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

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

Forbes, B. C.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

Ovid

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

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Walton, Sam

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

12.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

13.

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

14.

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

Ogilvy, David

15.

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

David Letterman

16.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

17.

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

18.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

19.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

20.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

21.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

26.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

27.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

28.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

29.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

36.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

37.

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

Perot, H. Ross

38.

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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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

40.

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

Blair, Tony

41.

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

Ogilvy, David

42.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Business is more exciting than any game.