Motivational Quotes

Business

Business is a combination of war and sport.

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Business

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

10.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

11.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

12.

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

13.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

14.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

15.

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.

16.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

17.

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

Proverb, German

18.

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

19.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

20.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

21.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

22.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

23.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

24.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

25.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

26.

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

Little, Royal

27.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

28.

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

John Cleese

29.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

34.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

35.

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

36.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

37.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Iacocca, Lee

41.

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

42.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

43.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

44.

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

45.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

46.

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

Armour, P. D.

47.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

48.

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