Motivational Quotes

Business

I buy when other people are selling.

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Business

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

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

Walton, Sam

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Morley, John

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

10.

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

11.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

12.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

13.

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

Aldus Manutius

14.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

15.

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.

16.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

20.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

21.

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

22.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

23.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

24.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

25.

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

26.

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

Forbes, B. C.

27.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

28.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

29.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

30.

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

Welch, John

31.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

32.

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

33.

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

Ovid

34.

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

Field, Marshall

35.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

37.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

38.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

39.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

40.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

41.

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

42.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

44.

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

George Ade

45.

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

46.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

47.

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 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.

49.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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