Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Business

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

Wilson, Charles E.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Geneen, Harold S.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Brown, Derby

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

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.

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

Dickens, Charles

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

10.

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

11.

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

12.

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

13.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

14.

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

George Ade

15.

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

Tara Hunt

16.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

17.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

20.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

21.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

22.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

23.

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

Revson, Charles

24.

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

Oscar Wilde

25.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

26.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

27.

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

28.

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

Patterson, John H.

29.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

30.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

31.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

32.

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

33.

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

Barzan, Gerald

34.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

35.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

37.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

38.

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

39.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

40.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

41.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Little, Royal

47.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

48.

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

49.

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

Rena, Peter

50.

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

Mcnealy, Scott