Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Warren Buffett

Best Quotes about Business

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

Little, Royal

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Proverb

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

Dane, Frank

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

19.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

32.

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

Blair, Tony

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, American

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

Ford, Henry

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

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

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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

Field, Marshall