Motivational Quotes

Business

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Business

1.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

2.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

3.

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

Ford, Henry

4.

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

5.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

6.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

7.

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.

8.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

9.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

10.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

11.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

12.

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

Malek, Fred

13.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

14.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

15.

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

Knudsen, William

16.

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

Tara Hunt

17.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

18.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

19.

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.

20.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

21.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

25.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

28.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

29.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

30.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

31.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

32.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

33.

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

34.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

35.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

36.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

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

Brown, Derby

38.

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.

39.

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.

40.

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

Ogilvy, David

41.

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

42.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

43.

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.

44.

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

Ford, Henry

45.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

46.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

47.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

48.

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

Ogilvy, David

49.

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

50.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin