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

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Morley, John

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

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

Warren Buffett

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Proverb, German

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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.

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

Ford, Henry

11.

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

12.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

13.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

14.

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

Dickens, Charles

15.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

16.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

17.

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

Ovid

18.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

19.

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

Branson, Richard

20.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

21.

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

22.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

23.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

24.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

25.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

26.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

27.

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

28.

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

Welch, John

29.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

30.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

31.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

32.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

33.

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

34.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

35.

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

Cathcart, Jim

36.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

39.

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

40.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

41.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

42.

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.

43.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

44.

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

45.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

Brown, Derby

49.

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

Oscar Wilde

50.

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

Buffett, Warren