Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Coke, Sir Edward

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Walton, Sam

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

10.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

11.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

15.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

16.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

17.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

18.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

19.

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.

20.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

21.

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

Brown, Derby

22.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

23.

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

Galvin, Robert

24.

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

Ovid

25.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

26.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

27.

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

Blair, Tony

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

30.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

32.

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

33.

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

34.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

35.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

36.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

40.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

41.

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