Motivational Quotes

Business

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

- Foulston, Nicola

Best Quotes about Business

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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

2.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

3.

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

Hawken, Paul

4.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Forbes, B. C.

8.

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

Proverb

9.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

12.

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

Ogilvy, David

13.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

14.

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

15.

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

16.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

17.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

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

Mitchell Caplan

19.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

20.

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

Oscar Wilde

21.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

22.

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

23.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

24.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

25.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

26.

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.

27.

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

Barzan, Gerald

28.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

29.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

30.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

31.

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

32.

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

Patterson, John H.

33.

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

Ford, Henry

34.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

35.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

36.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

37.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

38.

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

Kiam, Victor

39.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

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

41.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

42.

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

43.

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

Revson, Charles

44.

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

Blair, Tony

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

48.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

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

Adolt, H. V.

50.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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