Motivational Quotes

Business

Business is a combination of war and sport.

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Business

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Riorio

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

John Cleese

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Grove, Andrew

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

Bean, L.L.

10.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

11.

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

Aldus Manutius

12.

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.

13.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

14.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

15.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

16.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

17.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

18.

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

19.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

20.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

21.

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

22.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

23.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

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

Barzan, Gerald

25.

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

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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

28.

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

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

Hook, Harold

30.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

31.

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

Buffett, Warren

32.

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

Iacocca, Lee

33.

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

Basinger, Kim

34.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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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

36.

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

37.

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

Welch, John

38.

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

Warren Buffett

39.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

40.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

41.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

42.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

45.

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

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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.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

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

Manzi, Jim

49.

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

50.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone