Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Leavitt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Business

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Walton, Sam

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

10.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

11.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

12.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

13.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

14.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

15.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

16.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

17.

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.

Baudrillard, Jean

18.

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

19.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

20.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

21.

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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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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.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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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

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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.

Firestone, Harvey S.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

29.

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

Kiam, Victor

30.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

32.

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.

Harvey-Jones, John

33.

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

Revson, Charles

34.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

35.

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.

Ritz, Cesar

36.

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

Tara Hunt

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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.

Foulston, Nicola

38.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

39.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

40.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

41.

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

Field, Marshall

42.

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

43.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

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

Blair, Tony

45.

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.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

47.

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.

48.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

49.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo