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

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Little, Royal

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

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

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

Welch, John

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

10.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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.

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

Jacobs, Randall

13.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

14.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

16.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

17.

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

18.

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

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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

20.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

23.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

24.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

25.

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

Ford, Henry

26.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

27.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

28.

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

Buffett, Warren

29.

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

30.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Forbes, B. C.

32.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

33.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

34.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Mitchell Caplan

37.

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

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

Hook, Harold

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

Dickens, Charles

40.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

41.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

44.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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