Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Rena, Peter

Best Quotes about Business

A hard thing about business is minding your own

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Iacocca, Lee

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

10.

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

11.

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

Kiam, Victor

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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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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

14.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

15.

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

Ogilvy, David

16.

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

Ogilvy, David

17.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

18.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

19.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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.

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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

22.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

23.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

24.

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

25.

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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

John Cleese

30.

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

Brown, Derby

31.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

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

33.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

34.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

35.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

36.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

38.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

39.

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

40.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

41.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

42.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

43.

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.

44.

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

Riorio

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

50.

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