Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Warren Buffett

Best Quotes about Business

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

Welch, John

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

Ford, Henry

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

10.

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

11.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

12.

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.

13.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

14.

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

15.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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.

17.

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

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

20.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

Barzan, Gerald

24.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

28.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

29.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

30.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

31.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

32.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

33.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

34.

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

35.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

36.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

37.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

38.

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

39.

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

40.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

41.

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

Cathcart, Jim

42.

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

Hook, Harold

43.

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

44.

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

David Letterman

45.

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

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

48.

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

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.