Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Grove, Andrew

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

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.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

10.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

11.

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

Proverb, German

12.

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

Ogilvy, David

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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

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

Brown, Derby

18.

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

Rena, Peter

19.

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

20.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

21.

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

Collins, Nathan

22.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

23.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

24.

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.

25.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

26.

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

27.

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

28.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

29.

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

Aldus Manutius

30.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

33.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

34.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

35.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

36.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

38.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

Grove, Andrew

41.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

42.

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

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.