Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Business

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

Branson, Richard

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

Tara Hunt

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Buffett, Warren

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

10.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

11.

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.

12.

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

Oscar Wilde

13.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

14.

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

Little, Royal

15.

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

Walton, Sam

16.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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.

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

Perot, H. Ross

19.

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

Barzan, Gerald

20.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

21.

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

Ford, Henry

22.

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

23.

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

Kiam, Victor

24.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

25.

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

26.

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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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

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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

29.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

30.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

31.

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.

32.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

37.

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

38.

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

Ford, Henry

39.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

40.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

41.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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.

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

44.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

45.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

46.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

48.

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

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

50.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.