Quote: There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
Author: Joseph Addison 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman
Quote: We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.
Author: H. V. Adolt
Quote: Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
Author: Fred A. Allen 1894-1957, American Radio Comic
Quote: Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
Author: P. D. Armour
Quote: Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.
Author: Joe Bamford American Business Executive
Quote: Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.
Author: Bernard M. Baruch 1870-1965, American Financier
Quote: Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
Author: Bernard M. Baruch 1870-1965, American Financier
Quote: Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be
Author: Gerald Barzan
Quote: I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
Author: Kim Basinger 1953-, American Actress
Quote: For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
Author: Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet
Quote: Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.
Author: Jean Baudrillard French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer
Quote: No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.
Author: L.L. Bean American Businessman, Founder of L.L Bean's
Quote: Business is more exciting than any game.
Author: Lord Beaverbrook British Minister
Quote: I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Author: Geoffrey Beene Fashion Designer
Quote: If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!
Author: William Bernbach 1911-1982, American Advertising Executive
Quote: Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Quote: I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
Author: Tony Blair 1953-, British Prime Minister
Quote: 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.
Author: William Blake 1757-1827, British Poet, Painter
Quote: Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
Author: Ken Blanchard American Business Lecturer, Author
Quote: Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
Author: Alan Bond Australian Entrepreneur
Quote: Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer
Quote: If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
Author: Richard Branson American Businessman, Chairman of The Virgin Group
Quote: I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
Author: Lee Bristol
Quote: The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.
Author: Derby Brown
Quote: If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Author: Warren Buffett 1930-, American Investment Entrepreneur
Quote: It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Author: Warren Buffett 1930-, American Investment Entrepreneur
Quote: It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Author: Edmund Burke 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman
Quote: What helps people, helps business.
Author: Leo Burnett American Marketing Expert
Quote: 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.
Author: M. Anthony Burns American Businessman, CEO of Ryder Systems
Quote: You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.
Author: Ruben Cardenas American Lawyer, Business Executive
Quote: 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
Author: Curtis Carlson American Businessman, Founder of Carlson Companies, Inc.
Quote: 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.
Author: Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer
Quote: More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
Author: Jim Cathcart American Author, Lecturer
Quote: 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.
Author: Harold Geneen Ceo
Quote: Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.
Author: Raymond Chandler 1888-1959, American Author
Quote: No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
Author: Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author
Quote: 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.
Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: It's the economy, stupid.
Author: Bill Clinton 1946-, Forty-second President of the USA
Quote: A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
Author: Harold Coffin
Quote: Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Author: Sir Edward Coke 1552-1634, British Jurist
Quote: The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
Author: Nathan Collins American Business Executive, VP of Valley National Bank
Quote: Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Author: Mason Cooley
Quote: The business of the country is business.
Author: Calvin Coolidge 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA
Quote: Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
Author: Edward Dahlberg 1900-1977, American Author, Critic
Quote: Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.
Author: Frank Dane
Quote: 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.
Author: Nicholas Dewolf American Businessman, Founder, Teradyne, Inc.
Quote: Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist
Quote: Location, location, location.
Author: William Dillard American Businessman, Founder of Dillard's Department Store
Quote: The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings. Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events. They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.
Author: Patrick Donovan British Financial Journalist
Quote: A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930, British Author, ''Sherlock Holmes''
Quote: You can't run a business without taking risks.
Author: Millard Drexler American Business Executive, President, The Gap
Quote: The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Author: Peter F. Drucker 1909-, American Management Consultant, Author
Quote: Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
Author: Peter F. Drucker 1909-, American Management Consultant, Author
Quote: Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.
Author: Alexandre Dumas 1802-1870, French Novelist, Dramatist
Quote: 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.
Author: Paul H. Dunn
Quote: Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.
Author: Ludwig Erhard German Politician
Quote: Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
Author: Marshall Field 1834-1906, American Merchant
Quote: 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.
Author: Harvey S. Firestone 1868-1938, American Industrialist
Quote: Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
Author: B. C. Forbes 1880-1954, American Publisher
Quote: If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.
Author: B. C. Forbes 1880-1954, American Publisher
Quote: Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
Author: Malcolm S. Forbes 1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman
Quote: A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Quote: Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Quote: 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.
Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Quote: It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Quote: It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.
Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Quote: 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.
Author: Nicola Foulston American Business Executive
Quote: 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?
