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These business quotes capture different sides of the experience — from struggle to strength. Find the lines that resonate and carry them with you.
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. This remains a fundamental principle of modern commerce."
-- Henry Ford"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. This remains a fundamental principle of modern commerce."
-- Henry David Thoreau"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. This remains a fundamental principle of modern commerce."
-- Peter Drucker"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming. This remains a fundamental principle of modern commerce."
-- Richard Branson"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. This remains a fundamental principle of modern commerce."
-- Socrates"Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business."
-- Zig Ziglar"Your business is never really good or bad 'out there.' Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears."
-- Zig Ziglar"It is better to be a small part of a great business than a large part of a mediocre one."
-- Warren Buffett"A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse—not a remarkable mathematician."
-- Warren Buffett"It’s nice to have a lot of money, but you don’t want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things."
-- Warren Buffett"We believe that according the name 'investor' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic."
-- Warren Buffett"Cash is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent."
-- Warren Buffett"If you lose money for the firm, I will be understanding. If you lose a shred of reputation, I will be ruthless."
-- Warren Buffett"I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am an investor."
-- Warren Buffett"Beware of the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns."
-- Warren Buffett"If you hire somebody without integrity, you really want them to be dumb and lazy."
-- Warren Buffett"In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love."
-- Warren Buffett"There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult."
-- Warren Buffett"In the short term, the market is a popularity contest. In the long term, the market is a weighing machine."
-- Warren Buffett"Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you'd be content to own it in the absence of any market."
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These business quotes capture different sides of the experience — from struggle to strength. Find the lines that resonate and carry them with you.
Some of the most celebrated business quotes come from A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, among many others featured on this page.
Popular business quotes include: "Thinking is the capital, enterprise is the way, hard work is the solution." -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Also: "The talent for making money is not the same as the talent for creating value." -- Elon Musk.
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