Business Quotes - Page 35

A business without sales is just ego masturb*tion.

Mother Nature continues in motion while your mind is segmented with probabilities. Remembering your night dreams shows exactly this - fleeting scenes of experience with nothing in between. Dee-anne Hayes

You have no idea how destructive and wasteful your infrastructure is because you don't need to use it the way the workforce does... Drive the forklift, use the database, fill out the form, submit it to HR, and find out how long it takes to get a response. Use your own infrastructure.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

Commerce does not have to be a ruthless, brutal enterprise that damages people’s lives. It can be a source of happiness, healing, and hope.

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked, “What do you think about this logo?” I’d be rich.

Although some organizations today may survive and prosper because they have intu- itive geniuses managing them, most are not so fortunate. Most organizations can benefit from strategic management, which is based upon integrating intuition and analysis in decision making. Choosing an intuitive or analytic approach to decision making is not an either–or proposition. Managers at all levels in an organization inject their intuition and judgment into strategic-management analyses. Analytical thinking and intuitive thinking complement each other. Operating from the I’ve-already-made-up-my-mind-don’t-bother-me-with-the-facts mode is not management by intuition; it is management by ignorance. Drucker says, “I believe in intuition only if you discipline it. ‘Hunch’ artists, who make a diagnosis but don’t check it out with the facts, are the ones in medicine who kill people, and in management kill businesses.

To me everything in business boils down to this: do you genuinely care about your customers - or just their cash?

A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else’s.

Leaders are never measured by their success but rather by the success of those they've been entrusted to lead. Therefore, a leader can never be considered successful until those they lead are successful.

They have to say SOMETHING. Maria Bartiromo can't exactly look into the camera and say that the Dow is down half a percent today because of random Brownian motion.

If you can 'hire tough,' you can 'manage easy.

I've finally decided to write about profit for a changeBut before I really started I already started to feel lameBaby what's it to a beast who manely to money remains untamed

Running a business well means knowing when it's time to make profit.

In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value.

The biggest mistake brands make are trying to “sell their stuff” rather than clarifying what people are actually buying.

Quickness means you are hustling.

What would you do if you weren't afraid?

The goal is to build a profitable business, not maintain an expensive hobby that will leave you in the poorhouse.

If you're not called crazy when you launch something new, it means you're not thinking BIG enough.

A good entrepreneur is a good teacher.

do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

Poor people waste time, rich people save time. Poor people who invest time are no longer poor.

To become distinguished in your industry, you have to constantly manage, master and maximise your time.

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science.

The symbol of the Lotus flower gives a precious teaching that can inspire us to deal with life in the best possible way. Its roots take nourishment from muddy waters and yet bloom in full delicacy and beauty on the surface. Similarly, to have a positive mindset is a beautiful quality; nonetheless to be transformational it needs to be rooted firmly in reality to then blossom with the value which can be created from the muddy problem(s)

The kingdom of God works in all spheres of culture, whether church, family, education, government, arts, business, or media. It is time to stop operating under the mindset that these spheres ought to be separated into secular and Christian, hoarding all the ‘sanctified spheres’ into the church, thereby leaving the world struggling in a vacuum of death. When we suck all the living water into the church, the world is left to die of thirst.

You have to be clever in how you make money and save it, and clever in how you enjoy your life.

Affordable Care Act" roll out isn't Obama's fault. It's what happens when you elect a President without any real-world business experience.

Everyone is either building an audience or being an audience these days. Someone, somewhere in the world is thinking up content that will appeal to you as you read this. You are someone’s target audience.

Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity.

Leadership is influence

Hot passion is a bit like infatuation – it burns brightly, but fades quickly.

There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales 300% in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests 500% in 12 months.

Business is no more about making money than the human body is about making blood. Yes you need to make the stuff, but only to serve your higher aims.

Disrupting yourself is critical to avoiding stagnation, being overtaken by low-end entrants (i.e., younger, smarter, faster workers), and fast-tracking your personal and career growth.

The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people… Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavors that you could never otherwise pursue

I am love and light in action.

When it comes to getting a job or client, congruent value is aligning the employer's need with your value add.

Good managers don't set a goal to increase efficiency, but rather an implementation of business process improvements that result in higher efficiency as well.

Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory on one theme. But if you want to do original work you must start young, and young people are limited by the chair system. Even if students cannot become assistant professors at an early age they should be encouraged to do original work....Industry is more likely to put its research effort into its daily business. It is very difficult for it to become involved in pure chemistry. There is a need to encourage long-range research, even if we don't know its goal and if its application is unknown.

When we build on our strengths and daily successes — instead of focusing on failures — we simply learn more.

Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do.

Building positive customer experiences will help create passionate customers who will spread your message on their behalf - almost like an evangelist.

Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

Both terrorism and insurance sell fear -- and business is business

Everybody sells something to somebody every day, whether it’s a product, a service or just a case of making sure that they get their own way.

Every person is a project, God's project, I want to be the most profitable one.

I don’t believe it can be taught as if it were a recipe. There aren’t ingredients and techniques that will guarantee success. Parameters exist that, if followed, will ensure a business can continue, but you cannot clearly define our business success and then bottle it as you would a perfume. It’s not that simple: to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running; and, if you have a good team round you and more than your fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can’t guarantee it just by following someone else’s formula. Business is a fluid, changing substance.

If you keep trying to hit a four but you keep on getting only one run. Then chances are when you will hit a six you will get caught.

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Starting and profitably running a business is not just some achievement, it is heroism.

An organization with excellent internal communication will run smoothly, allowing its members to progress toward a mutual goal, which will ultimately affect the quality of external communication.

Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.

Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great

The potential of controlling and living a successful life according to your terms depends on how you think. Your perception is your world. You can create the life you want and in fact, you can even shape it the way you want it.