Motivational Quotes

Business

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Business

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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.

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

10.

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

Proverb, German

11.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

12.

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

13.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

14.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

15.

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

Warren Buffett

16.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

17.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

21.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

22.

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.

23.

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

Collins, Nathan

24.

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

Ford, Henry

25.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

27.

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

Ford, Henry

28.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

29.

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.

30.

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

Perot, H. Ross

31.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

32.

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

Barzan, Gerald

33.

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

Armour, P. D.

34.

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

35.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

36.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

37.

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.

38.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

40.

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

Dickens, Charles

41.

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

Hawken, Paul

42.

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.

43.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

44.

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

Bean, L.L.

45.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

46.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Geneen, Harold S.

48.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

49.

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

50.

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

Buffett, Warren