Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Proverb, German

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

10.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

11.

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.

12.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

13.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

14.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

15.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

17.

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

18.

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

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

21.

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

Morley, John

22.

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

Iacocca, Lee

23.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

24.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

25.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

28.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

29.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

30.

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

31.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

32.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

33.

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

34.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

35.

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

36.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

37.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

38.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

39.

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

Ovid

40.

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

41.

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

Armour, P. D.

42.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

43.

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

Walton, Sam

44.

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

Cathcart, Jim

45.

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

46.

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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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

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

Nevill, Dorothy

49.

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

50.

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

Cardenas, Ruben