Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Bierce, Ambrose

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

Galvin, Robert

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

10.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

11.

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

12.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

13.

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

Mitchell Caplan

14.

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

Hawken, Paul

15.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

16.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

20.

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

21.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

22.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

23.

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

24.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

25.

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

Morley, John

26.

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

Dickens, Charles

27.

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.

28.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

29.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

30.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

31.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

32.

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

33.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

35.

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

Warren Buffett

36.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

37.

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

Buffett, Warren

38.

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

Aldus Manutius

39.

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

Thomas, Dylan

40.

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

41.

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

42.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

43.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

44.

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

Malek, Fred

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

48.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

49.

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter