Motivational Quotes

Business

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Business

1.

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

Iacocca, Lee

2.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

3.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

4.

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

Oscar Wilde

5.

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

John Cleese

6.

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

Proverb, German

7.

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

Patterson, John H.

8.

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

Wang, An

9.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

10.

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

Warren Buffett

11.

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

Perot, H. Ross

12.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

13.

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

Ford, Henry

14.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

15.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

16.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

17.

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

Basinger, Kim

18.

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.

19.

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

Ogilvy, David

20.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

21.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

22.

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

23.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

24.

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

27.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

31.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

32.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

33.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

34.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

35.

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

Galvin, Robert

36.

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

Little, Royal

37.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

38.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

39.

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

40.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

41.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

42.

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

Proverb, American

43.

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

Forbes, B. C.

44.

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

45.

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

Ovid

46.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

47.

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

Bean, L.L.

48.

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

Ford, Henry

49.

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

David Letterman

50.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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