Motivational Quotes

Business

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

- Jacobs, Randall

Best Quotes about Business

1.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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

Wang, An

3.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

4.

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

Buffett, Warren

5.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

6.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

7.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

8.

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

9.

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

Knudsen, William

10.

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

Kiam, Victor

11.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

15.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

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

Iacocca, Lee

17.

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

Ovid

18.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

19.

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

20.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

21.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

22.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

23.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

24.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

29.

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.

30.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

31.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

32.

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

Barzan, Gerald

33.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

34.

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

George Ade

35.

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

Hawken, Paul

36.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

37.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

38.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

39.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

40.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

41.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

42.

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

43.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

44.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

45.

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

Manzi, Jim

46.

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