Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Business

I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty (1892–1976) American Business Person, Art Collector, Philanthropist

My father said: “You must never try to make all the money that’s in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won’t have many deals.”
J. Paul Getty (1892–1976) American Business Person, Art Collector, Philanthropist

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett (b.1930) American Investor

In a world of free, everyone can play.
Seth Godin (b.1960) American Entrepreneur

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) (c.250–184 BCE) Roman Comic Playwright

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
Harold S. Geneen (1910–1997) British-American Businessman

The world seems to have forgotten that, finally, business must be settled almost wholly by barter. Certainly, American bankers, investment bankers and promoters overlooked this basic fact when they joyfully proceeded to lend hundreds of millions and even billions to almost every foreign country on the face of the earth after the World War and before the collapse of our speculative boom. They never stopped to ask how the overseas borrowers could settle the colossal sums advanced to them…. The world had drifted too far away from the A.B.C. truth that trade and commerce must necessarily represent barter.
B. C. Forbes (1880–1954) Scottish-born American Journalist, Publisher

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
J. Paul Getty (1892–1976) American Business Person, Art Collector, Philanthropist

The busy have no time for tears.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet

I understand small business growth. I was one.
George W. Bush (b.1946) American Head of State, Businessperson

To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one’s entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one’s life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist

He who looks daily after his field finds a corn.
The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith

The best time to do great customer service is when a customer is upset.
Seth Godin (b.1960) American Entrepreneur

I don’t want to do business with those who don’t make a profit, because they can’t give the best service.
Richard Bach (b.1936) American Novelist, Aviator

It is very vulgar to talk about one’s business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright

If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
Vernon Howard (1918–92) American Spiritual Teacher, Philosopher

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.
Unknown

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) Russian Head of State, Political leader

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold S. Geneen (1910–1997) British-American Businessman

The position you hold and the work you are now doing.
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–67) American Poet, Playwright, Essayist

All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert (1906–97) American Engineer, Philosopher

The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer’s dollar before the other fellow gets it.
Stuart Chase (1888–1985) American Economist, Engineer, Author

The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries to protect its doctrines and institution instead of nurturing the evolution of consciousness. If one is not careful to distinguish the genuine insights of a religion from its irrelevant accretions, one can go through life following an inappropriate moral compass.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist

When each of these three elements of vision—concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment—are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist

The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-union-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was produced by private enterprises in a profit-and-loss system. And losses were at least as important in weeding out failures as profits in fostering successes. Let government succor failures, and we shall be headed for stagnation and decline.
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American Economist

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic

You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.
Unknown

If you don’t drive your business you will be driven out of business.
B. C. Forbes (1880–1954) Scottish-born American Journalist, Publisher

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher

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