Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

1.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

2.

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

Jacobs, Randall

3.

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

4.

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

Bean, L.L.

5.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

6.

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

7.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

8.

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

9.

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

Welch, John

10.

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

11.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

12.

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

Collins, Nathan

13.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

14.

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

15.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

16.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

17.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

18.

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

David Letterman

19.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

20.

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

21.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

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

24.

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

Grove, Andrew

25.

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

Aldus Manutius

26.

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

Barzan, Gerald

27.

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

Armour, P. D.

28.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

29.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

30.

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.

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Adolt, H. V.

34.

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

35.

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

Revson, Charles

36.

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

Iacocca, Lee

37.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

38.

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

Proverb, German

39.

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

Ovid

40.

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

Forbes, B. C.

41.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

45.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

46.

A dinner lubricates business.