Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Cardenas, Ruben

Best Quotes about Business

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

Riorio

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

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

Bond, Alan

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

Ford, Henry

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

10.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

15.

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

16.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

17.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

18.

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

Dickens, Charles

19.

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

Collins, Nathan

20.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

21.

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.

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

25.

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

26.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

27.

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

Ogilvy, David

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, German

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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.

34.

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

Brown, Derby

35.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

36.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Knudsen, William

39.

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

40.

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

Tara Hunt

41.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

42.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

43.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

44.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

45.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

46.

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

47.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

49.

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

50.

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