Business Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Ambrose Bierce,
Richard Branson,
Warren Buffet,
Michael Dell,
Henry Ford,
Sam Walton
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| Whome are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college. |
| - George Ade |
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| There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I ran the wrong kinds of business, but I did it with integrity |
| - Sydney Biddle Barrows |
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| In college, Yuppies major in business administration. If to meet certain requirements they have to take a liberal arts course, they take Business Poetry. |
| - Dave Barry |
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| Commerce, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. |
| - Richard Branson |
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| Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming. |
| - Richard Branson |
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| I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer. |
| - Richard Branson |
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| I want Virgin to be as well-known around the world as Coca-Cola. |
| - Richard Branson |
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| I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. |
| - Richard Branson |
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| If you can run one business well, you can run any business well. |
| - Richard Branson |
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| The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. |
| - Richard Branson |
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| What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet. |
| - Richard Branson |
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| (When speaking of managers and executive compensation) The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward - even if he plays for a pennant winner. |
| - Warren Buffet |
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| In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. |
| - Warren Buffet |
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| It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. |
| - Warren Buffet |
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| Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true. If you hire somebody without the first, you really want them to be dumb and lazy. |
| - Warren Buffet |
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| The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. |
| - Warren Buffet |
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| Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business. |
| - Warren Buffet |
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| It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to lose it. |
| - Warren Buffet |
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| You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing. |
| - Warren Buffet |
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| Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. |
| - Warren Buffet |
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| The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. |
| - Confucius |
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| The chief business of the American people is business |
| - Calvin Coolidge |
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| Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. |
| - Norman Cousins |
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| It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference. |
| - Michael Dell |
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| I think a lot of people initially thought that the 'e' in e-business was more important than the business. |
| - Michael Dell |
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| Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships. |
| - Michael Dell |
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| I realised that the computer market was very inefficient. The markups were incredibly high over the cost of materials and the service was very poor. |
| - Michael Dell |
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| Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs. |
| - Peter F. Drucker |
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| It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth. |
| - Malcolm S. Forbes |
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| It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. |
| - Henry Ford |
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| It is not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages. |
| - Henry Ford |
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| The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. |
| - Henry Ford |
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| Drive thy business or it will drive thee. |
| - Benjamin Franklin |
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| Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. |
| - Bill Gates |
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| The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. |
| - Bill Gates |
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| I have found no greater satisfation than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well. |
| - Alan Greenspan |
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| To turn really interesting ideals and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines. |
| - Steve Jobs |
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| Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it. |
| - Peter Lynch |
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| I got positive feelings when I saw that Taco Bell's headquarters was stuck behind a bowling alley. When I saw those executives operating out of that grim little bunker, I was thrilled. Obviously they weren't wasting money on landscaping the office. |
| - Peter Lynch |
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| Business is a combination of war and sport. |
| - André Maurois |
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| To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger. |
| - Octave Mirbeau |
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| In an organization that clearly needed lots of help, there was just one mandate: Make yourself valuable. |
| - John Neff |
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| Most new jobs won’t come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We’ve got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality. |
| - Ross Perot |
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| A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it. |
| - Alexander Pope |
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| Money made through dishonest practices will not last long. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
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| One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. |
| - David Rockefeller |
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| People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please. |
| - Will Rogers |
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| Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people. |
| - David Sarnoff |
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| Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman. |
| - George Soros |
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| Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman. |
| - George Soros |
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| Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. |
| - Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people. |
| - Donald Trump |
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| My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job. |
| - Ted Turner |
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| The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| 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. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| If you take care of the people in the stores, they will take care of the customers in the same manner. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| Put the customer first, communicate, keep your ear to the ground, push responsibility and authority down, force ideas to bubble up, stay lean and fight bureaucracy, and always give something back. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| We had to keep expenses to a minimum. That is where it started. Our money was made by controlling expenses. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| Capital isn't scarce; vision is. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| High expectations are the key to everything. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| We're all working together; that's the secret. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. |
| - William Arthur Ward |
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| Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it. |
| - Thomas Watson |
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| The future of this business is far beyond the vision of any of us. |
| - Thomas Watson |
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| What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives. |
| - Oprah Winfrey |
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| Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. |
| - Zig Ziglar |
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