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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Hook, Harold

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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.

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

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

Proverb, American

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

10.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

11.

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

12.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

13.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

14.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

15.

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

16.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

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

Bean, L.L.

18.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

19.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

20.

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

Ogilvy, David

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

24.

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

Thomas, Dylan

25.

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

26.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

27.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

30.

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

Adolt, H. V.

31.

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

Warren Buffett

32.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

33.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

34.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

35.

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

36.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

39.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

40.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

41.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

42.

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

43.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

44.

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

45.

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

Malek, Fred

46.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

47.

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

Ford, Henry

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