Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

1.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

2.

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

Wilde, Oscar

3.

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

4.

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

Ovid

5.

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.

6.

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

Collins, Nathan

7.

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

Riorio

8.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

9.

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

10.

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

Basinger, Kim

11.

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.

12.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

13.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

14.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

15.

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

16.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

17.

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

18.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

19.

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

20.

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

Walton, Sam

21.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

22.

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

Proverb, German

23.

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

Field, Marshall

24.

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

25.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

26.

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

Forbes, B. C.

27.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

28.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

29.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

30.

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

Walton, Sam

31.

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

Oscar Wilde

32.

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

Ogilvy, David

33.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

34.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

35.

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

Hook, Harold

36.

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

Iacocca, Lee

37.

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

Knudsen, William

38.

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

39.

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

Little, Royal

40.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

41.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

42.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

43.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

44.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

45.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

46.

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.

47.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

48.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

49.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim