Motivational Quotes

Business

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Business

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

Field, Marshall

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

Wilson, Charles E.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Basinger, Kim

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

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Onassis, Aristotle

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

10.

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

Ford, Henry

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Ford, Henry

14.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

15.

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

Warren Buffett

16.

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

Aldus Manutius

17.

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

Riorio

18.

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

19.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

20.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

21.

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

22.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

24.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

25.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

26.

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

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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

28.

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

George Ade

29.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Walton, Sam

31.

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

Revson, Charles

32.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

33.

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

34.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

35.

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

36.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

37.

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

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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

39.

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

40.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

41.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

42.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

43.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

44.

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

45.

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

Dickens, Charles

46.

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

Blair, Tony

47.

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

Ovid

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.