Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Warren Buffett

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Ford, Henry

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Galvin, Robert

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Ogilvy, David

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Bond, Alan

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

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

Collins, Nathan

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin