Motivational Quotes

Business

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

- Little, Royal

Best Quotes about Business

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Warren Buffett

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

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Blair, Tony

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

Brown, Derby

10.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

11.

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.

12.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

13.

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

Basinger, Kim

14.

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

15.

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

Walton, Sam

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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

17.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

18.

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

Knudsen, William

19.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

20.

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

Cathcart, Jim

21.

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

Ogilvy, David

22.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

23.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

24.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

25.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

26.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

27.

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

Proverb

28.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

29.

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

Galvin, Robert

30.

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

31.

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

Iacocca, Lee

32.

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

Armour, P. D.

33.

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

35.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

36.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

37.

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

John Cleese

38.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

39.

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

40.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

41.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

44.

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

45.

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

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