Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

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

Proverb, American

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Shakespeare, William

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

10.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

11.

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

12.

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

Ogilvy, David

13.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

14.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

15.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

16.

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

Blair, Tony

17.

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

Ford, Henry

18.

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

19.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

20.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

21.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

22.

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

23.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

24.

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

Forbes, B. C.

25.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

26.

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

27.

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

George Ade

28.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

29.

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

30.

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

31.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

32.

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

33.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

35.

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

Rena, Peter

36.

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

Ford, Henry

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

41.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

42.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

43.

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

Bond, Alan

44.

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

45.

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

Knudsen, William

46.

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

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

Manzi, Jim

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