Motivational Quotes

Business

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

- O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Dickens, Charles

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Warren Buffett

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

David Letterman

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Little, Royal

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Malek, Fred

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Proverb, American

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Ovid

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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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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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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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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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.