Motivational Quotes

Business

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

- Gerber, Michael E.

Best Quotes about Business

1.

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

2.

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

Forbes, B. C.

3.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

7.

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

Walton, Sam

8.

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

9.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

10.

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

Dane, Frank

11.

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

Riorio

12.

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

Proverb, German

13.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

14.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

15.

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

16.

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

Hawken, Paul

17.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

18.

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

19.

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

John Cleese

20.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

23.

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

24.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

28.

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

Barzan, Gerald

29.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

30.

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

31.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

32.

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

33.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

34.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

35.

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

Aldus Manutius

36.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

37.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

38.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

40.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

41.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

42.

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

43.

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

Revson, Charles

44.

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

Perot, H. Ross

45.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

46.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.