Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Mophatlane, Isaac

Best Quotes about Business

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

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

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

Proverb, German

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

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

10.

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

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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

12.

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

Welch, John

13.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

14.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

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

Oscar Wilde

16.

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

17.

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

Blair, Tony

18.

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

19.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

20.

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

Rena, Peter

21.

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

Cathcart, Jim

22.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

24.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

28.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

29.

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

Ogilvy, David

30.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

31.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

32.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

33.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

34.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

35.

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

John Cleese

36.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

37.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

38.

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

Basinger, Kim

39.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

40.

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

41.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

42.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

43.

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

Jacobs, Randall

44.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

45.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

46.

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

47.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

48.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

49.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

50.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross