Motivational Quotes

Business

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Business

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Wang, An

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

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Ford, Henry

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

10.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

11.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

12.

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

Proverb, German

13.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

14.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

15.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

16.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

17.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

18.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

19.

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

Proverb

20.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

21.

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

Patterson, John H.

22.

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.

23.

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

Tara Hunt

24.

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

Proverb, American

25.

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

George Ade

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

Kiam, Victor

28.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

29.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

30.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

31.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

32.

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

33.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

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

Armour, P. D.

35.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

36.

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

37.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

38.

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

Manzi, Jim

39.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

40.

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

Thomas, Dylan

41.

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

42.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

43.

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

Bean, L.L.

44.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

45.

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

46.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

47.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

48.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

49.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

50.

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