Motivational Quotes

Business

Business is more exciting than any game.

- Beaverbrook, Lord

Best Quotes about Business

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Malek, Fred

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

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

Barzan, Gerald

10.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

16.

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

Hook, Harold

17.

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

18.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

19.

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

Patterson, John H.

20.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

21.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

22.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

23.

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

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

26.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

27.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

30.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

31.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

32.

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

Rena, Peter

33.

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

Morley, John

34.

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

Kiam, Victor

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

36.

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

Walton, Sam

37.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

41.

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

Proverb

42.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

43.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

44.

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

45.

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

Ford, Henry

46.

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

Ogilvy, David

47.

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

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