Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Bond, Alan

Best Quotes about Business

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

10.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

11.

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

12.

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

Brown, Derby

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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.

14.

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

15.

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

Dickens, Charles

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

19.

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

Knudsen, William

20.

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

21.

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

Little, Royal

22.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

23.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

24.

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

Ogilvy, David

25.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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

27.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

28.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

29.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

30.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

33.

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.

34.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

35.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

36.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

37.

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

Grove, Andrew

38.

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

39.

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

40.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

41.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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

43.

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

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

45.

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

Blair, Tony

46.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

47.

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

Ogilvy, David

48.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo