Motivational Quotes

Business

Location, location, location.

- Dillard, William

Best Quotes about Business

1.

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

2.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

3.

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

Oscar Wilde

4.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

5.

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

Iacocca, Lee

6.

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

Thomas, Dylan

7.

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

8.

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

Galvin, Robert

9.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

10.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

11.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

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

Collins, Nathan

13.

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

14.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

15.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

16.

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

17.

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

18.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

19.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

20.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

21.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

22.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

23.

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

Little, Royal

24.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

25.

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

26.

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

Barzan, Gerald

27.

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

Bond, Alan

28.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

29.

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

30.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

31.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

32.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

Riorio

38.

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

39.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

40.

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.