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

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

George Ade

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

Welch, John

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

John Cleese

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

10.

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

Dane, Frank

11.

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

12.

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

Grove, Andrew

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

16.

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

17.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

18.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

19.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

20.

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

21.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

22.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

23.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

28.

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

29.

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

Bond, Alan

30.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

31.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

32.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

33.

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.

34.

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

David Letterman

35.

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

Wilde, Oscar

36.

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

Ovid

37.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

38.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

41.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

45.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

46.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

47.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

48.

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.

49.

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

Galvin, Robert

50.

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