Motivational Quotes

Business

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

- Laura Moncur

Best Quotes about Business

1.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

2.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

3.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

4.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

5.

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.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

6.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

7.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

8.

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

David Letterman

9.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

10.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

11.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

12.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

13.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

14.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

15.

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

Forbes, B. C.

16.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

17.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

18.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

19.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

20.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

21.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

22.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

23.

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

Wang, An

24.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

25.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

26.

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

27.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

28.

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

Dickens, Charles

29.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

30.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

31.

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

32.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

33.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

34.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

35.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

36.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

38.

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.

39.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

40.

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