Motivational Quotes

Business

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Best Quotes about Business

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

Jacobs, Randall

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Barzan, Gerald

14.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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.

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

17.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

18.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

19.

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

Buffett, Warren

20.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

25.

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

Ogilvy, David

26.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

27.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

30.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

37.

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.

38.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

39.

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

Malek, Fred

40.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

41.

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

Field, Marshall

42.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

43.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

44.

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

Iacocca, Lee

45.

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

46.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

47.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

48.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

49.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

50.

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