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

1.

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

David Letterman

2.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

3.

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

4.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

5.

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

Aldus Manutius

6.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

7.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

8.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

9.

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

Proverb, German

10.

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

11.

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

Warren Buffett

12.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

13.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

14.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

15.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

16.

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

Oscar Wilde

17.

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

Riorio

18.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

19.

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.

20.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

21.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

22.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

23.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

24.

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

Hook, Harold

25.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

26.

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

Dane, Frank

27.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

28.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Walton, Sam

30.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

31.

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

Welch, John

32.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

33.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

34.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

35.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

36.

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

37.

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

Basinger, Kim

38.

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

Armour, P. D.

39.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

40.

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

Galvin, Robert

41.

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

42.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

43.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

44.

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

45.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

46.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

47.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

48.

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