Motivational Quotes

Business

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

- Stuart, Edwin H.

Best Quotes about Business

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.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Proverb, American

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

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

Riorio

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

10.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

11.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

12.

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.

13.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

14.

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

15.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

16.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

20.

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

21.

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

22.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

23.

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

24.

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

25.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

27.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

28.

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.

29.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

30.

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

31.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

32.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

33.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

34.

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

35.

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

36.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

37.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

38.

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

Armour, P. D.

39.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

40.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

41.

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

Field, Marshall

42.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

43.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

44.

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

Perot, H. Ross

45.

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

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

48.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

49.

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.

50.

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

Geneen, Harold S.