Motivational Quotes

Business

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Business

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

Buffett, Warren

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Jurgen Schrempp

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

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

10.

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

Bond, Alan

11.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Hawken, Paul

13.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

14.

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

Branson, Richard

15.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

17.

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.

18.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

19.

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

Dickens, Charles

20.

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

Warren Buffett

21.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

22.

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

23.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

25.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

26.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

27.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

28.

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

29.

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

John Cleese

30.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

31.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

32.

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

33.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

34.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

35.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

36.

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

Aldus Manutius

37.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

41.

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

Wang, An

42.

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

43.

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

Revson, Charles

44.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

45.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

46.

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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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

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

49.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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.