Motivational Quotes

Business

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

- Kroc, Ray

Best Quotes about Business

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Grove, Andrew

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

Ovid

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Brown, Derby

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

David Letterman

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

Ford, Henry

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

10.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

11.

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

Bond, Alan

12.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

13.

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

Walton, Sam

14.

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

Forbes, B. C.

15.

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

Cathcart, Jim

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Buffett, Warren

20.

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

Thomas, Dylan

21.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

22.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

23.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

24.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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.

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

27.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

28.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

29.

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

Ford, Henry

30.

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

Welch, John

31.

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

Kiam, Victor

32.

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

33.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

34.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

36.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

37.

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

38.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

39.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

40.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

41.

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

42.

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

Hook, Harold

43.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

44.

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

45.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

46.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

47.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

48.

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

49.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

50.

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