In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

17.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

18.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

19.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

20.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

21.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

22.

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.

Walton, Sam

23.

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

Cathcart, Jim

24.

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

25.

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.

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

Aldus Manutius

27.

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

Perot, H. Ross

28.

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

Rena, Peter

29.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

30.

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

Ogilvy, David

31.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

32.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

33.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

34.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

35.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

36.

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

Blair, Tony

37.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

39.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

40.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

41.

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

42.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

43.

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

Dane, Frank

44.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

45.

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

46.

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

Ford, Henry