Motivational Quotes

Business

The chief business of the American people is business.

- Calvin Coolidge

Best Quotes about Business

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

10.

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

11.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

12.

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

Bean, L.L.

13.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

14.

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

15.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

16.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

17.

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

18.

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

Little, Royal

19.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

23.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

24.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

25.

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

Ford, Henry

26.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

27.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

28.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

29.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

30.

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

Grove, Andrew

31.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Armour, P. D.

36.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

37.

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

38.

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