Motivational Quotes

Business

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

- Grove, Andrew

Best Quotes about Business

1.

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

Hawken, Paul

2.

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.

3.

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

Adolt, H. V.

4.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

5.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

6.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

7.

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

Ovid

8.

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

Armour, P. D.

9.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

10.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

11.

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

Walton, Sam

12.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

13.

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

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

16.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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.

18.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

19.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

22.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

23.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

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

Patterson, John H.

25.

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

Bond, Alan

26.

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

27.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

28.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

29.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

30.

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

Galvin, Robert

31.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

32.

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

33.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

34.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

35.

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

36.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

37.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

38.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

39.

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

40.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

41.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

42.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

43.

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