Motivational Quotes

Business

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

- Seth Godin

Best Quotes about Business

1.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

2.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

3.

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

Jacobs, Randall

4.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

5.

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

Branson, Richard

6.

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.

7.

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

8.

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

Hawken, Paul

9.

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

Wang, An

10.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

11.

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

Oscar Wilde

12.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

13.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

14.

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

Ogilvy, David

15.

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.

16.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

17.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

18.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

19.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

20.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

21.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

22.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

23.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

24.

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

Field, Marshall

25.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

26.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

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

Barzan, Gerald

28.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

29.

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

Forbes, B. C.

30.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

31.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

32.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

35.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

36.

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

37.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

38.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

39.

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

40.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

41.

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.

42.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

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

44.

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

Revson, Charles

45.

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

Dickens, Charles

46.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

47.

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