Business Quotes - Page 10

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but he must get there first.

You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle…Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Most of the people are nice to live with, but not to do business with!

Maybe you are in the Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy looking for a way out, looking for the next rung in the ladder on your climb to the Peak of Happiness, or you may even be at the Peak of Happiness already, looking for a way to stay there. Wherever you are in life, this book is designed to give you the tools necessary to help you achieve your goals.

Success may require a lot of days. But progress only requires one.

God is not a thief. That which steals, kills and destroys is the devil - not God!

Finding happiness by delivering it.

Even the richest person, provided the riches comes from mutually beneficial exchange, does not need to give anything "back" to the community, because this person took nothing out of the community. Indeed, the reverse is true: Enterprises give to the community. Their owners take huge risks, and front the money for investment, precisely with the goal of serving others. Their riches are signs that they have achieved their aims.

Vision is oxygen for companies.

Don’t always trust what you see. In a bull market even a duck looks like a swan.

In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have to make an investment.

In business presentations, positive impressions can help make a sale or win over an audience.

We must practice consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate and even courteous communication every single day to successfully sustain, develop and grow our business.

Take the wrong route sometimes and make fool out of yourself. Laugh at your mess ups because it will all become a funny story one day.

Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!

If you think rightly, every problem is financial problem or eventually becomes one.

Don't work for something in Exchange, Work on something for a Change.

I must turn myself around so that I am viewing life as my prospects see it. Only then can I start addressing their issues, help to prevent their pain, and advise on solutions to their problems.

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.

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

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Hungry people always win.

Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.

When you are willing to be everything that you are, you become an infinitely creative source for everything in your life - including money.

Focus on Being Productive Instead of Busy.

There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral.

Entrepreneur, if your distinction isn't angering the mediocre, it's actually mediocre.

People are busy creating families, building businesses, working from morning until night but they don’t know what it is to live a full life

Ask for a fish, and you only get one; ask for a net, and you can catch dozens.

Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.

Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen.

The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don’t ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it.

Just preaching "you are blessed" to a congregation is like giving them a big fertile land. They need the seeds to plant on it; they need business ideas, a little of which is enough!

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels

You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.

YOU have to design your own Price tag for the world.

CRM is rather boring in itself. It's the fortunes you can build using CRM that makes it so interesting.

Knowledge makes us stronger, but power is not supersede by it (knowledge). Vulnerable is power without knowledge. Impracticable is knowledge without power.

In America, Amazon competes with yahoo and Google by competing with a gas station. Imagine if every price in QT was the same, but had a for sale sign beside higher prices, and you'll have either Amazon or Craiglist.

In today’s saturated marketplace, you’ll go nowhere selling a “bunch of features.” We are in the business of disrupting the market with brands that matter.

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

who wishes to fight must first count the cost

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.

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'Well done'.

If you are not good at innovating, be smart in investing.

Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.

The Tanakh teaches that, “The diligent will rule, while the lazy will be put to forced labor”. Most Jews work for themselves and hire employees instead of being employees.

Could trying your hardest, but never being quite good enough ever be acceptable to anyone? Is that what your dreams are made of?

Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be called “moderate Republicans.” The “political revolution” that Bernie Sanders called for, rightly, would not have greatly surprised Dwight Eisenhower.The fate of the minimum wage illustrates what has been happening. Through the periods of high and egalitarian growth in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the minimum wage—which sets a floor for other wages—tracked productivity. That ended with the onset of neoliberal doctrine. Since then, the minimum wage has stagnated (in real value). Had it continued as before, it would probably be close to $20 per hour. Today, it is considered a political revolution to raise it to $15.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

The connection between you and any business is knowledge.

There are days when you will wonder if it is even possible to make money doing what you do, or whether you are just barking up the wrong tree...There will be days when you think that if you don't show up for the next few days nobody will miss you and nobody will care...Don't believe it...it's not true...If your gift and your passion wasn't needed you wouldn't have them...

Money makes a poor for few days rich. Education makes people rich without asking for money.

I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend.

Clear mind + clear plan = clear outcomes.

Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price.

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.

Business is all about solving people's problems - at a profit.

It seems that there's a part of our psyche that doesn't know the difference between an agreement about cleaning the garage and an agreement about buying a company