Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Hawken, Paul

Best Quotes about Business

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

Rena, Peter

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

13.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

14.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

15.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

16.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

17.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

18.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

19.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

21.

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

22.

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

Patterson, John H.

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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.

24.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

25.

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

26.

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

Forbes, B. C.

27.

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

Ovid

28.

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

Wang, An

29.

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

Iacocca, Lee

30.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

32.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

33.

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

Ford, Henry

34.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

35.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

36.

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

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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

38.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

39.

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

Kiam, Victor

40.

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

41.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

44.

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

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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

Walton, Sam

46.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Knudsen, William

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

50.

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