Motivational Quotes

Business

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

- Riklis, Meshulam

Best Quotes about Business

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Little, Royal

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

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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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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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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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

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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

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

Proverb, American

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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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

Ogilvy, David

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Hawken, Paul

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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

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

John Cleese

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Dane, Frank

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan