Motivational Quotes

Business

I buy when other people are selling.

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Malek, Fred

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Patterson, John H.

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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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.

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

33.

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

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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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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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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

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.