Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Wilson, Charles E.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

10.

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

Tara Hunt

11.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

12.

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

Patterson, John H.

13.

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

14.

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

15.

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

Riorio

16.

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

Armour, P. D.

17.

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.

18.

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.

19.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

20.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

21.

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

Perot, H. Ross

22.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

23.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

24.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

25.

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

Hawken, Paul

26.

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

27.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

28.

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

29.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

30.

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

Branson, Richard

31.

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.

32.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

33.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

34.

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

Blair, Tony

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

38.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

40.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

41.

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.

42.

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.

43.

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.

44.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

45.

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

46.

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

47.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

48.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

49.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

50.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.