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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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.

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

Patterson, John H.

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

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

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

10.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

11.

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

Galvin, Robert

12.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

13.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

14.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

15.

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

John Cleese

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.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

18.

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

Walton, Sam

19.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

20.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

21.

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.

22.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

23.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

24.

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

25.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

26.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

27.

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

Adolt, H. V.

28.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

29.

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

Malek, Fred

30.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

31.

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

32.

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

33.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

34.

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

Blair, Tony

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

39.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

40.

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

Morley, John

41.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

Ford, Henry

45.

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

Rena, Peter

46.

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

47.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

48.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

49.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

50.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.