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

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.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

10.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

11.

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

George Ade

12.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

13.

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

14.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

15.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

17.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

20.

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

21.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

22.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

23.

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

Ogilvy, David

24.

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

25.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

26.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

27.

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

28.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

29.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

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

Tara Hunt

31.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

32.

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

Galvin, Robert

33.

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

34.

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

Warren Buffett

35.

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

Proverb, American

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

Bean, L.L.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

42.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

43.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

44.

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

Bond, Alan

45.

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

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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.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

48.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.