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

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

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

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

Rena, Peter

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.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

10.

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

11.

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

Walton, Sam

12.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

13.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

14.

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

15.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

16.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

17.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

19.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

20.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

22.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

24.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

25.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

26.

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

27.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

28.

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

Malek, Fred

29.

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

George Ade

30.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

36.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Riorio

38.

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

Blair, Tony

39.

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.

40.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

41.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

42.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

43.

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

44.

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

Grove, Andrew

45.

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

Forbes, B. C.

46.

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

47.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Little, Royal