Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Business

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

Barzan, Gerald

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.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

10.

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

Tara Hunt

11.

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.

12.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

14.

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

Rena, Peter

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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

16.

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

Ogilvy, David

17.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

18.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

19.

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

20.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

21.

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

Oscar Wilde

22.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

23.

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

Branson, Richard

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Little, Royal

27.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

28.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

29.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

30.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

36.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

37.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

41.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

42.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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

44.

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

Galvin, Robert

45.

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles