Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Field, Marshall

Best Quotes about Business

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

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

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.

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

Mitchell Caplan

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Rena, Peter

10.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

15.

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

Revson, Charles

16.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

17.

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

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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

19.

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

Warren Buffett

20.

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

21.

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

Hook, Harold

22.

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

Ford, Henry

23.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

24.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

26.

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

27.

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

28.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

29.

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.

30.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

31.

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

32.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

33.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

34.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

35.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

36.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

37.

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

Collins, Nathan

38.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

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

40.

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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

42.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

43.

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

44.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

45.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

46.

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.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

48.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

49.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

50.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.