Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

1.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

2.

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

Bond, Alan

3.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

4.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

5.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

6.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

7.

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

Rena, Peter

8.

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

Shakespeare, William

9.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

11.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

12.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

13.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

14.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

15.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

16.

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

Dickens, Charles

17.

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

18.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

19.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

21.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

22.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, American

25.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

26.

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

27.

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

Basinger, Kim

28.

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

29.

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

30.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

31.

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

Hook, Harold

32.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

33.

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.

34.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

35.

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

Forbes, B. C.

36.

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

Cathcart, Jim

37.

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.

38.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

39.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

42.

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

43.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

44.

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

Bean, L.L.

45.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

46.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

47.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

48.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

49.

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

Revson, Charles

50.

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

Walton, Sam