Business Principles Quotes

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.

Let appointments and removals be made on business principles and fixed rules.

It's important my daughters learn from the hard work my wife and I put into this company. Who better to look out for your best interests than family?

Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits.

In business, we use certain principles to measure performance, and I envision applying those principles in the public sector.

God's Word is your owner's manual for life. It contains principles for health, finance, marriage, other relationships, business, and much more.

The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

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.

I've always maintained the basic business principles of keeping it simple, doing your homework, hard work, and common sense.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

If I had a brick for every time I’ve repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I’d probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them.

When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.

At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place. From the very beginning, our business has existed to meet the needs and desires of multiple constituencies: customers, team members, vendors, shareholders, the community.

Many of the basic lessons of business, such as the critical value of customer service or measuring risk against reward when investing capital, have essential application in government, but not in a vacuum.

The music business is strictly business.

BUSINESS and LIFE are like a bank account-you can't take out more than you put in.

The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.

I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.

There has been a seismic shift in the business world. The great classical business principles still hold true but they need to be fused with cutting edge internet technology.

If General Motors can't survive and run their business like a business, let them go under.