Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

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

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Morley, John

10.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

11.

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.

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

13.

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

Ogilvy, David

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, German

16.

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

17.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

18.

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

19.

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

Cathcart, Jim

20.

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.

21.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Nevill, Dorothy

24.

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

Ford, Henry

25.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

26.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Aldus Manutius

28.

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

29.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

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.

31.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

32.

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

Riorio

33.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

34.

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.

35.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

36.

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

Grove, Andrew

37.

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

Bond, Alan

38.

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

Wang, An

39.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

40.

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

41.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

42.

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

43.

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

Knudsen, William

44.

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

45.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

46.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

47.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

48.

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.