Motivational Quotes

Business

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Forbes, B. C.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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.

10.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

11.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

12.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

13.

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

Ford, Henry

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.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

16.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

17.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

18.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

19.

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

20.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

21.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

22.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

23.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

24.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

25.

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

26.

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

Wang, An

27.

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

Field, Marshall

28.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

29.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

30.

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

31.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

32.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

34.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

35.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

36.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

37.

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

38.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

40.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

42.

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

Dane, Frank

43.

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

Wilde, Oscar

44.

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

Welch, John

45.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

46.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

47.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

48.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

49.

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

50.

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

Jurgen Schrempp