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

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

Rena, Peter

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

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

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

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

12.

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

13.

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

Revson, Charles

14.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

15.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

16.

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

17.

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

18.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

19.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

24.

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.

25.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

26.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

27.

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

Perot, H. Ross

28.

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

29.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

30.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

31.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

32.

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

Wilde, Oscar

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

36.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

37.

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

38.

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

Wang, An

39.

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

John Cleese

40.

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

41.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

42.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

46.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

47.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

48.

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