Motivational Quotes

Business

Business is a combination of war and sport.

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Business

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

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

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

10.

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

11.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

12.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

13.

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

14.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

18.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

19.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

20.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

21.

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

David Letterman

22.

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

Bond, Alan

23.

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

24.

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

Rena, Peter

25.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Little, Royal

27.

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

28.

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

Cathcart, Jim

29.

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

Barzan, Gerald

30.

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

Ford, Henry

31.

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

32.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

33.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

35.

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

Walton, Sam

37.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

38.

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

40.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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.

47.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

48.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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.