Business Quotes - Page 26

Mom has the Touch. She knows what flowers go with what occasions, what hors d'oeuvres work with what people. She believes passionately in the power of food to heal, restore, and stimulate relationships, and she has built a following of loyal customers who really hope she's right. If she's wrong, says Sonia, no one wants to know.

Sales is a constant state of information gathering and analysis. There are numerous factors that will affect your sale – from market position, to manufacturing capacity, to a seemingly harmless tidbit of information received over lunch. The more quality information you have, the better your analysis, and the better your sales results will be.

Delaying is the most dangerous thing you can do in business.

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.

Success is a place in time, Don't be late

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

Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea

No daydreaming. No music, film, art, creative thinking or business.

Make project plan as simple as possible, but not simpler.

If you’re just starting out, don’t focus on the cheese, focus on the cow.

There is no room for emotion in business.

99% of businesses fail for one reason. They never start.

A diligent hawker today, can be a great tycoon tomorrow

To an extent, we get the big businesses we deserve. No conversation about the role of business in society is complete without considering the role of the public. Ultimately it is the public – as consumers, as citizens – who create the environment in which business operates.

Some activities may look attractive, but you don’t have any business dating them, else they break you up. It may be good, but not right. Flee from good things and do right things!

Don't find customer for your products,find products for your customers.

All we cared about was dividends. Well, we can't do business that way today. We have learned that what's best for the countries we operate in is best for the company. Maybe we can't make the people love us, but we will make ourselves so useful to them that they will want us to stay.

Political skills are essential career competencies to get ahead and stay ahead.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

one of the most important things you can do for yourself is have a strong sense of your own greatness... because many things and people will misjudge you and count you at what they thing you are or can achieve. Their limits are not true... yours are

No secrecy, no business.

Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

If we ask the right questions, we can change the world with the right answers.

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, “if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?

If I want help I need to pay for it~ and to pay for it~ I need more money.

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.

Unfortunately, the worst part of a product/service is the seller.

In regards to life goals, you need to think about where you are now, and plot out where you want to be a year from now, two years from now, and then five years from now.

Sleep is the multiplier of energy.

There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

Time change - Moments don't.

To become a distinguished entrepreneur, you need to have an undeniable, unquestionable and unmovable passion for your vision.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

The higher you rise in the business ladder, the smaller your balls become.

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

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

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

Launching a brand is not for those with thin skin. It takes courage, intelligence and foresight.

We do not claim to be more unselfish, more generous or more philanthropic than other people. But we think we started on sound and straightforward business principles, considering the interests of the shareholders our own, and the health and welfare of the employees, the sure foundation of our success.

These women, these Shark Tank Mompreneurs are so passionate about what they created and what they are doing, and that just shines through. That's a major reason why they nailed their audition.

Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under the dominion of the plunder league of the professional politicians who are controlled and sustained by the great beneficiaries of privilege and reaction.

Avoid selling to dumb customers, there aren't enough left!

20 percent customers give you 80 percent of the business? Are you focusing on them?

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

For organisations to become truly sustainable we believe it is essential to create a new organisation model: a more cooperative leader, a new way for people to cooperate inside the organisation and a new way for organisations to be measured by society.

Why is it there’s no aisle in a grocery or department in a store or menu on a website for “average stuff” or “beige products”? FACT: People never got passionate about mediocre and average. While consumers and clients can find “best deals” and “natural foods” and “artisan goods,” one doesn’t find an aisle or a website menu tab offering “average stuff” without excelling in something (which might explain that while vanilla is necessary for the ice cream sundae, it’s the hot fudge we all crave and talk about).

What would you choose if you knew you couldn't fail?

Its easier to start a global business than a local one, make your business one where you can work from anywhere in the world

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does.

There are no keys to success - only tools.

If you KNOW that you’re FUCKED Then you’re NOT If you think that you’re NOT THEN YOU ARE!Isn’t that lovely? Iambic pentangle?

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.

Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business ?

A plan that is not written is just an idea.

If you think training is expensive, try ignorance.

Customers, like spouses, can be at your beck and call if you give them what they need, when they need it and how they need it. Massage their ego and you have them by the heart.

Trust me. In a very short time, you will become sought out by those in your network. Initially for your sound advice, but soon after as a provider of service. Few people seek advice about a subject that doesn’t require a solution.

Objectives are only words written on paper without passion and desire