Author: Erwin Frand
Quote: Drive your business, let not you're business drive you.
Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: 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.
Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: 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.
Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Author: Robert Galvin
Quote: I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.
Author: Harold S. Geneen 1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT
Quote: In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
Author: Harold S. Geneen 1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT
Quote: 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.
Author: Harold S. Geneen 1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT
Quote: It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
Author: Harold S. Geneen 1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT
Quote: The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Author: Harold S. Geneen 1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT
Quote: You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
Author: Harold S. Geneen 1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT
Quote: The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication
Author: Michael E. Gerber American Businessman, Consultant, Author, Trainer
Quote: I buy when other people are selling.
Author: J. Paul Getty 1892-1976, American Oil Tycoon, Billionaire
Quote: The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
Author: Walter Gilbey
Quote: Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright
Quote: Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright
Quote: Few great men could pass personal.
Author: Paul Goodman 1911-1972, American Author, Poet, Critic
Quote: Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
Author: Andrew Grove American, CEO of Intel
Quote: The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.
Author: Sir Matthew Hale 1609-1676, British Judge
Quote: 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.
Author: Charles Handy American Business Executive and Writer
Quote: Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that ''he profits most who serves best'' and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
Author: B. F. Harris
Quote: 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.
Author: John Harvey-Jones Business Writer and Executive
Quote: As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
Author: Paul Hawken American Businessman, Founder of Smith & Hawken
Quote: The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
Author: Bruce Henderson American Businessman, CEO of Boston Consulting Group
Quote: 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.
Author: Alexander Herzen 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker
Quote: The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
Author: Harold Hook American Businessman, CEO of American General
Quote: People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.
Author: Lee Iacocca 1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler
Quote: When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
Author: Lee Iacocca 1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler
Quote: There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
Author: Randall Jacobs
Quote: The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
Author: Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826, Third President of the USA
Quote: Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Author: Adnan Kashoggi
Quote: If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.
Author: Charles F. Kettering 1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor
Quote: When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.
Author: Nikita Khrushchev 1894-1971, Soviet Premier
Quote: Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Author: Victor Kiam American Businessman, CEO of Remington
Quote: You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.
Author: Victor Kiam American Businessman, CEO of Remington
Quote: In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
Author: William Knudsen Jr., Chairman, Ford Motor Company
Quote: In business for yourself, not by yourself.
Author: Ray Kroc 1902-1984, American businessman, Founder of McDonalds
Quote: The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
Author: Theodore Leavitt
Quote: A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.
Author: Gerald Stanley Lee
Quote: Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Author: Gerald Stanley Lee
Quote: 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.
Author: E. St. Elmo Lewis
Quote: The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
Author: Walter Lippmann 1889-1974, American Journalist
Quote: Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
Author: Royal Little American Businessman, Founder of Textron
Quote: Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Author: Henry Luce American Businessman, Founder of Time Life
Quote: If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.
Author: Louis B. Lundborg
Quote: We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.
Author: Fred Malek American Businessman, President of Marriott Hotels
Quote: Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Author: Jim Manzi American Businessman, President of Lotus Development
Quote: 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.
Author: Richard Marcinko American Business Author
Quote: Business is a combination of war and sport.
Author: Andre Maurois 1885-1967, French Writer
Quote: 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.
Author: William Mcgovern American Businessman, Founder of MCI
Quote: In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
Author: Scott Mcnealy American Businessman, CEO of Sun Microsystems
Quote: Get the best people and train them well.
Author: Charles Merrill American Businessman, Founder of Merrill Lynch
Quote: If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.
Author: Isaac Mophatlane
Quote: 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.
Author: John Pierpont Morgan 1837-1913, American Banker, Financier, Art Collector
Quote: The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
Author: John Morley 1838-1923, British Journalist, Biographer, Statesman
Quote: 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.
Author: Ren Mulford Jr.
Quote: The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.
Author: Dorothy Nevill
Quote: If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.
Author: David Ogilvy 1911-, American Businessman, Advertising Expert
Quote: Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.
Author: David Ogilvy 1911-, American Businessman, Advertising Expert
Quote: The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.
Author: David Ogilvy 1911-, American Businessman, Advertising Expert
Quote: The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
Author: David Ogilvy 1911-, American Businessman, Advertising Expert
Quote: You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.
