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

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Wang, An

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

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Mcnealy, Scott

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

10.

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

Proverb, German

11.

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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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

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

Dane, Frank

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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.

18.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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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

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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

24.

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

Walton, Sam

25.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Galvin, Robert

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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.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Hawken, Paul

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

32.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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.

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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

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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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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

David Letterman