Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Ford, Henry

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

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

10.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

11.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

12.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

13.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

14.

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

15.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

16.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

17.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

18.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

19.

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

Bean, L.L.

20.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

21.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

22.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

23.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

24.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

25.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Adolt, H. V.

29.

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

Kiam, Victor

30.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

33.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

34.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

35.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

41.

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

Collins, Nathan

42.

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

43.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

44.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

45.

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

46.

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

Armour, P. D.

47.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

48.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

49.

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

50.

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

Revson, Charles