Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

1.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

2.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

3.

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

4.

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

Ford, Henry

5.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

6.

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

Wilde, Oscar

7.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

8.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Barzan, Gerald

12.

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

13.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

14.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

15.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Galvin, Robert

20.

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

21.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

22.

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

23.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

24.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

25.

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

Aldus Manutius

26.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

27.

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

Basinger, Kim

28.

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.

29.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

30.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

31.

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

Collins, Nathan

32.

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

Adolt, H. V.

33.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

35.

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.

36.

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

Brown, Derby

37.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

38.

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

39.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

40.

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

Ovid

41.

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

Tara Hunt

42.

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

Grove, Andrew

43.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

44.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

45.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

46.

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

47.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

50.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.