Motivational Quotes

Business

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Business

1.

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

Dickens, Charles

2.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

3.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

4.

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

5.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

6.

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

7.

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

8.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

9.

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

10.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

12.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

13.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

14.

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

Proverb, German

15.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

16.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

17.

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

Ogilvy, David

18.

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

Malek, Fred

19.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

20.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

21.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

22.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

23.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

25.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

26.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

27.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

28.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

29.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

30.

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

Warren Buffett

31.

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

32.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

33.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

34.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

35.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

36.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

37.

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

Tara Hunt

38.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

39.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

40.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

41.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

42.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

43.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.