Motivational Quotes

Business

Every business is built on friendship.

- Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Best Quotes about Business

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Brown, Derby

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

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

Field, Marshall

10.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

11.

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

John Cleese

12.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

15.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

16.

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

Walton, Sam

17.

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

Ovid

18.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

19.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

20.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

28.

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

29.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

30.

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

31.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

32.

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

Malek, Fred

33.

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

Cathcart, Jim

34.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

35.

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

Jacobs, Randall

36.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

37.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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

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

Armour, P. D.

40.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

41.

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.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

43.

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

Galvin, Robert

44.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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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.

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.

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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

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

Tara Hunt

49.

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

50.

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