Motivational Quotes

Business

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

- Onassis, Aristotle

Best Quotes about Business

1.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

2.

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

3.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

4.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

5.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

6.

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

7.

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

Malek, Fred

8.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

9.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

10.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

11.

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

12.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

13.

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

14.

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

Iacocca, Lee

15.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

16.

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

Branson, Richard

17.

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

18.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

19.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

20.

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

George Ade

21.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

24.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

25.

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

Oscar Wilde

26.

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

Blair, Tony

27.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

28.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

29.

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

Ford, Henry

30.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

31.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

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

Forbes, B. C.

33.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

34.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

35.

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

Hook, Harold

36.

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

Rena, Peter

37.

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

38.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

39.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

40.

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

41.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

42.

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

43.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

44.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

45.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

46.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

48.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

49.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

50.

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

Hawken, Paul