Motivational Quotes

Business

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

- Revson, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Rena, Peter

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

Knudsen, William

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

10.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

12.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

13.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

14.

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.

15.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

16.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

17.

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

Bond, Alan

18.

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

19.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

20.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

21.

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

Oscar Wilde

22.

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

Brown, Derby

23.

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

Little, Royal

24.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

25.

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

Manzi, Jim

26.

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

Morley, John

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

31.

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

Tara Hunt

32.

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

Armour, P. D.

33.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

34.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

35.

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

36.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

37.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

40.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

41.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

42.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

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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

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

Ogilvy, David

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

47.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

48.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

49.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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