Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Cathcart, Jim

Best Quotes about Business

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

Hawken, Paul

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Morley, John

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Forbes, B. C.

13.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

14.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

15.

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

16.

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

Knudsen, William

17.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

18.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

20.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

21.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

22.

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

Patterson, John H.

23.

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

24.

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

Dane, Frank

25.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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

28.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

29.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

30.

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.

31.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

35.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

36.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

37.

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

38.

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

39.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

40.

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

John Cleese

41.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

42.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

43.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

44.

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

Mitchell Caplan

45.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

46.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

48.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

49.

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

Branson, Richard

50.

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