Motivational Quotes

Business

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

- Coffin, Harold

Best Quotes about Business

1.

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

Ogilvy, David

2.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

3.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

4.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

5.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

6.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

7.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Barzan, Gerald

11.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

12.

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.

13.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

14.

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

15.

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

Forbes, B. C.

16.

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

17.

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

Galvin, Robert

18.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

19.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

20.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

21.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

22.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

23.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

24.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

25.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

26.

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

27.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

28.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

29.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

30.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

31.

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

Forbes, B. C.

32.

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

33.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

34.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

35.

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

Iacocca, Lee

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

39.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

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

Mitchell Caplan

41.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

42.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

43.

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