Motivational Quotes

Business

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

Collins, Nathan

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Iacocca, Lee

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Branson, Richard

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.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

11.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

12.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

13.

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

Dane, Frank

14.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

15.

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

16.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

17.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

18.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

19.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

20.

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

21.

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

Brown, Derby

22.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

23.

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

24.

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

Wang, An

25.

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

26.

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

John Cleese

27.

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

Grove, Andrew

28.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

29.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

30.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

31.

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.

32.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

33.

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

34.

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

Aldus Manutius

35.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

36.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

37.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

38.

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

39.

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

40.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Rena, Peter

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

49.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.