Business Advice Quotes

Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce- to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth. It's intrinsic.

Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.

Customers get exactly what they need, while you hit your sales targets and become incredibly successful – fair deal.

If you're 5-minutes early, you're late "How to always be on time

It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said.

If you run a business, you know that every moment 365*24*7 people want to F*** with your business.

Let them ask who you are but do not let others dictate who you should be.

When we are right, we earn. When we are wrong, we learn.

Think of every contact a customer has with your brand as the most important encounter of your life.

It is far better to have 10,000 Facebook friends who are in the same category or aligned with your values or a common inter- est than 100,000 random robot followers from around the world.

People who succeed in business aren't afraid to hear feedback from their customers -- they actually thrive from it.

Remember that businesses are made up of humans like you. They aren’t going to be perfect and they will need encouragement, clarification, and correction to deliver their best.

If your culture is how you do business internally, your brand is what people believe about you externally.

In markets, stupid action does not have equal but severe opposite reaction.

A common mistaken conclusion made by companies is they think ‘people are cheap’ and want only the best price. That’s only true if you’re only giving them the same dismal choices with no differentiation and thus no value. That is the exact point when consumers start to look at price.

Get up in the morning on a mission to save prospective clients from the shabby, ill-fitting, overpriced and worthless alternatives that those charlatans - who are your competition - are trying to get away with flogging them.

When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don't trust anyone!

Business is a game like baseball or golf or anything else. I enjoy being a student of the game, and reading, and learning, and going to conferences, whether it’s building custom homes or selling or servicing medical equipment. A good entrepreneur can be a good entrepreneur in any industry because if you’re a good student of the game, the rules and the lessons are very much the same. And that’s the fun part about it.

Ignore the people who say that the sales industry needs to become professionalised: it already has.

Catch a customer with emotion and you will have a customer for a day; but, capture a customer with value and you will keep a customer for a lifetime. I truly believe in good, old-fashioned values when it comes to business. That is what timelessness is made of! At the end of the day, the question is, “Do you want to build a good hut for a day or do you want to build a good fortress for a lifetime?” Quality, value, understanding the needs of your clientele— that’s how you build a legacy. Connect with people, because you can never underestimate just how many people out there are yearning for any form of good interpersonal connection that they can find and when you can provide that as a brand name, you can allow the person behind your business to shine through. That’s how timelessness is created. It’s not created by luring people into a myth; it’s created by making connections, by remembering people’s names, by being genuinely interested in everybody.

Treat your employees like you would want to be treated if you were an employee.

For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start.

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life - that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators

Customers want to make informed decisions based on useful information, valuable engagements and brand affinity.

Ain’t nobody gonna separate from theircold hard cash unless they have an unresolved problem, so ifyou want to make money, you have to be incredibly clearabout what problem(s) you solve.

The best way to determine the Values you will enforce in your business is to clarify your personal values.

Entrepreneur, if your're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.

Take your dreams off the ground to the clouds of business where your products will contribute to make the world a better place.

Why do customers (and that includes you and me) find it so difficult to recall more than a couple of occasions when they felt that they were treated exceptionally by the salespeople who dealt with them?

A shared vision driven by core values is a powerful alchemy.

22% of current business-to-business salespeople will be replaced by search engines within the next five years.

Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you’re the best person for the job

The salesperson you’d ideally like to be and the salesperson you’d like to encounter as a customer should roughly be the same, shouldn’t they?

Don’t tell me you’re passionate about your job – show me that you’re passionate about helping people like me.

Transforming the complex to the simple is pure genius.

Once you believe that you can do something, there is not a single person in the universe who can convince you otherwise.

In this wonderful modern age, if you know what you want, you can just reach out and, with the click of a mouse, take complete control of your entire buying and shopping experience.

Your mission statement, vision statement, core values, and service standards provide a clear focus for all while keeping your team humble and hungry. It creates that family environment in which your employees enjoy coming to work and dealing with the challenges they face each day.

Walk a mile in your customers’ stilettos or loafers. Try to understand where they are in the moment.

Brands that will survive and thrive from now on are those with C-level executives that understand the incredible opportunity new media offers them and commit to excellence in managing their social media presence.

Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.

Even if you delegate that responsibility, ultimately you are the one responsible for howyour brand is portrayed.

I pick my technology like I picked my husband. It has to complement, not complicate, my life.

We all desperately need brilliant sales professionals far more than ever before – to help us, guide us, keep us informed and stop us from making diabolically stupid buying decisions.

The more businesses you have, the less work you do.

Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold.

A great sense of commitment builds a hardworking spirit.

Remember, you will always fail in business if you don't try to open your own business.

A bull doesn’t go wrong in predicting an upswing in a falling market. He goes wrong when he predicts a down swing in a rising market.

Exceptional customer service proactively manages your brand and reactively can turn upset customers into raving fans based on how you handled their complaint.

Immerse yourself in the customer's world and get to know their struggles and triumphs inside out.

For all salespeople - Driving around and talking to people for a living, with no recognisable return for the time or money spent by your employer - is a job description that belongs in the past.

You are responsible for everything you post and everything you post will be a reflection of you. [Social Media]

Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

Business is win-win, everything else shades into crime.

Think about it: if someone had found a way to manipulate human choice and free will – if someone actually had that kind of power – wouldn’t it be a tad surprising if they then decided to share their secret with the masses in a book for $20? Not to mention how it would be just very slightly unethical.

We all need salespeople who understand the problem and can deliver a solution that works brilliantly for both sides.

Find another solution. That’s how you move toward success.