Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Business

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Riorio

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

10.

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

Proverb, German

11.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

12.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

13.

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

David Letterman

14.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

15.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

16.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

17.

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

18.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

19.

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

Knudsen, William

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

21.

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

George Ade

22.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

23.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

24.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

25.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Oscar Wilde

28.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

29.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

30.

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

Manzi, Jim

31.

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

Ford, Henry

32.

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

Ogilvy, David

33.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

34.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

35.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

40.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

41.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

42.

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

Basinger, Kim

43.

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

44.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

45.

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.

46.

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.

47.

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

Aldus Manutius

48.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

49.

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

50.

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