Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Hawken, Paul

Best Quotes about Business

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

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

Proverb, American

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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.

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

10.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

11.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

13.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

14.

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

Ogilvy, David

15.

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

16.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

17.

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

18.

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

Ford, Henry

19.

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

Perot, H. Ross

20.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

21.

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

Rena, Peter

22.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

23.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

24.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

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

26.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

27.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

28.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

29.

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

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

32.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

33.

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

34.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

35.

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

Bond, Alan

36.

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

Bean, L.L.

37.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

38.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

39.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

40.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

41.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.