Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Brown, Derby

Best Quotes about Business

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

Mitchell Caplan

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Malek, Fred

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.

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

Hook, Harold

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

10.

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

Ovid

11.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

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

Manzi, Jim

14.

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

15.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

16.

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

Basinger, Kim

17.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

18.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

19.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

20.

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

21.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

22.

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

Dane, Frank

23.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

24.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

25.

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

Jacobs, Randall

26.

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

27.

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

Galvin, Robert

28.

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

29.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

30.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

31.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

35.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

36.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

37.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

38.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

39.

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

40.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

41.

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

42.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

43.

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

Adolt, H. V.

44.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

45.

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

Aldus Manutius

46.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

47.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo