Motivational Quotes

Business

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

- Woolworth, F. W.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

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

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.

Mcgovern, William

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

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

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

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

10.

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

11.

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

Forbes, B. C.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

15.

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

16.

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

Basinger, Kim

17.

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

Kiam, Victor

18.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

20.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

21.

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

Malek, Fred

22.

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

Brown, Derby

23.

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.

24.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

25.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

26.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

Ogilvy, David

28.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

29.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

30.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

31.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

32.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

33.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

34.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

35.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

36.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

37.

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.

38.

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

Ogilvy, David

39.

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

40.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

41.

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

Buffett, Warren

42.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

43.

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

44.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

45.

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

46.

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

Forbes, B. C.

47.

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

Welch, John

48.

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

Armour, P. D.

49.

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

50.

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