Business Quotes - Page 18

A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.

The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.

I succeed him no one could replace him.

My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain—and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.

Before you start any business, you need to get your target audience down pat. Who do you want to serve? Who will your product/service benefit the most? Don’t worry about the rest.

You can’t let fear and indecision sink your creativity—they do not easily release their hold.

Use your passion and expertise to provide long term value and innovative solutions for your clients

Consistency matters. You must learn that giving people a consistent high-quality product is of importance, like building trust across your brand. This build relational wealth - people want to know what they are about to step into and with whom.

TACKLE the ROOT CAUSE not the EFFECT.

...the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

Don't be humble. You're not that great.

One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.

Sometimes cheap is inexpensive. Sometimes it's cheap.

A National Government cannot create good times. It cannot make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, or the crops to grow, but it can, by pursuing a meddlesome policy, attempting to change economic conditions, and frightening the investment of capital, prevent a prosperity and a revival of business which might otherwise have taken place.

There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

Show your vulnerability, but have faith. You will succeed. Growth is not glamorous.

Vision without an Action is Illusion. Action without a Vision is Confusion.

The thing about Web companies is there's always something severely fucked-up. There is always an outage, always lost data, always compromised customer information, always a server going offline. You work with these clugey internal tools and patch together work-arounds to compensate for the half-assed, rushed development, and after a while the fucked-upness of the whole enterprise becomes the status quo. VPs insecure that they're not as in touch as they need to be with conditions on the ground insert themselves into projects midstream and you get serious scope creep. You present to the world this image that you're a buttoned-down tech company with everything in its right place but once you're on the other side of the firewall it looks like triage time in an emergency room, 24/7. Systems break down, laptops go into the blue screen of death, developers miskey a line of code, error messages appear that mean absolutely nothing. The instantaneousness with which you can fix stuff creates a culture that works by the seat of its pants. I swear the whole Web was built by virtue of developers fixing one mistake after another, constantly forced to compensate for the bugginess of their code.

Marketers and executives are very different from the average consumer, so your instincts may mislead you.

But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?

Business Plans: It's about the Process, Not the Product

The motto in the workaholic Silicon Valley is "Stop for lunch and you are lunch."

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.

You must be grounded to take flight.

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.

You have to work on the business first before it works for you.

If you believe that you're doing will positive results, it will - even if it's not immediately obvious.

Branding is the art of differentiation

A woman with vision is unstoppable, a woman who is always increasing her skills multiplies. Along with passion this woman is undeniable.

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

In business, it is better to be consistently bad than inconsistent.

Believing business is easy boosts your self-confidence.

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared.

Dreams are less influential than actions and actions are less influential than results.

Nothing tells you more about an organization than the way it makes decisions.

Innovation Games let customers engage other centers of their brain, resulting in richer, deeper, and more meaningful exchanges of information

From today onward, you will learn how to become evangelical about the many ways you help people.

If you have designed your last day on earth, if you have decided how you wish to be thought of on your deathbed, only then can you start to plot a course to that point, to your ideal final destination.

Associations must evolve if they are to survive into the future.

When “We’ve always done it that way” is replaced with “Let’s try something new,” associations will leap to greatness.

Adopt the positive in everything you do, for there will always be positivity there to find, if that is what you seek.

Great partnerships should benefit us all

If you don’t plan to have someone work for you, you will work for someone else. There is no in-between.

A very focused Chinese government, with firm, long-term social and economic goals, and an increasingly assertive international voice, is feeling more pressure from the Chinese dreamers, and is putting more pressure on foreign business interests. The foreign multinationals have their purposes, but also feed resentment that so much of China’s hard work results in easy profits for foreign brands and foreign shareholders. This new reality requires foreign firms to pay much more attention to the social context, and to ensure that they can manage the increased political and regulatory risk. From "Risky Business in China" (Palgrave, September 2014)

There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

You can’t save dollar by dollar to become wealthy.

Don't focus all your time and effort on creating the templates & perfecting the documents. Answering key product questions is more critical.

If you find even the smallest way to make people smile, they’ll remember you more for that smile than for all your other fancy business-model stuff

Don't deal bitterly with the enemy you see. Deal with the greater enemy that sent your enemy to you. If you focus on dealing with the "retailer", remember that the "producer" can employ more "retailers" and what that means is that your life business will redefine you as "dealer of enemies". Satan is behind the plot!

If you do not take opportunity   to   advance and reward   the   deserving,   your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.

Abundance is more than your money, your title or your profession.

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.

We all want to ‘count for something’–to make a difference. And, accountability helps us get where want to go in terms of achieving our goals and fulfilling our responsibilities.

At the heart of excessive individualism is a broken heart

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

If I can make you feel the same way that I feel about my product or service we'll have a meaningful conversation about it and how it can help. The trouble is that most sales people don't feel anything. Nothing at all.

We all have a little entrepreneur inside of us. Wanting to leverage it is what gives us an entrepreneurial spirit and an entrepreneurial mind. Actually doing it makes one an entrepreneur.

Social media isn’t a brand strategy. Social media is a channel. While it’s important for a brand to develop something to say, it’s more important to create something that will be heard.

Creativity is a unique characteristics that a person can posses from his or her own knowledge when he or she is creating changes in society that can benefit a vast amount of people.