Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Tara Hunt

Best Quotes about Business

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

John Cleese

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Brown, Derby

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

Walton, Sam

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Iacocca, Lee

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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.

10.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

11.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

12.

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

Iacocca, Lee

13.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

14.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

15.

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

16.

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

Ogilvy, David

17.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

18.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

19.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

20.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

21.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

22.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

23.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

24.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

25.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

26.

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.

27.

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

Grove, Andrew

28.

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

29.

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

Tara Hunt

30.

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

Hawken, Paul

31.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

32.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

33.

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

Bond, Alan

34.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

35.

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

Armour, P. D.

36.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

37.

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

38.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

40.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

41.

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

Revson, Charles

42.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

43.

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

Dickens, Charles

44.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

46.

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

47.

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

George Ade

48.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

49.

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.

50.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin