Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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 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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

15.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

16.

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

17.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

18.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

19.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

20.

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.

21.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

22.

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

Blair, Tony

23.

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

Oscar Wilde

24.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

25.

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

John Cleese

26.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

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

28.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

29.

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

Warren Buffett

30.

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.

31.

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

Bean, L.L.

32.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

33.

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

Patterson, John H.

34.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

35.

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

36.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

37.

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

38.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

39.

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.

40.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

41.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

42.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

43.

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

Dickens, Charles

44.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

45.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

46.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

47.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

48.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

49.

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

50.

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

Proverb