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

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

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

Coke, Sir Edward

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

10.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

11.

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.

12.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

13.

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

Brown, Derby

14.

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

15.

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

16.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

17.

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.

18.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

19.

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

David Letterman

20.

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

George Ade

21.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

22.

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

Perot, H. Ross

23.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

24.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

25.

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

27.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

28.

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

Malek, Fred

29.

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

Hook, Harold

30.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

31.

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

Jacobs, Randall

32.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

33.

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

Kiam, Victor

34.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

35.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

36.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

37.

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

Tara Hunt

38.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

39.

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

Dane, Frank

40.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

41.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

43.

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

44.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

45.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

46.

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

Grove, Andrew

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

50.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge