Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Mcnealy, Scott

Best Quotes about Business

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

10.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

11.

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

12.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

13.

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

14.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

15.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Wang, An

17.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

18.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

19.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

20.

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

21.

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

22.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

23.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

28.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Rena, Peter

32.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

33.

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

34.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

35.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

36.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

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

Grove, Andrew

38.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

40.

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

George Ade

41.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.