Motivational Quotes

Business

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

- Galvin, Robert

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Proverb

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

Tara Hunt

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

Branson, Richard

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

Iacocca, Lee

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

10.

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

Kiam, Victor

11.

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

12.

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

Blair, Tony

13.

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

Proverb, American

14.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

15.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

16.

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

17.

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

Walton, Sam

18.

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.

19.

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

Ford, Henry

20.

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

Little, Royal

21.

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

Warren Buffett

22.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

23.

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

Field, Marshall

24.

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

Bond, Alan

25.

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

26.

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

Collins, Nathan

27.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

28.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

29.

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

Hook, Harold

30.

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

31.

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

32.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

33.

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

34.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

35.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

36.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

37.

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

38.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

39.

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

Patterson, John H.

40.

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

John Cleese

41.

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

42.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

43.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

44.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

45.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

46.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

47.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

48.

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

Barzan, Gerald

49.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles