Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Business

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

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

Blair, Tony

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Mcnealy, Scott

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

Aldus Manutius

12.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

13.

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

14.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

15.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

16.

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

Manzi, Jim

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

20.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

21.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

25.

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.

26.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

27.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

28.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

29.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

30.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

31.

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

32.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

33.

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

Branson, Richard

34.

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

Warren Buffett

35.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

36.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

37.

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

38.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

39.

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

Bond, Alan

40.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

41.

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

42.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

43.

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

44.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

45.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

46.

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

Little, Royal

47.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

48.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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