Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Jurgen Schrempp

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

13.

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

14.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

15.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

16.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Proverb, German

18.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

19.

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

20.

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

21.

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

22.

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

Oscar Wilde

23.

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

Revson, Charles

24.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

25.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

26.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

27.

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

Thomas, Dylan

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

32.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

33.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

34.

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

35.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

36.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

37.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

38.

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

39.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

Hawken, Paul

44.

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

Barzan, Gerald

45.

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

Branson, Richard

46.

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

47.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

48.

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

Ford, Henry

49.

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

Hook, Harold

50.

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