Business Quotes - Page 28

Your job is not to be a fire killer. Your job is to prevent fires.

Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.

If you take the approach of “earning” your customers’ business every day and treating them well, they’re less likely to try someone else.

Best practices are particularly valuable to those who are unfamiliar with email’s unique, often confusing rules.

A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles

Love your work and success is your next customer.

Train your new employee properly. Sounds so obvious, and yet it often doesn’t happen.

Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.

Moving continuously forward doesn’t necessarily get us to where we want to be, just somewhere other than where we started.

There’s a point on a runway during take-o that a plane reaches V1 speed. Once it passes V1, it has reached the point of no return. The point where take-o cannot be aborted. It has to take o . Or crash. In order to determine its V1 speed every plane will factor in its weight, wind-speed, weather conditions, slope, length of runway etc. So although there’s not a physical line drawn on each runway, it’s there.

I was never really about the money. Every business I've ever started has been more of a curiosity and a kind of "What if...

Knowledge is power is time is money.

We're interested in the mass-merchandising of anything. If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them too

If you put fences around people, you get sheep.

Invest in yourself so others can invest in you.

What you hold in your consciousness tends to manifest—the inner game runs the outer game.

Nearly all rich an powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.

Today's partners can be your competitors tomorrow. And today's competitors can be your partners tomorrow.

Be a worthy company and clients will come.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it s amazing what they can accomplish.

Endurance precedes success.

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

Being authentic, and being perceived as such by your audience, relies on your ability to ensure that every decision you make when it comes to your business is rooted in being true to yourself.

Sometimes Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker was thrown out of a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down.

Brand and product don’t compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you.

Ideas... [are] like babies - everything about their environment [says] they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project.(Attributed to Mike Jones)

Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.

Entrepreneur, noun: someone who takes calculated risks to add value to wider society with the hope of making money and building wealth

The reward for living my life in this manner? An existence like that of a seagull picking up scraps from the back of a fishing boat. Surviving day to day. Nothing left for tomorrow and no idea what tomorrow should be.

If you are in a position where you can reach people, then use your platform to stand up for a cause. HINT: social media is a platform.

The average artist has a naïve, unrealistic, and disconnected view of what the music industry is, how it works, what is involved in “making it”, and what actually is happening behind the scenes. Too many artists take at face value what they see on some TV documentary or read in a fan magazine. Whether you are working with others in a band, looking to connect with a manager, an agent, a label, or an investor, or you just want to work in the industry, it is more crucial than ever to know what you are working for and toward.

But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.

Creating a plan to bring in more business in a way that does not ultimately support yourannual goals is fighting against yourself.

People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work.

If today your company doesn’t know what its ONE Thing is, then the company’s ONE Thing is to find out.

If you aim to be the best then it's essential to evolve constantly, learn from past mistakes, look for new opportunities and have the flexibility to implement improved processes and solutions along the way.

Appraisal – the best resources will get the worst result

If you want to get a meaningful result: create something very complex, and then simplify it.

You recreate your world to your taste with God's Word in your mouth.

I don't know how to do it today, but I will know how to do it tomorrow and do it.

Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival.

Look for the positive qualities in your client's negative behavior.

You can't help everyone and most critically you can't help people who don't need you or see the value you have to offer

Artists, as a rule, understand nothing about business, or, for some reason or other, they aren’t allowed to understand anything about it.

Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn’t choose you because of your family name or existing wealth.Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival. And although I am not there yet, I have come to this place to become such a man.

Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x numbers of dollars". At lunch today, laboriously trying to explain some business procedure, he had said "x number of dollars" three times.

You have 30 to 50 times better chances of creating a successful business than at succeeding as a short-term trader.

In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus

Patience is a virtue not a vice.

Cookie cutters are for baking, not branding.

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea.

No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make.

friendly people serving friendly people

And finally have fun with it. If you’re not having fun, your speakers won’t have fun, and your participants won’t have fun. No matter what happens, remember that marketing should be fun, and life should be enjoyed.

We've all seen it. A #startup begins with a #dream, a #passion to do something others have missed or overlooked.

Failure to commit is as bad as failure to start.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

A good businessman knows how to make a profit. An engineer makes sure it runs well. We need more leaders who are task oriented.