Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Rena, Peter

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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.

10.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

13.

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

14.

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

John Cleese

15.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

16.

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

17.

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.

18.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

19.

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

20.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

21.

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

22.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

23.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

24.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

27.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

28.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

29.

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

Ogilvy, David

30.

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

Brown, Derby

31.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

32.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

33.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

34.

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

35.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

36.

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

Cathcart, Jim

37.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

38.

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

39.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

41.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

George Ade

45.

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

Iacocca, Lee

46.

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

Morley, John

47.

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

48.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

49.

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

50.

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

Forbes, B. C.