Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Brown, Derby

Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb

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

Iacocca, Lee

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

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

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Revson, Charles

10.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

11.

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

12.

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

Thomas, Dylan

13.

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.

14.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

15.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Ogilvy, David

18.

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

19.

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

Warren Buffett

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.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

22.

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

Proverb, American

23.

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

24.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

25.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

26.

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

Rena, Peter

27.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

28.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

29.

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

30.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

31.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

33.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

34.

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

Walton, Sam

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

Walton, Sam

36.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

37.

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

Malek, Fred

38.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Adolt, H. V.

40.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

41.

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.

42.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

43.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

44.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

45.

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.

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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

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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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.