Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Jurgen Schrempp

Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Nevill, Dorothy

10.

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

Hawken, Paul

11.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

12.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

13.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

17.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

18.

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

19.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

23.

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

Knudsen, William

24.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

25.

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

Bond, Alan

26.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

27.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

28.

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.

29.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

30.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

31.

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

32.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

33.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

34.

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

Malek, Fred

35.

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

36.

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

37.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

38.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

40.

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

Manzi, Jim

41.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

42.

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

Oscar Wilde

43.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

44.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

47.

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

Kiam, Victor

48.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

49.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

50.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam