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

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

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Little, Royal

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

10.

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

Proverb, German

11.

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

Kiam, Victor

12.

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

13.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

14.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

15.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

16.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

17.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

18.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

19.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

23.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

24.

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

25.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

26.

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

27.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

28.

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

Grove, Andrew

29.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

30.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

31.

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

32.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

33.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

34.

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

David Letterman

35.

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

38.

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

Dane, Frank

39.

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

40.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

41.

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

42.

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

43.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

44.

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

Welch, John

45.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.