Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Mcnealy, Scott

Best Quotes about Business

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

10.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

11.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

12.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

13.

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

John Cleese

14.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

16.

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

Barzan, Gerald

17.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

18.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

19.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

20.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

21.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

22.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

26.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

27.

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

Patterson, John H.

28.

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

Rena, Peter

29.

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

Riorio

30.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

31.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

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

Tara Hunt

33.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

34.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

35.

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

36.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

37.

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

38.

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

39.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

40.

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

41.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

42.

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

Walton, Sam

43.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

Manzi, Jim

47.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

48.

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

Adolt, H. V.

49.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

50.

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