Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Beene, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Business

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Proverb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Hook, Harold

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

Patterson, John H.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

10.

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

11.

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

Warren Buffett

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

15.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

16.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

17.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

18.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

19.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

20.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

21.

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

22.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

23.

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

24.

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

Barzan, Gerald

25.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

26.

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

Proverb, American

27.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

28.

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

Wang, An

29.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

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

Walton, Sam

31.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

32.

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

Buffett, Warren

33.

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

34.

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

Brown, Derby

35.

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

Collins, Nathan

36.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

37.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

38.

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

Malek, Fred

39.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

40.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

41.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

42.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

43.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

44.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

45.

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

Tara Hunt

46.

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

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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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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