Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Wilson, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

10.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

14.

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

Ogilvy, David

15.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

16.

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

Ogilvy, David

17.

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

18.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

19.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

20.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

22.

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

23.

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

Hook, Harold

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

28.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

29.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

33.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

35.

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

Forbes, B. C.

36.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

37.

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.

38.

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

Proverb, German

39.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

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

41.

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

Galvin, Robert

42.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

47.

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

John Cleese

48.

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

49.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

50.

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.