Motivational Quotes

Business

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Business

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Warren Buffett

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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.

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.

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

10.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

11.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

13.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

14.

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

15.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

16.

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

17.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

18.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

Ovid

23.

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

Iacocca, Lee

24.

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

Branson, Richard

25.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

26.

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

Malek, Fred

27.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

28.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

29.

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

30.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

31.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

33.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

34.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

35.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

36.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

37.

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

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

39.

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

Armour, P. D.

40.

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

Ford, Henry

41.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

42.

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

43.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

45.

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

Little, Royal

46.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

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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.

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

Blair, Tony

50.

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