Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Collins, Nathan

Best Quotes about Business

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Field, Marshall

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

Ford, Henry

10.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

11.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

13.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

14.

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

Hawken, Paul

15.

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

16.

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

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

Dane, Frank

18.

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.

19.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

20.

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

21.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

Mitchell Caplan

24.

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

25.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

26.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

28.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

29.

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

Iacocca, Lee

30.

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

31.

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

Hook, Harold

32.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

33.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

34.

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

35.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

36.

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

37.

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

Blair, Tony

38.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

39.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

40.

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

Adolt, H. V.

41.

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

42.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

43.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

44.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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