Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Welch, John

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Cardenas, Ruben

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

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

Buffett, Warren

10.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

11.

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

Cathcart, Jim

12.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

13.

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

14.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

15.

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

Basinger, Kim

16.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

17.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

18.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

24.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

25.

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

Brown, Derby

26.

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.

27.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

28.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

29.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

30.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

31.

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

32.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

33.

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

34.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

35.

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

Adolt, H. V.

36.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

37.

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

Ford, Henry

38.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

39.

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

40.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

41.

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.

42.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

43.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

44.

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

Forbes, B. C.

45.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

46.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

48.

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

Collins, Nathan

49.

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

50.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter