Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Aldus Manutius

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

10.

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

Hook, Harold

11.

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

Ogilvy, David

12.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

13.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

14.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

17.

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

Ovid

18.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

19.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

20.

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.

21.

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

Branson, Richard

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

24.

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

Iacocca, Lee

25.

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

26.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

27.

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

Blair, Tony

28.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

29.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

30.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

31.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

35.

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

36.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

37.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

38.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

39.

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

40.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

41.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Brown, Derby

47.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

48.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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