Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Coke, Sir Edward

Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb

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

Brown, Derby

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Little, Royal

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.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Riorio

10.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

11.

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.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

David Letterman

14.

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

15.

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

Iacocca, Lee

16.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Barzan, Gerald

20.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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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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

23.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

24.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

25.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

31.

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

Mitchell Caplan

32.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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 first thing the secretary types is the boss.

35.

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

36.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

37.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

38.

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

39.

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

Hook, Harold

40.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

41.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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.

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

Ogilvy, David

49.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

50.

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

Geneen, Harold S.