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

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

Branson, Richard

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

Galvin, Robert

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

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

Welch, John

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

10.

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

Little, Royal

11.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Buffett, Warren

16.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

17.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

19.

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

20.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

21.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

22.

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

Tara Hunt

23.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

24.

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

Warren Buffett

25.

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

26.

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

Manzi, Jim

27.

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

Jacobs, Randall

28.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

29.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

30.

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.

31.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

32.

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

Ogilvy, David

33.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

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

35.

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

Grove, Andrew

36.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

38.

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

Thomas, Dylan

39.

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

40.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

41.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.