Motivational Quotes

Business

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Blair, Tony

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

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

10.

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

Forbes, B. C.

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Grove, Andrew

14.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

15.

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

16.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

17.

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

Ogilvy, David

18.

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

Iacocca, Lee

19.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

20.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

21.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

22.

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

Branson, Richard

23.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

24.

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

25.

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

26.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

27.

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

28.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

29.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

30.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

31.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

32.

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

Tara Hunt

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.

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

35.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

36.

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

37.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

38.

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

Warren Buffett

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Welch, John

42.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

43.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

44.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

45.

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

Riorio

46.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

50.

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

Dane, Frank