Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Barzan, Gerald

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Riorio

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Walton, Sam

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

10.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Warren Buffett

12.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

13.

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

Barzan, Gerald

14.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

15.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

16.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

17.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

18.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

19.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

20.

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

21.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

22.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

23.

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

Patterson, John H.

24.

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

Hook, Harold

25.

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

Forbes, B. C.

26.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

27.

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

Iacocca, Lee

28.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

29.

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

Malek, Fred

30.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

31.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

32.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

33.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

34.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

35.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

36.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

37.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Wilde, Oscar

45.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

46.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

47.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

48.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin