Motivational Quotes

Business

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

- Brown, Derby

Best Quotes about Business

1.

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

David Letterman

2.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

3.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

4.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

5.

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

Proverb, German

6.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

7.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

8.

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

Mitchell Caplan

9.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

10.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

11.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

12.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

13.

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

George Ade

14.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

15.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

16.

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

17.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

18.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

19.

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

20.

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

Jacobs, Randall

21.

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

Perot, H. Ross

22.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

23.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

24.

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.

25.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

Riorio

28.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

29.

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

30.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

31.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

32.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

33.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

34.

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.

35.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

36.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

37.

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

Tara Hunt

38.

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

Blair, Tony

39.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

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

Kiam, Victor

41.

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.

42.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

43.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

44.

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

Iacocca, Lee

45.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

46.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

47.

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

48.

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

Aldus Manutius

49.

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

50.

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

Branson, Richard