Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Rena, Peter

Best Quotes about Business

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Bond, Alan

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Brown, Derby

A hard thing about business is minding your own

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

10.

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

Dickens, Charles

11.

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

Perot, H. Ross

12.

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.

13.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

14.

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

Cathcart, Jim

15.

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

16.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

17.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

18.

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

19.

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

20.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

24.

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

25.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

26.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

27.

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

28.

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

Ogilvy, David

29.

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

30.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

31.

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

Ogilvy, David

32.

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.

33.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

34.

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

Blair, Tony

35.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

36.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

37.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

38.

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

39.

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

Iacocca, Lee

40.

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

George Ade

41.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

42.

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

Forbes, B. C.

43.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

44.

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.

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

Armour, P. D.

46.

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

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

49.

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

50.

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

Morley, John