Business Quotes - Page 2

Long term sustainability requires relentless endurance and gratitude in all your efforts.

The difference between companies that make $100,000 vs those that make $1bn dollars within the same industry is paying attention to detail.

If you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over

The easiest thing to sell is truth.

The more deference there is, the narrower the band of judgements on which organisations rely. Deference acts like the fatty deposits that build up in arteries, restricting the flow of fresh, oxygen-enriched blood across the system.

Invest like a bull, sit like a bear and watch like an eagle. (mantra for long term investing)

The choice is yours. Don't let your pronouncements destroy your destiny rather let them build your future up!

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

You need money to make money is nonsense! Entrepreneur people who started with nothing but an idea.

The lows may be the highs in disguise.

Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation. They are ideas that cause thrills, chills, and satisfaction, but there is no impregnation. Nothing is ever born of them. It’s intellectual masturbation.

Reputation takes decades to make. And can be lost in one tweet. Think about that before you press the send button.

We had all opted to take City's financial reporting course work, which, in theory, meant we wanted to write about stock prices and corporate takeovers. That, of course, was a joke. No one still in their twenties, and broke, goes into journalism to write about money—a subject in which they still have zero practical experience.

Some PR is about getting information about a great product or thingy out to the people who would enjoy it, while other PR is about creating a web of lies that conceals the fact that your company harnesses the energy produced by rape and uses it to make a chemical that kills forests for fun. Either way, you're going to need it.

The vain man buys to impress, but the REAL man buys to fulfil a need.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

We are faced with the incredible challenge of creating high quality content for a crowd of skimmers. The faster you understand this, the more effective your content tactics will become.

Be a smart learner. Learn from your mistakes and adjust your behavior accordingly.

If you don't like something don't protest from a far. Work within it to change it. Otherwise, you'll just be one voice of many rather than a trusted voice of influence.

Good leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own.

It is the leader’s job to lead by example and enforce the values and the behaviors to set the culture for any company or work group. Show me a company in rapid decline, and I will show you someone in charge who doesn’t give a _____.

Successful companies are built by investing lare amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat.

Your reciept is your library card." -- On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores.

The time to market yourself is all of the time.

Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather.

It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace.

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

To earn more, you must learn more.

One plus one makes two but two monologues do not make a dialogue. Of all the traits, characteristics, attributes and habits of today’s customers, the one that has serious consequences for businesses is this—today’s customer does not want to be just spoken to. She wants to be engaged in a dialogue. Today’s consumer expects to be part of the conversation about the product and/or service on offer. Today’s customer does not want to be fed with advertisements. Collaboration is what excites today’s customer.

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

Reputation is the panacea for those who lack confidence in their own decisions.

Self-imposed insanely impossible deadlines often help.

Inherently, Larry & Serge aren't paper-oriented - they're product oriented. If they have another 10 minutes, they want to make something better. They don't want to take 10 minutes to tell you something they did.- Terry Winograd

Inspiring leadership communication is not about great oratory or great charisma; rather it is about getting others to believe in themselves and believe in your cause, and then achieve more than they thought was possible.

A single employee, with one message, can succinctly capture the essence of a corporation the same way an iconic photograph captures a moment. Unfortunately, it is usually the negative massages that are published or used in lawsuits.

Your every positive action in your life will increase your self-esteem and this self-esteem will boost you for more positive action to take you on success

Don’t do business just for the money. Make it a hobby and the money will come automatically.

Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built.

As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes.

Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.

Don't burn your bridges until you build better ones.

Starting a business with brother either ends business or ends brotherhood.

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.

An email cannot be ignored. You may wish an email was not sent to you, because you learned what you did not want to know, but it must be acted upon because there is now a permanent record linking you to that information.

When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdown.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.

You can’t stay in a Blackberry mindset and become an Apple!

How you think about your customers influences how you respond to them.

Tenderhearted people are silent sufferers they just learn the art to fly with broken wings.

Every posting, message, or email creates an impression, a public persona, from which other people make judgments. We make judgments about others, but how often do we turn that critical analysis on ourselves?

That’s what marks out the successful from the nearly-rans. Focusing on what makes people itch rather than continuously presenting an entire catalogue of scratches.

The standard business model for corporations is to lie, confuse and deny anything that may threaten their profitability.

Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.

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

Some people applaud my no nonsense approach to life. Others say my methods are “extreme”. Where I’m headed and how I get there is between me and my God. So, if you don’t know where I’m going, how can you suggest I’m taking things too far?

Part-time effort means part-tim results.

In the business world cooperation is essential.

Most people don't know what they want. Some people kind of know what they want. Successful people know what they want and don't take no for an answer.

If you want things to change, you must change. If you want things to get better, you must get better.