Motivational Quotes

Business

I buy when other people are selling.

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Business

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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 worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Revson, Charles

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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