Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Business

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

Aldus Manutius

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Buffett, Warren

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

10.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

11.

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

Riorio

12.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

13.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

14.

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

Warren Buffett

15.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

16.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

17.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

18.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

21.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

22.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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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

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

26.

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

27.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

32.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

33.

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

34.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

36.

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

Mitchell Caplan

37.

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

Adolt, H. V.

38.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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.

40.

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.

41.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

42.

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

Bond, Alan

43.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

48.

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

49.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

50.

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

Ford, Henry