Motivational Quotes

Business

Get the best people and train them well.

- Merrill, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

10.

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

11.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

13.

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

Field, Marshall

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

19.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

20.

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

David Letterman

22.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

23.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

24.

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

Tara Hunt

25.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

26.

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.

27.

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

Thomas, Dylan

28.

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

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

Nevill, Dorothy

30.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

31.

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

32.

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

33.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

34.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

35.

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

Knudsen, William

36.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

37.

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

38.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

40.

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

41.

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

44.

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.

45.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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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

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

49.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

50.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee