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

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Field, Marshall

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

Proverb, American

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

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

Knudsen, William

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

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

Oscar Wilde

10.

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

11.

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

Iacocca, Lee

12.

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

Grove, Andrew

13.

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

Armour, P. D.

14.

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

Blair, Tony

15.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

16.

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

17.

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

Adolt, H. V.

18.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

22.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

23.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

24.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

25.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

26.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

28.

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

29.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

30.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

31.

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

32.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

33.

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

Bond, Alan

34.

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

35.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

36.

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

Ford, Henry

37.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

39.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

40.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

41.

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

Branson, Richard

42.

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

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Mitchell Caplan

45.

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

Basinger, Kim

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