Motivational Quotes

Business

It's the economy, stupid.

- Clinton, Bill

Best Quotes about Business

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

Collins, Nathan

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Rena, Peter

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

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

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

Bond, Alan

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

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

10.

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

Ford, Henry

11.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

12.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

13.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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.

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.

16.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

17.

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

Field, Marshall

18.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

19.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

20.

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

Tara Hunt

21.

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

22.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

23.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

24.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

25.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

26.

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

Warren Buffett

27.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

28.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

29.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

30.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

31.

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

32.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

33.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

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

Morley, John

35.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

43.

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

44.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

45.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

46.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Cardenas, Ruben