Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Business

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

10.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

11.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Basinger, Kim

15.

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

16.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

17.

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

18.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

19.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

20.

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

21.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

22.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

23.

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

24.

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

Armour, P. D.

25.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

26.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

28.

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

29.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

30.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

31.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

32.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

33.

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

34.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

35.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

37.

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

Forbes, B. C.

38.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

39.

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

40.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

41.

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

42.

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

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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

44.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

45.

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

Barzan, Gerald

46.

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

Buffett, Warren

47.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William