Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Collins, Nathan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tara Hunt

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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.

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

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

10.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

11.

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

Iacocca, Lee

12.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

13.

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

Revson, Charles

14.

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

15.

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

Ford, Henry

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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

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

18.

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

Iacocca, Lee

19.

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

20.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Forbes, B. C.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Geneen, Harold S.

30.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

31.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

32.

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

Grove, Andrew

33.

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

Ovid

34.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Little, Royal

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Cathcart, Jim

42.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

43.

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

Manzi, Jim

44.

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

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

Hawken, Paul

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

48.

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

49.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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