Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Business

1.

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

David Letterman

2.

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

3.

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

Patterson, John H.

4.

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

Iacocca, Lee

5.

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

Ogilvy, David

6.

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

Hook, Harold

7.

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

8.

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.

9.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

10.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

11.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

12.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

13.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

14.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

15.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

16.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

17.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

19.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

21.

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

Field, Marshall

22.

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

23.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

24.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

25.

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

Galvin, Robert

26.

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

Adolt, H. V.

27.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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.

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

Walton, Sam

30.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

31.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

32.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

33.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

34.

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

35.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

36.

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

37.

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

Wang, An

38.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

39.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

40.

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

41.

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

Cathcart, Jim

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

45.

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

46.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

47.

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

48.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

49.

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

50.

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