Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Brown, Derby

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

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

Dane, Frank

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

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

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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

10.

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

11.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

12.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

13.

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

Barzan, Gerald

14.

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

Little, Royal

15.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

16.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

Galvin, Robert

22.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

23.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

24.

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

Forbes, B. C.

25.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

26.

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

Bean, L.L.

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

28.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

29.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

30.

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

Manzi, Jim

31.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

33.

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.

34.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

35.

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

Forbes, B. C.

36.

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

37.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

38.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

39.

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.

40.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

41.

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

Armour, P. D.

42.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

43.

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

Blair, Tony

44.

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

Basinger, Kim

45.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Riorio

47.

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

48.

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.

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

Grove, Andrew