Business Advice Quotes - Page 2

Even during a mid-life crisis do not deviate from your goal. History remembers only those who succeed.

IF PEOPLE ARE NOT LAUGHING AT YOUR GOALS, YOUR GOALS ARER TOO SMALL

Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?

The Shoes Should fit! you can't build a business that is not yours.

It is sad but true that many business people have no business being in business.

Market rewards you as per your perception.

Projects become complex because we try to solve it alone. Use your working relationships to help you problem solve. Your solution may be as easy as asking your online community for help and direction.

See money – currency - as the flow of energy and giving that cycles between you, others and me. Now let it flow kindly, fairly and mindfully.

Your Core Values are the "glue" that holds your business together.

I delegate, therefore I am.

Make sure your priorities line up with your values.

Of course, clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal. A dirty shirt may hide a pure heart, but it seldom covers a clean skin. If you look as if you had slept in our clothes, most men will jump to the conclusion that you have, and you will never get to know them well enough to explain that your head is so full of noble thoughts that you haven't time to bother with the dandruff on your shoulders...Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

I do not like measuring using soft indicators, like RTs or likes. I prefer the hardcore financial values. The ISO 10668:2010 is an international valuation standard that is very valuable if you are interested in how to measure a brand.

The ability to close sales effectively has never been confined to the last few moments of the conversation.

Research on the human brain has shown it is predisposed to think in the terms of a story.36 This predisposition is continuously reinforced and strengthened throughout the life of your brain. Imaging studies have shown only a small, quarter-sized region of your brain lights up when someone tells you a series of facts. However, when someone tells you a story laced with those facts, or those facts in action, your entire brain lights up. Not only can you program your mind with a story — you can program someone else’s mind.

Trading is injurious to your wealth. If you are smoking you may die in 20-30 years whereas by trading, this may happen the very next day.

If customers don’t trust you to help them at the beginning of the sales process, they certainly won’t trust you with their money at the end of it.

Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve

Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.

We wrote Shift Ahead to document how the smartest companies and organizations shift their strategiesin order to stay relevant in the face of swift and exponential changes in everything from technology tothe forces of globalization, from politics and culture, from consumer tastes to human behavior. Wewanted to find out how they shift ahead – how they stayed ahead of the curve, the competition, and theevolving requirements of their customers – given the barrage of evolving challenges.

Money Can make things better but a perfect relationship makes your life complete.

If what you sell doesn’t help me then why are you knocking on my door?

As long as you feel comfortable losing, you will never win!

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

When good things are so low that no one wants them, I buy them and lay them away in the safe; when owing to some new development, they go up and my shares are so needed that men will pay well for them, I am ready to sell.

Your investment belongs to the market and your profits belong to you.

We all need salespeople with humility, honesty, integrity, empathy and an old-fashioned work ethic that ensures the job gets done.

The minute you stop caring about your business, is the same minute your business stops caring about you.

I am not the type that is trying to help add balance to your life by removing the balancein your savings account.

If you choose the right vendors, your collective and sincere motives should establish both trust & grace on both sides of the relationship.

Focusing on Earning the Right will have an incredible effect on the success of every single sales call that you will make from this day on.

Don't ever let the Man get you.

If you cannot tie your marketing efforts to actual dollars that the electric company will accept, it’s time to adjust your plan.

You’ve got to get your team to not only understand your company brand, but also to understand their personal brand.

Business is fluid and you can always improve and progress as your time and financial resources allow, and as your learningcurve shortens.

When your pipeline is full – with business coming out of your ears – the notion of people asking for a discount will sound hilarious, because you’ll already be at capacity

If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.

Great selling involves helping people to make great buying decisions.

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

If you make your own path in this thing we call life, you will forever know that it was yours and not someone else's.

It’s one thing to have the respect of your peers in the business. Their opinions are not always verbalized but if you are doing the right thing you don’t need validation.

So don't look over your shoulder or let fear and anxiety rule you. Go for broke. Let passion blaze your trail. Look ahead and pursue the dream that fits who you are as a person and a manager. Learn what you can, but don't get bogged down--in today's world, there's so much to know that learning can actually take the place of action and hold you back. Learn enough, then trust your gut and act. Be bold--or crazy--enough not to hold back. Take advantage of the freedom to be your own person. When the game is over, regardless of the score, you'll revel in what you've done.

Remember: we’re drowning in information, but we’re starving for wisdom.

DOOR MONEY” To focus on door money means one is paying so much attention to the amount of money they are making at the door they do not consider there is much more profit to be made inside a venue.

Conquer your customer as you would a woman

The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses and people who accept truth soar.

Invest in your knowledge and future! Especially if you got kids, you don't want them going through life struggling trying to find jobs to survive and dealing with managers that don't know how to act because of their position, you don't want them to go through what you went through.... If you live day by day then you wont have something to look forward to." -Robert RiveraNew King James VersionProverbs 13:22- A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children.

Time is the one resource we cannot manufacture or recapture."PLAN | PROMOTE | PROFIT © 2001 - 2016

I never want to make screw-you money like the rest of the financial services industry.

Successful business is always almost dishonest

A business plan is like a war plan, when you competitors know about it, it's no longer of any use

In many instances, the words “sell” and “influence” are completely interchangeable.

When you do it, you are not another dreamer

Executing the solution means gaining customer commitment and delivering on your promises

Service standards create the standard of expectation that you and all team members follow when interacting with customers.

Public opinion only affects those who do not know their destiny.

Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn’t happen by accident.

Without the right succession planning put to play in human resources, we build for the future without a future

You may start small but don't stay small