Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

1.

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

2.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

3.

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

Blair, Tony

4.

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

Ogilvy, David

5.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

6.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

7.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

8.

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

9.

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.

10.

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

11.

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

Armour, P. D.

12.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

13.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

14.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

19.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

20.

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

21.

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

Kiam, Victor

22.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

23.

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

24.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

25.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

Tara Hunt

28.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

29.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

30.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

32.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

33.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

34.

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

Iacocca, Lee

35.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

36.

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

37.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

38.

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

Aldus Manutius

39.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

45.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

46.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

47.

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.

48.

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