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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hook, Harold

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

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

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

Revson, Charles

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

Jurgen Schrempp

10.

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

11.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

12.

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

Iacocca, Lee

13.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

15.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

16.

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

17.

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

Field, Marshall

18.

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

Kiam, Victor

19.

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

20.

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

Dane, Frank

21.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

22.

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.

23.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

24.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

25.

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

Branson, Richard

26.

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

Forbes, B. C.

27.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

29.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

30.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

31.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

32.

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

Rena, Peter

33.

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

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

36.

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

Patterson, John H.

37.

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

38.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

39.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

40.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

41.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

43.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

44.

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

Cathcart, Jim

45.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

46.

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

Forbes, B. C.

47.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

48.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

49.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

50.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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