Motivational Quotes

Business

Few great men could pass personal.

- Goodman, Paul

Best Quotes about Business

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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.

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

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

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

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Rena, Peter

10.

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

11.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

12.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

13.

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

Ogilvy, David

14.

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.

15.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

16.

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

Proverb

17.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

18.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

19.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

20.

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.

21.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

22.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

23.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

24.

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

Branson, Richard

25.

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

26.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

27.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

28.

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

Collins, Nathan

29.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

David Letterman

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

34.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

35.

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

36.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

37.

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

Manzi, Jim

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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

39.

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

40.

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

Patterson, John H.

41.

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

42.

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

George Ade

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Walton, Sam

46.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

47.

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

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.