Business Quotes - Page 33

Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.

Real estate is the best investment on earth, however, when the music stops playing, which happens occasionally, don't be the one left without a chair.

It takes healthy, resilient leaders and employees to achieve great results.

Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who's at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales?

I often feel like the director of a cemetery. I have a lot of people under me but nobody listens!

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

You may create a inspirational & visually resplendent strategy map but without accountability its value is specious

Marry your offline and online systems. So when you meet someone in person, make sure to connect with them online, too!

Look inward for solutions to your greatest challenges.

When you walk in silence your excellence will always speak for you.

International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.

Convincing a team to believe in a vision takes sponsorship, commitment, and strong leadership. Commanding Excellence demonstrates how to create a culture that everyone commits to from the boardroom to the battlefield. A must-read for anyone who works in a goal-oriented environment

Don't make up problems you don't have yet. It's not a problem until it's a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway.The decisions you make today don't need to last forever. If circumstances change, your decisions CAN change. Decisions are temporary.Pay attention to today and worry about later when it gets here. Otherwise, you'll waste energy, time and money fixating on problems that may never materialize."~ An excerpt from the awesome book, "Rework

You have to actively listen to your clients and provide the service they’re looking for!

Life is about the moments you create, that you can keep it with you FOREVER. After everything is over,That is what we have or what we are left with.

Your words are powerful so what you say goes a long way to either establish or destroy you; this is why you should say things that God has said concerning you, not things that situations or circumstances say.

I’ll record what I’ve learnt on the subject of what I sell. What it actually is means little to anyone other than me, but what it does and how it helps, means everything to those who require it.

It is much more rewarding to get to the top of the mountain and share your experience with others than to show up by yourself, exausted.

Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality.

[Clayton] Christensen had seen dozens of companies falter by going for immediate payoffs rather than long-term growth, and he saw people do the same thing. In three hours at work, you could get something substantial accomplished, and if you failed to accomplish it you felt the pain right away. If you spent three hours at home with your family, it felt like you hadn't done a thing, and if you skipped it nothing happened. So you spent more and more time at the office, on high-margin, quick-yield tasks, and you even believed that you were staying away from home for the sake of your family. He had seen many people tell themselves that they could divide their lives into stages, spending the first part pushing forward their careers, and imagining that at some future point they would spend time with their families--only to find that by then their families were gone.

People are bad at looking at seeds and guessing what size tree will grow out of them. The way you’ll get big ideas in, say, health care is by starting out with small ideas. If you try to do some big thing, you don’t just need it to be big; you need it to be good. And it’s really hard to do big and good simultaneously. So, what that means is you can either do something small and good and then gradually make it bigger, or do something big and bad and gradually make it better. And you know what? Empirically, starting big just does not work. That’s the way the government does things. They do something really big that’s really bad, and they think, Well, we’ll make it better, and then it never gets better”.Building Fast Companies for Growth, Inc. September 2013

The most radical and far-reaching solutions often need rethinking of processes and deep questioning of the status quo-and these are hard.

Don’t blame others. it won’t make you a better person.

We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception.

Sometimes even a "Yes" can be fatal for our Souls

Best practices are those practices that generally produce the best results or minimize risk.

No longer will I measure myself against competitors, who don’t even know that a race is being run. From now on, I will measure myself against the man in front of me. I will measure myself against a new personal best, achieving my next ambitious goal.

You can’t be “it” for everyone. In fact, if you try to please everyone, you will please no one, especially yourself.

Manager! Have brain - use it!

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

Would you produce, create and bring value to the world if it weren't for money? Or would you veg out? The necessity of money keeps people relevant and active. The paradox is that people who stay relevant and active make money.

Delivering a project isn’t difficult. What’s difficult is delivering a project without first taking the time to plan properly

You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you’ve closed for the day and flips the board.

Outstanding success in life, leadership, business, marriage and ministry always come down to a test of whether or not you will make a sacrifice when no one else is watching. The key to our success is what we will do when no one will applaud us or even notice us.

If you have fallen down, you cannot go further down, so pick yourself up and aim high, you've got nothing to lose.

A real businessman value his partners like friends and his partnership like friendship.

Listen to your customers, not your competitors.

You have to grab the goal, visualise your vision, excel in excellence and then become distinct in distinction.

I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.

First make your business itself a brand and then every product you create will be accepted as a brand.

It's not everyone that likes RnB, Hippop or Hiplife. However, each of them has their fans. Meaning not everyone will like you as a person, your ideologies or your business.But if you persist and strategically position yourself, then you will attract a segment of the market that loves everything about you.

Business is boss, politics is servant.

Your VISION and your self-willingness is the MOST powerful elements to conquer your goal

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

I always knew what was most important to me. When I was growing up, nothing was more important than golf, but that’s the attitude of a young person who hasn’t a care in the world. Later on I figured it out. Family was first. Always. Then golf and business come after.

While a mission statement speaks to why a company exists, a vision statement communicates what you want to accomplishin the future.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

You are in control of your priorities – you can erase old priorities and define new priorities at will.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Bucketing your time or your tasks keeps you in the zone.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

We would pay the bills. We would pretend to be high-class. This was compromise. This, I guessed, was business.

My passion is to keep my clients permanently satisfied with the quality of my work

When you create a company culture, you are drawing your lines in the sand for you, first & then for anyone else who does business with you.

Business does not need planning anymore. It demands out-of-the-box thinking.

Lean brands are the result of continually testing assumptions.

It doesn't matter to me that my leaving will cost you money. It doesn't matter that my space will take time to fill. What matters is that I'm happy and if you're not willing to invest in me, then I'm willing to cost you money.

If you have dreams, we give them wings