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

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

Riorio

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Wang, An

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Brown, Derby

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

10.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

11.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Ford, Henry

15.

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

Perot, H. Ross

16.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

17.

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

18.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

19.

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

Kiam, Victor

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Warren Buffett

23.

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

Ogilvy, David

24.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

25.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

26.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

27.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

28.

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

29.

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

Galvin, Robert

30.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

31.

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

32.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

33.

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

34.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

41.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

42.

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

Cathcart, Jim

43.

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

Ford, Henry

44.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

45.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

46.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

47.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

48.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

49.

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

50.

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

John Cleese