Motivational Quotes

Business

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

- Gilbey, Walter

Best Quotes about Business

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

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

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

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

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

10.

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

Ford, Henry

11.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

12.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

13.

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

Revson, Charles

14.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

15.

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

Dane, Frank

16.

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

Buffett, Warren

17.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

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.

19.

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.

20.

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

Riorio

21.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

22.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

23.

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

24.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

25.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

26.

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.

27.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

28.

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

29.

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

Branson, Richard

30.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

31.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

32.

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

Proverb

33.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

34.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

35.

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

36.

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

Galvin, Robert

37.

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

Armour, P. D.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

44.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

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

Wilde, Oscar

47.

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

Hawken, Paul

48.

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

Wang, An

49.

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

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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