Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

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

Tara Hunt

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.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Beene, Geoffrey

10.

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

11.

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

Armour, P. D.

12.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

13.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

14.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

15.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

16.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

17.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Ovid

23.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

24.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

25.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

26.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

28.

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

Bean, L.L.

29.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

30.

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

Jacobs, Randall

31.

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

Wang, An

32.

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

Grove, Andrew

33.

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

Ford, Henry

34.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

35.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

36.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

37.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

38.

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

Knudsen, William

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.

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

41.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Patterson, John H.

44.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

45.

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

46.

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

47.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

48.

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

50.

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