Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Bean, L.L.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Rena, Peter

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

Cardenas, Ruben

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Aldus Manutius

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

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

Dane, Frank

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

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

Forbes, B. C.

10.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

11.

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

Tara Hunt

12.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

13.

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.

14.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

15.

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

16.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

17.

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

Perot, H. Ross

18.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

19.

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

Proverb, American

20.

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

21.

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

Thomas, Dylan

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

25.

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

George Ade

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

29.

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

30.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

31.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

32.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

33.

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

34.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

35.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

36.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

37.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

38.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

39.

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

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.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

42.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

43.

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

Kiam, Victor

44.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

46.

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

47.

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

Welch, John

48.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

49.

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

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul