Motivational Quotes

Business

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

- Thomas, Dylan

Best Quotes about Business

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Morley, John

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

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Geneen, Harold S.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

Barzan, Gerald

10.

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

11.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

12.

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

Wang, An

13.

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

14.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

18.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

19.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

20.

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

21.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

22.

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

Field, Marshall

23.

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

Welch, John

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

27.

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

28.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

29.

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

30.

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

31.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Coke, Sir Edward

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

37.

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

Collins, Nathan

38.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

39.

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

40.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

41.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

42.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

43.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

44.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

45.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

46.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

47.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

48.

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

49.

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

Iacocca, Lee

50.

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