Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Adolt, H. V.

Best Quotes about Business

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

10.

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

Galvin, Robert

11.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

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

Bond, Alan

13.

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

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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

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

Collins, Nathan

16.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

17.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

18.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

19.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

20.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

21.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

22.

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

23.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

24.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

25.

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

Jacobs, Randall

26.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

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

Knudsen, William

28.

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

29.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

30.

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

Revson, Charles

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

33.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

34.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

35.

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

Armour, P. D.

36.

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

37.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

38.

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

Blair, Tony

39.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

40.

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.

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

42.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

43.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

44.

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.

45.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

46.

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

Brown, Derby

47.

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

48.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

49.

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.

50.

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