Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Grove, Andrew

Best Quotes about Business

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

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

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

David Letterman

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Walton, Sam

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Oscar Wilde

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.

10.

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

Proverb

11.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

12.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

13.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

14.

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

Adolt, H. V.

15.

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

Kiam, Victor

16.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

17.

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

Tara Hunt

18.

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

Little, Royal

19.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

21.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

22.

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

23.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

24.

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

John Cleese

25.

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

Malek, Fred

26.

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

27.

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

28.

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

Grove, Andrew

29.

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

Warren Buffett

30.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

31.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

32.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

33.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

34.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

35.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

37.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

41.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

42.

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

43.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

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

45.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

46.

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.

47.

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

Revson, Charles

48.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.