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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Watson, Thomas J.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

10.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

11.

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

Blair, Tony

12.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

13.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

14.

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

Ford, Henry

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

27.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

28.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

29.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

30.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

31.

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

Dane, Frank

32.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

33.

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

Branson, Richard

34.

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

35.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

36.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

37.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

38.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

39.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

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

Dickens, Charles

41.

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

42.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

43.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

44.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

45.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

46.

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

Warren Buffett

47.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

48.

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

49.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

50.

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

Walton, Sam