Motivational Quotes

Business

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

- Kroc, Ray

Best Quotes about Business

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Riorio

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Warren Buffett

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

Walton, Sam

10.

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

11.

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

12.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

13.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

14.

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

Oscar Wilde

15.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

16.

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

Proverb, American

17.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

Ford, Henry

21.

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

Jacobs, Randall

22.

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

23.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

24.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

25.

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

26.

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

Ogilvy, David

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

32.

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

33.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

37.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

38.

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

Wang, An

39.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

41.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

42.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

43.

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

44.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

45.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

46.

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

47.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Field, Marshall