Motivational Quotes

Business

Business is a combination of war and sport.

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Business

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

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

Riklis, Meshulam

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

10.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

11.

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

Grove, Andrew

12.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

13.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

14.

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

Warren Buffett

15.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

16.

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

Barzan, Gerald

17.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

18.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Ogilvy, David

20.

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

Dickens, Charles

21.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

22.

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

23.

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

Dane, Frank

24.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

25.

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

Blair, Tony

26.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

27.

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

28.

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

29.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

30.

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

31.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

32.

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

33.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

37.

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

38.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

39.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

40.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

41.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

42.

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

Wilde, Oscar

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

47.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

48.

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

Ford, Henry

49.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

50.

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