Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

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

Blair, Tony

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

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

Warren Buffett

11.

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

12.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

15.

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

16.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

17.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

18.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Knudsen, William

20.

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

21.

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

Riorio

22.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

Jacobs, Randall

26.

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

Welch, John

27.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

28.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Grove, Andrew

32.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

Geneen, Harold S.

34.

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

35.

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

36.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

37.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

38.

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

Buffett, Warren

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Forbes, B. C.

42.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

43.

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

John Cleese

44.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.