Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb

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.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

11.

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

12.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

21.

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

22.

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

Tara Hunt

23.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

24.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

25.

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

26.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

27.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

28.

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

Iacocca, Lee

29.

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

David Letterman

30.

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

Adolt, H. V.

31.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

32.

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

Ford, Henry

33.

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.

34.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

35.

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

Proverb, American

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

39.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

40.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

41.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

42.

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

43.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

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

45.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

46.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

47.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

48.

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