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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

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

Leavitt, Theodore

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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.

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

Walton, Sam

10.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

11.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

12.

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

13.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

14.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

15.

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

Bean, L.L.

16.

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

17.

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

Knudsen, William

18.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

19.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

20.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

Ovid

23.

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

26.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

27.

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

28.

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

Forbes, B. C.

29.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

30.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

31.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

32.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

35.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

36.

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

37.

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

Walton, Sam

38.

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

39.

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

40.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

41.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

42.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

43.

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.

44.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

45.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

46.

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

Warren Buffett

47.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

48.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

49.

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