Motivational Quotes

Business

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

- Bernbach, William

Best Quotes about Business

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Knudsen, William

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Blair, Tony

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Scrutton, T. L.

10.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

11.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

12.

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

13.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

14.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

19.

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

20.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

21.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

22.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

23.

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

Riorio

24.

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

Barzan, Gerald

25.

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

26.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

27.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

28.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

29.

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

Ogilvy, David

30.

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

Basinger, Kim

31.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

33.

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

Hook, Harold

34.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

35.

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

Morley, John

36.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

37.

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

38.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

39.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

40.

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.

41.

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.

42.

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

Kiam, Victor

43.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

44.

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

Brown, Derby

45.

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

46.

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

47.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

48.

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

49.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

50.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp