Motivational Quotes

Business

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

- Olsen, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Business

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Hawken, Paul

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

Knudsen, William

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

Walton, Sam

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

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

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Adolt, H. V.

13.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

14.

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

Warren Buffett

15.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

16.

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

Perot, H. Ross

17.

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

18.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

19.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

20.

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

21.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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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

23.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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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

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

28.

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.

29.

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

Aldus Manutius

30.

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

31.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

32.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

33.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

34.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

35.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

George Ade

37.

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

Buffett, Warren

38.

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

39.

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