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

Hook, Harold

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

Collins, Nathan

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

Nevill, Dorothy

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

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

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Riklis, Meshulam

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

10.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

11.

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

Jacobs, Randall

12.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

13.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

14.

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

Oscar Wilde

15.

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.

16.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

17.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

18.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

19.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Forbes, B. C.

23.

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Revson, Charles

28.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

29.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

30.

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

31.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

33.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

Ogilvy, David

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Ovid

39.

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

40.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

41.

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

42.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

43.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

44.

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

Perot, H. Ross

45.

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

Galvin, Robert

46.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

47.

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

Kiam, Victor

48.

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

Field, Marshall

49.

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

50.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An