Business Quotes - Page 42

I had a vision and made it happen.- Christina Lari, Olivia & Owen

When I was a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; " that business minded people can meet there easily!" Your dream must be situated where they can meet people!

Do not confuse location with direction. Location is where you are, direction is where you are going.

The moment I entered the bright, buzzing lobby of Men’s House I was overcome by a sense of alienation and hostility … The lobby was the meeting place for various groups still caught up in the illusions that had just been boomeranged out of my head: college boys working to return to school down South; older advocates of racial progress with utopian schemes for building black business empires; preachers ordained by no authority except their own, without church or congregation, without bread or wine, body or blood; the community “leaders” without followers; old men of sixty or more still caught up in post-Civil War dreams of freedom within segregation; the pathetic ones who possessed noting beyond their dreams of being gentlemen, who held small jobs or drew small pensions, and all pretending to be engaged in some vast, though obscure, enterprise, who affected the pseudo-courtly manners of certain southern congressmen and bowed and nodded as they passed like senile old roosters in a barnyard; they younger crowd for whom I now felt a contempt such as only a disillusioned dreamer feels for those still unaware that they dream—the business students from southern colleges, for whom business was a vague, abstract game with rules as obsolete as Noah’s Ark but who yet were drunk on finance.

Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull.  Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.

Carrying someone else’s weight is only going to weigh down on you and add stress, frustration, and pain. Choose who you work with and play with wisely.

One of Lyle's best assets was also his biggest downfall--he was a big dick.

Networking is an investment in your business. It takes time and when done correctly can yield great results for years to come.

Brands are either built on reruns or coming attractions. The future has no road map while the past does. Creating a brand that blazes new trails can sometimes be bumpy but will also allow you to be the first to discover something new, something meaningful and something that makes others ask, “Why didn’t we think of that?” Be very scared of “old tricks” and build a spirit of innovation. It’s the “old tricks” that have the highest risk, not doing something bold.

There are less chances of forgetting what you learn from failure - Sanjeet Veen

After each customer interaction, notice if you gave them a “happy to see you” kind of experience.

We all have this perfect little image of who we want to be, but it is unnecessary. Throw the image away. You're already you just be the best version of yourself.

Change the status quo or become it

If only employees knew this...there is no hand out just because you got a degree. You still gotta make $ for the biz (employer), if you choose not to make $ for yourself (freelancer / ent).

Building a business is like creating a picture & striving to be picture perfect in everything you do.

Policy makers and business leaders take note: money matters. But often the best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table—so that people can focus on the work rather than on the cash.

This next nugget of salesmanship cannot be perfected in a single afternoon. However, once you have it mastered, your competition will continuously believe you possess some mystical customer attracting formula

The moment you feel like you need to prove yourself, is the moment you need to be silent and walk away.

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.

If you don't appreciate your customers, someone else will.

Call on a business man at business times only and on business transact your business and go about your business in order to give him time to finish his busmess.

To leverage means to create a win-win situation.

Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth--stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality.

Believe you can and you will be halfway there.

To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder in business, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.

Love is the surprising emotion that company builders cannot ignore.

Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does.

If you don’t earn their trust at the beginning, they sure as hell won’t trust you with their money at the end.

Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it’s finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or “finishing the drill” in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.

if you fight with all your might,  there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner

Competition is simply an unestablished paternship.

The presence of God is so important in the life of believers. There is abundance of all you need to make your life comfortable in His presence.

Investments in greater email marketing sophistication often lead to even higher returns, not diminishing returns.

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you cintribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.

My view of the charity world is that compared with business, there is too much talk, way too many meetings and expert panels and blue-ribbon commissions, and not enough action. Or as an Australian friend of mine once opined: "Sometimes you just have to have a go and get on with it, mate!".

Wal-Mart is so large, its reach so great, that it has created an ecosystem in which its suppliers and competitors, and their suppliers and competitors, and their customers, all operate. Wal-Mart sets the metabolism, it sets the rules, of that ecosystem. Wal-Mart has inexorably changed our expectations as shoppers—and the Wal-Mart effect also extends to consumers who never shop at Wal-Mart. Likewise, Wal-Mart has reshaped the companies that supply it—and it has also reset the pace and the competitive landscape even for companies that try to do business outside the Wal-Mart ecosystem.

Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.

I’ve never been motivated by money – it doesn’t drive Me.

It is honor that makes commerce possible, dear brother. And the law courts, when men lack it.

I have come to realise that customers love companies that make them feel good about themselves—companies that reflect what they, the customers, believe about themselves. Customers fall in love with the company that says to them, "You are unique. You are great. We are the only ones who can make you feel that way. Fall in love with us and we will continue to make you feel great.

The point of school, after all, isn’t to do homework. The point of school is to learn. It was a mistake to assume that teachers—or anyone else, for that matter—automatically knew what was best for me.Rules are there to help us—to create a culture, to streamline productivity, and to promote success. But we’re not computers that need to be programmed. If you approach your bosses or colleagues with respect, and your goals are in alignment, there’s often room for a little customization and flexibility. And on the other side, those in positions of power shouldn’t force people to adhere to a plan for the sake of protocol. The solution, always, is to listen carefully—to your own needs and to those of the people around you.

I am here not to save money but to make more of it.

Don’t buy value-added. Be the one adding value. Create goodwill.

Simeon had to agree that his future plans, although quite grand, were like pictures painted in fog. Nothing he could put his finger on. No dream ever remained unchanged long enough to take on any weight or substance, just a notion of something better waiting for him somewhere in the future.

To be an ethical leader is indeed to be different. This kind of leader acknowledges the complexity of running a responsible business, yet tries to do it anyway.

Quality is not for compromise.

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

Your craft is comprehensive if it represents you.

Your company culture is made up of the family rules ofyour business that establish consistent expectations among all.

Don’t worry, I’m not quitting. I’ve decided I’m going to stay andmake his life a living hell while I run his business into the ground.--Kim to Abe

Advertising is legalized lying.

The Highest Reward for men and women 's devotion and dedication to excellence is not what one gets from it but what one he or she becomes through it.

Sometimes the best way to get other people to give up their egos is for you to give up yours first.

What's on your billboard?

Any family without an entrepreneur has a limited hope.

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

More you know, better advice you give. Less you know, more advice you give.

This long-tail distribution of returns is why it's important to be bold. Big winners pay for so many experiments.

...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small, discrete parts and assign each person to do only one of the many parts. In so doing, companies run the risk of taking away employees' sense of the big picture, purpose, and sense of completion.