Author: Kenneth Olsen American Businessman, Founder of Digital Equipment
Quote: Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickle when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.
Author: Aristotle Onassis 1906-1975, Turkish Born Shipping Magnate
Quote: The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Author: Aristotle Onassis 1906-1975, Turkish Born Shipping Magnate
Quote: One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.
Author: Anthony J. F. O'Reilly American Businessman, CEO of Heinz Foods
Quote: Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.
Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
Author: John H. Patterson American Businessman, Founder of National Cash Register
Quote: Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
Author: William Penn 1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania
Quote: Every business is built on friendship.
Author: J. C. (James Cash) Penney 1875-1971, American Retailer, Philanthropist, Founder JC Penny's
Quote: Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
Author: H. Ross Perot 1930-, American Businessman & Politician, Founder EDS
Quote: If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
Author: H. Ross Perot 1930-, American Businessman & Politician, Founder EDS
Quote: The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Author: Thomas J. Peters 1942-, American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer
Quote: Far too many executives have become more concerned with the ''four P's'' -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.
Author: T. Boone Pickens American Businessman, Chairman of Mesa Petroleum
Quote: The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
Author: Titus Maccius Plautus BC 254-184, Roman Comic Poet
Quote: 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.
Author: Lew Pritchett American Business Executive, VP Sales, Procter & Gamble
Quote: When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.
Author: Proverb
Quote: Cut your losses and let your profits run.
Author: American Proverb Sayings of American Origin
Quote: In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.
Author: American Proverb Sayings of American Origin
Quote: Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.
Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: Work is our business; it's success is God s.
Author: German Proverb Sayings of German Origin
Quote: The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
Author: Ronald Reagan 1911-, Fortieth President of the USA, Actor
Quote: Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
Author: Peter Rena
Quote: In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.
Author: Charles Revson American Businessman, Chairman of Revlon
Quote: The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.
Author: Meshulam Riklis
Quote: You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.
Author: Riorio
Quote: 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.
Author: Cesar Ritz
Quote: Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.
Author: Steven J. Ross American Businessman, CEO of Time Warner
Quote: I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
Author: Sir Nathan Rothschild 1910-, British Administrator
Quote: In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
Author: T. L. Scrutton
Quote: To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.
Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Author: Adam Smith 1723-1790, Scottish Economist
Quote: Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.
Author: Roger Smith American Businessman, CEO of GM
Quote: Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist
Quote: Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
Author: Edwin H. Stuart
Quote: Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
Author: Dylan Thomas 1914-1953, Welsh Poet
Quote: 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.
Author: Robert Townsend American Businessman, President of Avis
Quote: 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?
Author: Robert Townsend American Businessman, President of Avis
Quote: Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.
Author: Robert Townsend American Businessman, President of Avis
Quote: 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.
Author: Donald Trump 1946-, American Businessman
Quote: A hard thing about business is minding your own
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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.
Author: Sam Walton 1918-1992, American Businessman, Founder of Wal-Mart Stores
Quote: There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.
Author: Sam Walton 1918-1992, American Businessman, Founder of Wal-Mart Stores
Quote: We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
Author: Sam Walton 1918-1992, American Businessman, Founder of Wal-Mart Stores
Quote: Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
Author: John Wanamaker 1838-1922, American Merchant
Quote: Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
Author: An Wang 1920-1989, Chinese American Physicist, Founder of Wang Laboratories
Quote: 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.
Author: Andy Warhol 1930-, American Artist, Filmmaker
Quote: 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. Author: Thomas J. Watson 18?-1956, American Businessman, Founder of IBM
Quote: You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
Author: Thomas J. Watson 18?-1956, American Businessman, Founder of IBM
Quote: Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Author: John Welch 1935-, American Businessman, Chairman of General Electric
Quote: 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.
Author: John Welch 1935-, American Businessman, Chairman of General Electric
Quote: It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.
Author: Charles E. Wilson 1886-1972, American Corporate Executive
Quote: Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA
Quote: 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.
Author: General Robert E. Woods President, Sears, Roebuck
Quote: I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.
Author: F. W. Woolworth 1852-1919, American Business, Founder of Woolworth's
Quote: When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
Author: William Wrigley Jr. 1861-1932, American Businessman, Founder of Wrigley & Co.
Quote: 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.
Author: Owen D. Young 1874-1962, American Lawyer, Businessman, Public Official
Quote: quality attracts quality
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