Business Quotes - Page 27

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

How you think matters. How you act matters more.

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in. One success is inherited, and the the next one is earned. While the last one is self-sought, self-served, and happens on its own terms.

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to , We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

In the meantime, I had to get dressed and go to work, because going to work in my pajamas was apparently the definition of unprofessional. Cookie's words. I looked it up though. She was wrong. Webster's mentioned nothing about pajamas.

An honorable leader must demonstrate a willingness to reveal his or her ‘inner self’ to their team. It builds trust and trust is essential. It’s also a sign of strength and authenticity, and people are attracted to those who are ‘real’ and authentic.

Poor practices are blunting email marketing’s effectiveness and keeping its ROI from being truly awesome.

He has the power to render us happy or unhappy, to make our service light or burdensome, a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks, in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up; what then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.

Be your own boss. If you're aiming for true wealth and freedom consider starting your own business.

A Bombshell’s constant struggle is living up to her God given potential while also battling in her mind the difference between her expectations and the world’s expectations.

People act in ways to maximize their self-interest within a company, so create incentives that align employee's objectives with the organization's mission statement. Reward compliance with core values as much as profitability, especially in the face of competitive pressures.

Have an attitude of positive expectation.

Products shouldn’t just work well, they must unfold well.

Boomers were the original Millennials.

Today it was commerce that Europe valued and it was the businessmen who, having exploited what the scientists and thechnologits had done for the world, now reaped the rewards.

If you aren't going out for business, you may go out of business.

Business is not about negotations, its about mutually finding a point of balance where both parties find their objectives meeting.

If we wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, we must not fix our minds on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to us, and let this enter as a factor into our calculations.

Having the understanding of God, God’s ambassadors are able to bring a country out of crisis, change politics, business and economy

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

I think my mission is to be in business so I can create a positive impact that will uplift the others around me. (p. 78)

Whether you practice craftiness in your business, you will have profit and if you do not practice craftiness, then also you will have [same] profit. Craftiness creates a liability for the next life. So God had said not to do craftiness. There is no benefit in it and there is infinite suffering.

There is no problem you can't take absolute advantage of.

Voters—here’s the real challenge: we don’t need empty promises made by politicians whose only goal in life is to get elected or re-elected. We need leaders with attributes that qualify them to lead us through the difficult challenges we’re facing.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us.

Dreaming isn't bad for you but not doing anything to craft your dream is.

Formal business situations are likely to be the least revealing because these are the times when all of us are most likely to have our ‘game faces' on.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

The real badge of honour at work is not to work longer than anyone else, but to work smarter than anyone else.

People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.

Darwin's Theory Survival of the Fittest, also applies into Business. Companies which consistently innovate, keep itself updated with customer's needs, market trends, check out their competition and accordingly make the strategy to evolve and keep them ahead of competition are the ones which are best suited for survival in Business Environment Evolution

God is looking for sons to send to the world of business to manage it for him.

The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others.

Interest in such organizations is too often linked to the fringe and marginal or thought to be little more than conspiracy theories. While such a critique is not entirely incorrect, we will see that hidden organizations are far more common, more important, and more consequential than we have typically allowed ourselves to admit. As a result, they also need to be better integrated into thinking about organizations by scholars, policymakers, and everyday citizens.

As Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines succinctly put it, 'Strategy, overdone; doing stuff, underdone'.

The only difference between success and failure is Lack of Vision

The key to unlock your entrepreneurial spirit is your imagination.

A friend’s 14-year-old niece was asked by her teacher what she wanted to be when she finished school. The teacher asked her to think hard about it and then get back to him with an answer. She didn’t know what to say to her teacher. A friend, on hearing the girl’s predicament, said: ‘Tell your teacher that, perhaps, the thing you want to be when you leave school hasn’t been invented yet.

If we try to see something positive in everything we do, life won't necessarily become easier but it becomes more valuable.

We designed Google to be the kind of place where the kind of people we wanted to work here would work for free.- Urs Hölzle

Know your biggest WHY? Why do you joined network marketing business. Why do you want to change your life? It is your WHY that pushes you and edges you towards the crown of glory in the industry. Discover your why and get things done quickly,

Entrepreneur, don't just read history, write it so people can see the future in the present.

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

Make it a habit to ask for business referrals. There's nothing pushy about it. People won't give you referrals unless you deserve them.

The only principle which will make you more content, less bitter is to live a life that has "Less excuses, more results. Less distraction, more focus. Less me, more we. Live with "Gratitude" not with "Greytitude

Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait — put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.

Do an evening review at the end of the day to reflect on what went well, and what you'd do differently next time.

The most important brands in the world make you feel something. They do that because they have something they want to change. And as customers, we want to be part of that change. These companies have a reason to exist over and above just to make a profit: They have a purpose. Yes, we admire the product they make. But the thing we love the most about them is the change they are making.

Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.

In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.

Everyone is watching you. If you don’t believe it, just pretend to fail and you’ll see many mockers. For this reason, work hard as if you are doing everyone’s business!

Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot hope to serve them

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

You remain a follower for life when you pay for what people do while nobody pays you for what you do. Do something impressive and become a leader!

Entrepreneurship is when an individual retrieves a red hot idea from the creativity furnace without the constraint of the heat of lean resources, and with each persistent blow of the innovation hammer shapes the still malleable idea against the anvil of passion, vision, insight, strategy, and principles to forge a fitting vessel of a creative concern.

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

In any case where someone is hurt within himself because of a mere jealousy over your success expedition, that is none of your business.You don’t bring yourself low in order to please those who envy you.