Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Brown, Derby

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

10.

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

11.

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

Adolt, H. V.

12.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

13.

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.

14.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

15.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

16.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Proverb

18.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

19.

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

Rena, Peter

20.

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

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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

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

Cardenas, Ruben

23.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

24.

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

25.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forbes, B. C.

27.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

John Cleese

29.

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

30.

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

Kiam, Victor

31.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

33.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

34.

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

35.

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

Iacocca, Lee

36.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

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

Aldus Manutius

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

39.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

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

41.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

42.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

43.

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

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

45.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

46.

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

Walton, Sam

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.