Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Morley, John

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Collins, Nathan

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Grove, Andrew

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.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

10.

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

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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.

13.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

14.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

17.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

18.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

19.

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

20.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

21.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

22.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

23.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

24.

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

Armour, P. D.

25.

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

26.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

27.

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

28.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

29.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

30.

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

31.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

32.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

33.

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

Wang, An

34.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

35.

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

36.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

37.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

38.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

39.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

40.

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

Iacocca, Lee

41.

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

Proverb

42.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

43.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

44.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

45.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

46.

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

Proverb, German

47.

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

48.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

49.

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

50.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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