Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Business

1.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

2.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

3.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

4.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

5.

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

Grove, Andrew

6.

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

7.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

8.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

9.

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

Barzan, Gerald

10.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

11.

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

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.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

14.

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

15.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

16.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

17.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

20.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

21.

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

Knudsen, William

22.

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

Armour, P. D.

23.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

24.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

25.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

26.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

27.

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

28.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

29.

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

Blair, Tony

30.

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

31.

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

32.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

33.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

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

35.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

36.

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

37.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

38.

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

39.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

40.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

41.

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

Wang, An

42.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

43.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

44.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

45.

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

Warren Buffett

46.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

It's the economy, stupid.