Motivational Quotes

Business

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

- Harvey-Jones, John

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Aldus Manutius

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Malek, Fred

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

10.

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

11.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

12.

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

13.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

14.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

15.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

16.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

17.

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

Proverb, German

18.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

19.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

21.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

22.

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

Barzan, Gerald

23.

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

24.

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

Grove, Andrew

25.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

26.

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

Iacocca, Lee

27.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

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

Revson, Charles

29.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

30.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

31.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

32.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

33.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

34.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

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

36.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

41.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

42.

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

43.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

44.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

45.

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

46.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

47.

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

48.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

49.

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.

50.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew