William

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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