Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Kiam, Victor

Best Quotes about Business

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

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

Malek, Fred

10.

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

11.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

12.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

13.

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

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

Grove, Andrew

15.

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

16.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

17.

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

18.

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

19.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

20.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

21.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

22.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

23.

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

24.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

25.

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

26.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

27.

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

Proverb

28.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

29.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

30.

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

Walton, Sam

31.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

32.

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

33.

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

34.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

35.

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

Basinger, Kim

36.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

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

Aldus Manutius

38.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

40.

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.

41.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

42.

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

43.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

44.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

45.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

46.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

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.

48.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

49.

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