Motivational Quotes

Business

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

- Knudsen, William

Best Quotes about Business

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

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

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

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

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

Dane, Frank

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

Hook, Harold

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

12.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

17.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

18.

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

Ford, Henry

19.

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

Hawken, Paul

20.

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

Brown, Derby

21.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

22.

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

23.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

24.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Perot, H. Ross

30.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

31.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

32.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

33.

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

34.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

35.

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

36.

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

John Cleese

37.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

39.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

40.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

41.

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

Cathcart, Jim

42.

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

Walton, Sam

43.

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

Branson, Richard

44.

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.

45.

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

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

Field, Marshall

47.

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.

48.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

49.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

50.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul