Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Business

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

Welch, John

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Ogilvy, David

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

10.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

13.

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

Forbes, B. C.

14.

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

15.

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

Iacocca, Lee

16.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Blair, Tony

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

21.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

24.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

25.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

26.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

27.

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

Thomas, Dylan

28.

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

29.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

30.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Malek, Fred

34.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

35.

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

Ford, Henry

36.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

37.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

38.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

39.

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.

40.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

41.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

42.

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

43.

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

44.

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

Patterson, John H.

45.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William