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

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.

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

David Letterman

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Walton, Sam

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Buffett, Warren

10.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

11.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

12.

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

13.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

14.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

15.

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

16.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

17.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

18.

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

19.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

20.

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

Armour, P. D.

21.

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

22.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

23.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

24.

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

Dickens, Charles

25.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

26.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

27.

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

Forbes, B. C.

28.

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

29.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

30.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

31.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

32.

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

33.

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

Forbes, B. C.

34.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

35.

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

Bean, L.L.

36.

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

37.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

38.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

39.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

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

Patterson, John H.

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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

Oscar Wilde

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

49.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

50.

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