Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb, American

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Revson, Charles

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cathcart, Jim

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

15.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

16.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

David Letterman

19.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

20.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

21.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

24.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

25.

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.

26.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

27.

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

Morley, John

28.

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

Mitchell Caplan

29.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

30.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

31.

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

George Ade

32.

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

33.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

34.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

35.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

36.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

37.

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

38.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

41.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

42.

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

Barzan, Gerald

43.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Ford, Henry

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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.

48.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

49.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

50.

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

Forbes, B. C.