Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Hawken, Paul

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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.

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

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

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

10.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

13.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

14.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

15.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Ford, Henry

19.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

20.

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

Ovid

21.

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

Galvin, Robert

22.

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

Revson, Charles

23.

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

Iacocca, Lee

24.

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

25.

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

26.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

27.

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

28.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

29.

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

Knudsen, William

30.

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

Barzan, Gerald

31.

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

Dane, Frank

32.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

33.

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

Field, Marshall

34.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

35.

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.

36.

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

Ogilvy, David

37.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

38.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

39.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

40.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

41.

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

Iacocca, Lee

42.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

47.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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

49.

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

Armour, P. D.

50.

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