Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Wang, An

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Tara Hunt

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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

David Letterman

13.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

14.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

15.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

16.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

17.

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

Brown, Derby

18.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

19.

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

20.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

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

22.

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

Forbes, B. C.

23.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

24.

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

Ford, Henry

25.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

26.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

28.

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

29.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

30.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

31.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

32.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

33.

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.

34.

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

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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.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

37.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

38.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Leavitt, Theodore

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

Field, Marshall

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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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

48.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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The chief business of the American people is business.