Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Bean, L.L.

Best Quotes about Business

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Walton, Sam

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

Aldus Manutius

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Jacobs, Randall

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

14.

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

Dane, Frank

15.

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

John Cleese

16.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

17.

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

Mitchell Caplan

18.

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

Hook, Harold

19.

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

20.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

21.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

22.

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

23.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

24.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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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

27.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

28.

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.

29.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

30.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

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

Iacocca, Lee

32.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

33.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

34.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

38.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

39.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

40.

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

41.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

42.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

43.

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

Ogilvy, David

44.

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

Patterson, John H.

45.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

46.

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

50.

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

Barzan, Gerald