Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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.

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.

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

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

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

Tara Hunt

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

10.

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

Iacocca, Lee

11.

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

12.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

13.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

14.

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

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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.

16.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

17.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

18.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

19.

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

Aldus Manutius

20.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

21.

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

22.

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

Revson, Charles

23.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

24.

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

Rena, Peter

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

Blair, Tony

27.

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

Ogilvy, David

28.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

29.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

34.

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

35.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

36.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

37.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

38.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

39.

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