Motivational Quotes

Business

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

- Rena, Peter

Best Quotes about Business

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Warren Buffett

10.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

12.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

13.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

14.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

15.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

17.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

18.

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

Morley, John

19.

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

20.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

24.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

25.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

26.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

27.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

28.

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

Malek, Fred

29.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

30.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

31.

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

32.

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

Wang, An

33.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

34.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

35.

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

Ogilvy, David

36.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

37.

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

38.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

42.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

43.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

44.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

45.

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

46.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

47.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

48.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

49.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan