Motivational Quotes

Business

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Business

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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

Ovid

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

Knudsen, William

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

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Walton, Sam

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

10.

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

Branson, Richard

11.

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

12.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

13.

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

14.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

15.

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

Dane, Frank

16.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

17.

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

David Letterman

18.

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

19.

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

Ford, Henry

20.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

22.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

23.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

24.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

25.

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

26.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

27.

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

28.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

32.

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

33.

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

Thomas, Dylan

34.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

35.

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

36.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

37.

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.

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

41.

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

Barzan, Gerald

42.

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

Warren Buffett

43.

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

Hook, Harold

44.

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

45.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

46.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

47.

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

Grove, Andrew

48.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

49.

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

50.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold