Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Bond, Alan

Best Quotes about Business

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

Ford, Henry

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

Walton, Sam

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

Field, Marshall

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Welch, John

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Hook, Harold

10.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

11.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

12.

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.

13.

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

Little, Royal

14.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

17.

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

18.

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

David Letterman

19.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

20.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

21.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

22.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

23.

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

24.

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

Patterson, John H.

25.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Warren Buffett

30.

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

31.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

32.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

33.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

34.

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

Hawken, Paul

35.

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

36.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

37.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

38.

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

39.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

40.

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

Branson, Richard

41.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

42.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

43.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

44.

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

Ovid

45.

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

Forbes, B. C.

46.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

49.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Basinger, Kim