Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Walton, Sam

Best Quotes about Business

1.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

2.

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

Ford, Henry

3.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

4.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

5.

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

Wilde, Oscar

6.

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

7.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

8.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

9.

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

Tara Hunt

10.

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

11.

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

12.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

13.

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

Dane, Frank

14.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

15.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

16.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

17.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

18.

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

19.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

20.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

21.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

22.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

23.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

24.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

27.

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

Proverb

28.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

29.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

30.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

31.

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

32.

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

Forbes, B. C.

33.

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

34.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

35.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

36.

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

Wang, An

37.

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

38.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

41.

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

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.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

44.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

45.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

46.

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