Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Cardenas, Ruben

Best Quotes about Business

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

Welch, John

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

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

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

Malek, Fred

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

10.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

11.

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

Riorio

12.

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

Cathcart, Jim

13.

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

Wang, An

14.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

15.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

16.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

17.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

18.

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

19.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

20.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

21.

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.

22.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

23.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

24.

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

Proverb, American

25.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

26.

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

27.

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

Oscar Wilde

28.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

30.

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

Iacocca, Lee

31.

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

Brown, Derby

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

35.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

41.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

42.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

43.

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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.

47.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

48.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

49.

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

Blair, Tony

50.

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