Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Grove, Andrew

Best Quotes about Business

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Walton, Sam

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

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

Dane, Frank

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Revson, Charles

10.

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

11.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

12.

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

13.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

18.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

19.

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

George Ade

20.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

21.

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

Ogilvy, David

22.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

23.

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

Ovid

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

28.

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

29.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

31.

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

Wang, An

32.

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

33.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Manzi, Jim

36.

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