Motivational Quotes

Business

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Business

1.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

2.

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

Hawken, Paul

3.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

4.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

5.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

6.

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

Patterson, John H.

7.

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

Blair, Tony

8.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

9.

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

10.

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

Hook, Harold

11.

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

Proverb, American

12.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

13.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

14.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

15.

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

Oscar Wilde

16.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

17.

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

18.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

19.

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

Cathcart, Jim

20.

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

Grove, Andrew

21.

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

22.

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

Kiam, Victor

23.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

24.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

25.

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

George Ade

26.

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

Proverb

27.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

28.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

32.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

35.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

36.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

37.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

38.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

39.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

40.

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

Forbes, B. C.

41.

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

Field, Marshall

42.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

43.

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

44.

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

Bond, Alan

45.

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

46.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

47.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

48.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

49.

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

50.

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

Watson, Thomas J.