Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Kashoggi, Adnan

Best Quotes about Business

1.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

2.

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

3.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

4.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

5.

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

Manzi, Jim

6.

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

Cathcart, Jim

7.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

8.

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

Hook, Harold

9.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

10.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

11.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

12.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

16.

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

17.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

18.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

19.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

20.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

21.

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

22.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

23.

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

24.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

25.

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

Warren Buffett

26.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Grove, Andrew

30.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

34.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

35.

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

36.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

37.

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

Branson, Richard

38.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

39.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

40.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

41.

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

Dane, Frank

42.

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

Field, Marshall

43.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

44.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

45.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

46.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

47.

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

Iacocca, Lee

48.

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

Dickens, Charles

49.

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

50.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor