Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Grove, Andrew

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

Galvin, Robert

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

10.

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

John Cleese

11.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

12.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

15.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

16.

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

17.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

18.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

20.

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

Perot, H. Ross

21.

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

Buffett, Warren

22.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

23.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

24.

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

Branson, Richard

25.

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

Oscar Wilde

26.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

27.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

28.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

29.

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

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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.

32.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

33.

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

Rena, Peter

34.

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

35.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

36.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

37.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

38.

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

Warren Buffett

39.

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

Tara Hunt

40.

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

Dickens, Charles

41.

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

42.

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

Hawken, Paul

43.

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

44.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

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

46.

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

Forbes, B. C.

47.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac