Motivational Quotes

Business

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

- John Cleese

Best Quotes about Business

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

Dane, Frank

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

Morley, John

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

Geneen, Harold S.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

10.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

11.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

12.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

13.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

14.

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

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

Ford, Henry

16.

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

Proverb, German

17.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

18.

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

Ogilvy, David

19.

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

Kiam, Victor

20.

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

Field, Marshall

21.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

22.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

23.

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

Armour, P. D.

24.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

25.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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.

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

Iacocca, Lee

28.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

29.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

30.

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

Rena, Peter

31.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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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

33.

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

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

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

Blair, Tony

36.

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

37.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

38.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

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.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.