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

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

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

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

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Bean, L.L.

10.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

11.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

12.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

13.

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

Dane, Frank

14.

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

Proverb, German

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Morley, John

18.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

19.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

20.

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

21.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Grove, Andrew

27.

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

Galvin, Robert

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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.

32.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

33.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

34.

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

Buffett, Warren

35.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

36.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

37.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

38.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

39.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

40.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

41.

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

Basinger, Kim

42.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

44.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

46.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

47.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

48.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

49.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

50.

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.