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

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

Dickens, Charles

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Basinger, Kim

10.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Thomas, Dylan

12.

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.

13.

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

Morley, John

14.

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

Ogilvy, David

15.

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

Perot, H. Ross

16.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

17.

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

Galvin, Robert

18.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

19.

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

20.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

21.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

22.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

23.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

24.

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

Little, Royal

25.

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

26.

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

27.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

28.

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

George Ade

29.

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

Buffett, Warren

30.

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

Rena, Peter

31.

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

Wang, An

32.

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

33.

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

Tara Hunt

34.

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

Jacobs, Randall

35.

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

36.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

37.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

38.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

43.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

44.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

47.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

48.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

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

Warren Buffett

50.

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