Motivational Quotes

Business

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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

George Ade

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

Grove, Andrew

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

10.

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

Ogilvy, David

11.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

12.

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

13.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

17.

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.

18.

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

Iacocca, Lee

19.

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

Dickens, Charles

20.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

21.

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

Kiam, Victor

22.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

23.

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

24.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

25.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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.

27.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

28.

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

Malek, Fred

29.

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

Tara Hunt

30.

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

Mitchell Caplan

31.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

32.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

33.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

35.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

36.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

37.

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

Thomas, Dylan

38.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

39.

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

Ogilvy, David

40.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

41.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

42.

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

43.

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

John Cleese

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Barzan, Gerald

47.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

48.

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.

49.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jacobs, Randall