Motivational Quotes

Business

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

- Mcgovern, William

Best Quotes about Business

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

Walton, Sam

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

Wilde, Oscar

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Rena, Peter

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.

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

12.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

13.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

14.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

15.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

16.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

17.

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

Warren Buffett

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.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

20.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

21.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

22.

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

Iacocca, Lee

23.

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

Ford, Henry

24.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

25.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

26.

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

27.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

28.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

29.

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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Iacocca, Lee

34.

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

35.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

36.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

37.

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

38.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

39.

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

40.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

41.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

42.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

43.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

44.

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

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

46.

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

47.

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

48.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

49.

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

Hawken, Paul

50.

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

Barzan, Gerald