Motivational Quotes

Business

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Blair, Tony

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

Barzan, Gerald

10.

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

11.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

12.

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

13.

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

Ogilvy, David

14.

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

Forbes, B. C.

15.

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

16.

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

Iacocca, Lee

17.

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

Buffett, Warren

18.

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

19.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

20.

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

21.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

22.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

23.

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

Grove, Andrew

24.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

25.

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.

26.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

27.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

28.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

29.

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

30.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

31.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

35.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb, American

38.

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

Ford, Henry

39.

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

40.

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

Warren Buffett

41.

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

Cathcart, Jim

42.

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

43.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

Welch, John

46.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

47.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

48.

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

49.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

50.

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

Kiam, Victor