Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Shakespeare, William

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

11.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

12.

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

Iacocca, Lee

13.

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

14.

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

Dane, Frank

15.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

16.

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

17.

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

Rena, Peter

18.

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

19.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

20.

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

Branson, Richard

21.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

22.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

23.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

24.

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

25.

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

Collins, Nathan

26.

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

27.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

28.

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

Jacobs, Randall

29.

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

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.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

32.

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

Walton, Sam

33.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

34.

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

Hook, Harold

35.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

36.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

37.

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

Thomas, Dylan

38.

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

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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.

40.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

42.

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

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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

44.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

45.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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

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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

49.

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

Warren Buffett

50.

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