Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Branson, Richard

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Shakespeare, William

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

10.

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

11.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

12.

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

13.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

14.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

15.

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

Proverb, German

16.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

17.

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

Field, Marshall

18.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

19.

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

20.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

24.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

25.

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

Basinger, Kim

26.

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

Jacobs, Randall

27.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

28.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

29.

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

Adolt, H. V.

30.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

31.

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

Oscar Wilde

32.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

33.

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

34.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

35.

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

36.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

37.

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

38.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

39.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

40.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

41.

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

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Ovid

44.

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.

45.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

46.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

47.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

48.

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

49.

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

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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