Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Coke, Sir Edward

Best Quotes about Business

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Walton, Sam

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

Galvin, Robert

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Knudsen, William

10.

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

Bond, Alan

11.

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

Field, Marshall

12.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

13.

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

Proverb, American

14.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

15.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

16.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

17.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

18.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.

20.

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

21.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

22.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

27.

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

Forbes, B. C.

28.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

29.

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

Wang, An

30.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

31.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

32.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

33.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

34.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

35.

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

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

37.

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

38.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

39.

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.

40.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

41.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

Hawken, Paul

43.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Forbes, B. C.

45.

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

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

Walton, Sam

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

48.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

49.

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

50.

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