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

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

Iacocca, Lee

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Perot, H. Ross

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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

Basinger, Kim

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Branson, Richard

10.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

11.

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.

12.

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

Jacobs, Randall

13.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

14.

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

15.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

16.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

17.

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

Dickens, Charles

18.

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

Ford, Henry

19.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

20.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

21.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

22.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

23.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

24.

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

25.

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

Field, Marshall

26.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

27.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

28.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

29.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

31.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

32.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

33.

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

34.

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

Rena, Peter

35.

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

Dane, Frank

36.

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

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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

38.

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

Cathcart, Jim

39.

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

40.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

41.

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

John Cleese

42.

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

Proverb

43.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

44.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

45.

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

46.

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

47.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

48.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

49.

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

Aldus Manutius

50.

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