Motivational Quotes

Business

I buy when other people are selling.

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Business

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

14.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

15.

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

16.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

17.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

18.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

19.

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

Field, Marshall

20.

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.

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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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

23.

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

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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.

25.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Proverb, German

29.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

30.

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

Buffett, Warren

31.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

32.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

33.

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

Forbes, B. C.

34.

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

Aldus Manutius

35.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

36.

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Forbes, B. C.

38.

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

Ford, Henry

39.

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

40.

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

Riorio

41.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

42.

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

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

46.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

47.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

49.

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.

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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