Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Cathcart, Jim

Best Quotes about Business

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

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

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

10.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

11.

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

12.

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

Tara Hunt

13.

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

Walton, Sam

14.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

19.

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

20.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

21.

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

Ovid

22.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

23.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

24.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

25.

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

26.

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

Walton, Sam

27.

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

Adolt, H. V.

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Blair, Tony

31.

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

Proverb, American

32.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

33.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

34.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

35.

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

George Ade

36.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

37.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

38.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

39.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

40.

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

Dane, Frank

41.

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

Malek, Fred

42.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

43.

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

Warren Buffett

44.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

45.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

48.

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

49.

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

Cathcart, Jim

50.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry