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

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

Proverb

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Field, Marshall

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

Geneen, Harold S.

10.

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

11.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

12.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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 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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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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

19.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

20.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

21.

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

22.

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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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Hawken, Paul

27.

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

Proverb, American

28.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

30.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

31.

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

32.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

33.

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

Mitchell Caplan

34.

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

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

Revson, Charles

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

49.

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

Knudsen, William