Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Armour, P. D.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Rena, Peter

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

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Perot, H. Ross

10.

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

Knudsen, William

11.

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

12.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

13.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

15.

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

Ford, Henry

16.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

17.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

18.

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

19.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

20.

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.

21.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

John Cleese

23.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

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.

26.

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

27.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

28.

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

Riorio

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

33.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

34.

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

35.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

36.

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

37.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

38.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

39.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

40.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

41.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

42.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

43.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

47.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Tara Hunt

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