Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Geneen, Harold S.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

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

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

Walton, Sam

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

Ford, Henry

10.

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

11.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

12.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

15.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

16.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

17.

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

18.

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

Aldus Manutius

19.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

20.

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

Galvin, Robert

21.

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

Revson, Charles

22.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

23.

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

24.

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

Adolt, H. V.

25.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

26.

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.

27.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

28.

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

Field, Marshall

29.

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

30.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

31.

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

Little, Royal

32.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

33.

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

Jacobs, Randall

34.

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

David Letterman

35.

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

Cathcart, Jim

36.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

37.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

38.

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

39.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

40.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

41.

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

42.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Welch, John

46.

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

47.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

48.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

49.

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

50.

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