Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Business

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

10.

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

Bean, L.L.

11.

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

12.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Iacocca, Lee

15.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

16.

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

Little, Royal

18.

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

Wang, An

19.

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

Dane, Frank

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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

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Hawken, Paul

23.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

24.

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

Adolt, H. V.

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

28.

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

Aldus Manutius

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

30.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

31.

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

Proverb, American

32.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

34.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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.

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Ogilvy, David

42.

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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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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

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray