Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Business

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Gerber, Michael E.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

Dane, Frank

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

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

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

Field, Marshall

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

10.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

13.

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

14.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

15.

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

16.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

18.

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

19.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

20.

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

21.

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

22.

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

Grove, Andrew

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

26.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

27.

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

Aldus Manutius

28.

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

Bean, L.L.

29.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

30.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Riorio

34.

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

35.

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

Kiam, Victor

36.

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

Ford, Henry

37.

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

38.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

39.

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

40.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

41.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

42.

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

43.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.