Motivational Quotes

Business

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Business

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

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

Collins, Nathan

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

10.

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

11.

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

David Letterman

12.

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

Hook, Harold

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

15.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

16.

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

17.

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

Ovid

18.

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

Field, Marshall

19.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Bond, Alan

23.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

24.

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

25.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

27.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

28.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

29.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

30.

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

32.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

33.

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

34.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

35.

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

Welch, John

36.

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

Blair, Tony

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

Hawken, Paul

38.

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

Kiam, Victor

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

40.

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

Wilde, Oscar

41.

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

Adolt, H. V.

42.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

43.

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

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

Leavitt, Theodore

45.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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.

47.

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

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

Nevill, Dorothy

49.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

50.

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

Cathcart, Jim