Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Business

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Blair, Tony

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

Malek, Fred

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

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

Hook, Harold

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

10.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

11.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

12.

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.

13.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

14.

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

Cathcart, Jim

15.

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

Wang, An

16.

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

17.

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

Ovid

18.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

19.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

20.

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

21.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

22.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

23.

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

Rena, Peter

24.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

25.

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

26.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

27.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

28.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Forbes, B. C.

30.

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

Hawken, Paul

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

34.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

35.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

36.

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

37.

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

Jacobs, Randall

38.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

39.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

40.

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

Iacocca, Lee

41.

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

Bean, L.L.

42.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

43.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

44.

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.

45.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

46.

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

47.

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

48.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

49.

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

Bond, Alan

50.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas