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

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Blair, Tony

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Manzi, Jim

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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Barzan, Gerald

10.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

11.

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

12.

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

13.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

14.

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.

15.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

16.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

17.

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

18.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

19.

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

20.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

21.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

22.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

23.

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

Morley, John

24.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

25.

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

Adolt, H. V.

26.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

27.

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

28.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

29.

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

30.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

31.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

32.

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

Perot, H. Ross

33.

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

34.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

35.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

36.

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.

37.

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

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.

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

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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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

42.

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

43.

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

Brown, Derby

44.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

45.

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Field, Marshall

48.

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

49.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

50.

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

Ogilvy, David