Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Welch, John

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

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

John Cleese

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

Jurgen Schrempp

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

10.

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

George Ade

11.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

12.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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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.

14.

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

Buffett, Warren

15.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

16.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

18.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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.

21.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

22.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

23.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

24.

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.

25.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

27.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

28.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

30.

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

31.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

32.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

33.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

34.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

35.

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

36.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

37.

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

38.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

39.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American