Motivational Quotes

Business

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

- Henderson, Bruce

Best Quotes about Business

1.

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

Adolt, H. V.

2.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

3.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

4.

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

Cathcart, Jim

5.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

6.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

7.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

8.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

9.

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

Hawken, Paul

10.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

11.

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

12.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

13.

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

14.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

16.

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

17.

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

George Ade

18.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

19.

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

Brown, Derby

20.

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

21.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

22.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

23.

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

Proverb, German

24.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

25.

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

Patterson, John H.

26.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

27.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

28.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

29.

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

30.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

31.

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

Mitchell Caplan

32.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

33.

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

Dane, Frank

34.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

35.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

36.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

37.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

38.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

39.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

40.

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

41.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

42.

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

43.

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

Iacocca, Lee