Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Business

1.

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

Bond, Alan

2.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

3.

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

Proverb

4.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

5.

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

Aldus Manutius

6.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

7.

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

8.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

9.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

10.

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.

11.

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

Ford, Henry

12.

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

Branson, Richard

13.

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

14.

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

Tara Hunt

15.

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

Cathcart, Jim

16.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

17.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

18.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

19.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

20.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

21.

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

David Letterman

22.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

23.

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

George Ade

24.

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

25.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

26.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

27.

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

Buffett, Warren

28.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

29.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

30.

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

31.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

32.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

33.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

34.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

35.

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

Warren Buffett

36.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

37.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

38.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

39.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

40.

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

Morley, John

41.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

42.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

43.

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

44.

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

Wang, An

45.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

46.

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

Welch, John

47.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

48.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

49.

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

50.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.