Motivational Quotes

Business

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

- Adolt, H. V.

Best Quotes about Business

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Tara Hunt

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

Grove, Andrew

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!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Cardenas, Ruben

10.

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

Ogilvy, David

11.

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.

Chandler, Raymond

12.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

13.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

14.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

15.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

17.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

18.

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

Proverb

19.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

20.

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

21.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

22.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

23.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

24.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

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.

Watson, Thomas J.

26.

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

Blair, Tony

27.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

28.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

29.

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

30.

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.

Marcinko, Richard

31.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

32.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

33.

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

Kiam, Victor

34.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

35.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

36.

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

37.

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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

39.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

40.

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

Walton, Sam

41.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

42.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

43.

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.

Ogilvy, David

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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.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.