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"733 Business Quotes

For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.

Drive Wit Ego Vision
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Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

Lucky Man Possibility Believe
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Keep it simple, don’t try to do everything. Pick your lane and be the best at it.

Simple Keep Pick Best
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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Secret Business Know Something
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One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

Business Mistakes Certain One thing
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Never mind those who tell you to leave God out of your business, your business is God’s business.

Business Never Mind Your
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The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

About Care Companies Like
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Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Business Short Discourse Men
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Continuously reinvent yourself but do not change the DNA of the brand.
Continuously Reinvent DNA Brand
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What you call salary is that bribe they pay you to forget about your dreams.

Salary Bribe Your dream Pay you
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Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

Credit Lifeblood Business
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Saving every penny is very necessary even tho it’s boring.

Every penny Boring Saving Very necessary
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The character of the owners determines the destiny of the asset.

Asset Destiny Owners
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Not doing what we love in the name of greed is the very poor management of our lives.

Love Greed Poor Management
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Watch this pickpocket! “A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

Stock Market Hyperactive Enterprise
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The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.

Stock Market Money Patience
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The Greatest Enemies of Equity Investor are Expenses and Emotions.
Enemy Equity Investor Great
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Smart doesn't always equal rational. To be a successful investor you must divorce yourself from the fears and greed of the people around you, although it is almost impossible.

Smart Investor Greed People
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Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

Opportunity Rain Thimble Gold
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Widespread fear is your friend as an investor because it serves up bargain purchases.
Fear Investor Bargain Friend
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“If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes”

Stock Willing Owning Years
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Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

Something Perfectly Market Shutdown
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Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.

Someone Romantic Market Investor
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What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word selected: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

Competence Boundary Ability Investor
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What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.

Invest People Count Realistic
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Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: ‘Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth.’

Stock Wealth Woman Commodity
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So smile when you read a headline that says Investors lose as market falls. Edit it in your mind to Disinvestors lose as market falls but investors gain. Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other.

Buyer Seller Truism Headline
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We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it. In stating this opinion, we define risk, using dictionary terms, as “the possibility of loss or injury.

Business Economy Buying Possibility
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I’ve seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage – leverage being borrowed money. You really don’t need leverage in this world much. If you’re smart, you’re going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

Leverage Money Borrow Fail
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If your employees, including your CEO, wish to give to their alma maters or other institutions to which they feel a personal attachment, we believe they should use their own money, not yours.

Money Institution Alma Employee
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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

Pleasure Crowd Intellect Temperament
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Intensity is the price of excellence.
Intensity Price Excellence The
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You shouldn’t own common stocks if a 50% decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

Common Stock Value Decrease
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If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

Hire Dwarf Company People
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The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.

Dinner Music
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The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.

Understand Most Thing Not
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I always tried to move up the food chain. I started with cement and then moved into textiles and banking. When I was trading sugar, I added salt and flour so that then we could do pasta. And then I thought, why not make the bag for it, too? So, we started making packaging.

Always Chain Then When
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If I had challenges in my company, I would not hesitate to sell assets to remain afloat, to get to the better times, because it doesn’t make any sense for me to keep any assets and then suffocate the whole organization.

Hesitate Better Would Whole
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I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight. It took me thirty years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.

Journey Supreme Dream Build
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Don’t kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.

Keep Your Kill The
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Manufacture, don’t just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had to start manufacturing the same product I was trading on; which is commodities.

Trade Even Start Product
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When you import goods, you import poverty and you export jobs to other parts of the globe where such goods are produced.

Where Such Good When
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You must have a vision and not just a vision but you must have a plan that would make you fulfil that vision.

Vision Plan Make Must
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The people who were supposed to invest in refineries, who understand the market, are benefiting from there being no refineries because of the fuel import business.

Business Understand Market People
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I'm not in it for the money. No, no. I like to run a business that's successful... I'm a very creative person.

Creative Person Business Money
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You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year.

Look Rate Waste Year
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There are no rules in the entertainment business.
Rule Business Entertainment
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The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.

Ecologist Lost Money Launched Edition
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A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.

Pound Energy Seven Solution
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.

Big Business Political Access
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