Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Manzi, Jim

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Ford, Henry

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

John Cleese

10.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

11.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

13.

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

14.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

15.

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

16.

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

Ogilvy, David

17.

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

Forbes, B. C.

18.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

David Letterman

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

Forbes, B. C.

24.

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

Revson, Charles

25.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

30.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

31.

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

Branson, Richard

32.

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

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.

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

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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

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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

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

39.

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

Blair, Tony

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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

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

42.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Adolt, H. V.