Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Beene, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Business

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Basinger, Kim

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

A hard thing about business is minding your own

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Ford, Henry

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

10.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

11.

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.

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.

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

14.

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

Rena, Peter

15.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

16.

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

17.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

18.

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

Iacocca, Lee

19.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

20.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

21.

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

Forbes, B. C.

22.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

23.

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

George Ade

24.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

25.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

26.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

27.

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

28.

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

Grove, Andrew

29.

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

Branson, Richard

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Ovid

33.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

34.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

35.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

36.

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

Barzan, Gerald

37.

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.

38.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

39.

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

Aldus Manutius

40.

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

Galvin, Robert

41.

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

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

43.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

44.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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

John Cleese

47.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

48.

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

49.

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

Dickens, Charles

50.

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