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

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

Forbes, B. C.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Revson, Charles

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Morley, John

10.

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

11.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

12.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

13.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

15.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

16.

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

Patterson, John H.

17.

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

Mitchell Caplan

18.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

19.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

20.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

21.

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

Basinger, Kim

22.

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.

23.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

28.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

29.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

30.

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

Perot, H. Ross

31.

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

32.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

33.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

34.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

35.

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

36.

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

Armour, P. D.

37.

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

38.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

39.

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

Ford, Henry

40.

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

Aldus Manutius

41.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

42.

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

Thomas, Dylan

43.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

44.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

45.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

46.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

47.

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.

48.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

49.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

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

Shakespeare, William