Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

1.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

2.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

3.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

4.

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

5.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

6.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

7.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

8.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

9.

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

Proverb, American

10.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

11.

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

12.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

13.

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

Branson, Richard

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Proverb, German

17.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

18.

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

19.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

Dickens, Charles

24.

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

25.

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

Oscar Wilde

26.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

27.

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

Blair, Tony

28.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

29.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

31.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

32.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

33.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

34.

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

Ogilvy, David

35.

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

Walton, Sam

36.

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

37.

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

Cathcart, Jim

38.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

39.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

40.

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

Walton, Sam

41.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

42.

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

43.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

44.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

45.

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

46.

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

47.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

48.

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

49.

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

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