Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Rena, Peter

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

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

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Dumas, Alexandre

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

10.

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.

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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

12.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

13.

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

Patterson, John H.

14.

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

Galvin, Robert

15.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

16.

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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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

18.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

19.

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

Barzan, Gerald

20.

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.

21.

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

Blair, Tony

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

Grove, Andrew

23.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

24.

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

Cathcart, Jim

25.

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

Proverb, German

26.

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

27.

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

Field, Marshall

28.

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

29.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

30.

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

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

35.

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

Aldus Manutius

36.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

38.

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

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

Knudsen, William

40.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

42.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

43.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Hook, Harold

46.

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

47.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

48.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

49.

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

Adolt, H. V.

50.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William