Motivational Quotes

Business

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

- Coffin, Harold

Best Quotes about Business

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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

Scrutton, T. L.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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.

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.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

10.

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.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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.

Pritchett, Lew

12.

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

Warren Buffett

13.

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

Perot, H. Ross

14.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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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.

Ogilvy, David

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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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.

Harris, B. F.

18.

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 nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

20.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

21.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

22.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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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

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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

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

28.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

29.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

31.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

32.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

33.

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.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

35.

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

36.

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.

Blake, William

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

40.

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

41.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Tara Hunt

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

44.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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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.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

48.

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.

Billings, Josh

49.

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

Riorio

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.