Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

2.

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

Aldus Manutius

3.

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

4.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

5.

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

Tara Hunt

6.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

7.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

8.

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

Ogilvy, David

9.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

10.

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

Malek, Fred

11.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

14.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

15.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

16.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

17.

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

Oscar Wilde

18.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

19.

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

Riorio

20.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

21.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

22.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

23.

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

Bond, Alan

24.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

25.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

26.

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

27.

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

Knudsen, William

28.

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

29.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

30.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

31.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

32.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

33.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

34.

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

Thomas, Dylan

35.

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

36.

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

37.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

38.

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

Buffett, Warren

39.

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

40.

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

Armour, P. D.

41.

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.

42.

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

Dickens, Charles

43.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

46.

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

Manzi, Jim

47.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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

Hawken, Paul