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

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

Leavitt, Theodore

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Knudsen, William

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

10.

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

Riorio

11.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

12.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

13.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

14.

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

Warren Buffett

15.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

16.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

17.

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

Field, Marshall

18.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

19.

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

20.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

22.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

23.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

24.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

25.

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

Grove, Andrew

26.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

27.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

28.

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

29.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

30.

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

31.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

32.

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

Blair, Tony

33.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

34.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

35.

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

Cathcart, Jim

36.

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

37.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Little, Royal

42.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

43.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

47.

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.

48.

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

Hook, Harold

49.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

50.

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.