Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Riorio

Best Quotes about Business

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

Branson, Richard

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

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

Riorio

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Buffett, Warren

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

10.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

11.

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

12.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

13.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

14.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

15.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

16.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

17.

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

18.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

19.

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

Patterson, John H.

20.

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

Forbes, B. C.

21.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

26.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

30.

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

Dickens, Charles

31.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

32.

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

Ford, Henry

33.

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

Wang, An

34.

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

35.

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

Bond, Alan

36.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

37.

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

Barzan, Gerald

38.

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

Grove, Andrew

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

41.

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

Perot, H. Ross

42.

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

Warren Buffett

43.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

44.

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

Ogilvy, David

45.

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

46.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

47.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

48.

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

49.

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

Little, Royal

50.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.