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

1.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

2.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

3.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

4.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

5.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

6.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

7.

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

8.

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

Thomas, Dylan

9.

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

Galvin, Robert

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

13.

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

14.

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

George Ade

15.

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

Dickens, Charles

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

18.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

19.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

20.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

21.

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

Proverb, German

22.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

23.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

24.

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

25.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

26.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

27.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

28.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

29.

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

30.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

31.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

32.

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

Buffett, Warren

33.

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

34.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

35.

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

Mitchell Caplan

36.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

37.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

38.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

39.

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

Bond, Alan

40.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

41.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

42.

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

Morley, John

43.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

44.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

45.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

46.

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

47.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall