Motivational Quotes

Business

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

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

Hook, Harold

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

10.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

12.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

13.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

14.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

15.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

16.

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

17.

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

George Ade

18.

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

19.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

20.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

22.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

23.

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

24.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

25.

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

Knudsen, William

26.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

27.

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

Walton, Sam

28.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

32.

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

33.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

34.

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

35.

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

Walton, Sam

36.

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

37.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

38.

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.

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

41.

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

Kiam, Victor

42.

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

43.

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

44.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

45.

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

Proverb, German

46.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

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

Proverb, American

48.

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

Patterson, John H.

49.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

50.

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

Geneen, Harold S.