Business Quotes - Page 7

Customers are speaking to you implicitly via their behavior, captured in the footprints they leave behind in your systems.

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life - that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators

Cold passion’ is calm, considered and long lasting. Both the brain and the heart are working together. Emotions have been takenout of decision-making. And decisions are given time, looked at from all angles. Cold passion is much more effective at getting results.

Life is like business. It's 20% what happens to you and 80% how you respond”.

This is not a dirty little secret which was discovered just yesterday. But, if you follow the Golden Rule, good things happen to you and those around you.

Logic and reason are the naphthalene balls we use to pack them away into a sandook called 'Someday'. But when that day comes we are too old, too poor, too tired or too lazy.

Some business coaches may disagree with me, but I wholeheartedly teach my community to start businesses around what you love doing.

We have not noticed how fast the rest has risen. Most of the industrialized world--and a good part of the nonindustrialized world as well--has better cell phone service than the United States. Broadband is faster and cheaper across the industrial world, from Canada to France to Japan, and the United States now stands sixteenth in the world in broadband penetration per capita. Americans are constantly told by their politicians that the only thing we have to learn from other countries' health care systems is to be thankful for ours. Most Americans ignore the fact that a third of the country's public schools are totally dysfunctional (because their children go to the other two-thirds). The American litigation system is now routinely referred to as a huge cost to doing business, but no one dares propose any reform of it. Our mortgage deduction for housing costs a staggering $80 billion a year, and we are told it is crucial to support home ownership, except that Margaret Thatcher eliminated it in Britain, and yet that country has the same rate of home ownership as the United States. We rarely look around and notice other options and alternatives, convinced that "we're number one.

If you are in the business of revenge, then you better dig two graves.

Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore.

The consumer is not a moron she is your wife.

A family man shouldn't trade his peace for profits, it is the job of a businessman.

After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for protection--not only from the big predatory cats but, as they began to lose their monkey fur, from the elements. Eventually, they started transposing their hunting fantasies onto cave walls in the form of pictures, first as an attempt at practical magic and later for the strange, unexpected pleasure they discovered in artistic creation. Time passed. Art came off the walls and turned into ritual. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present mindless, voracious trajectory, could land those of us lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again.

I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver.

At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden,  until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you.

A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs.

Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress, working hard for something we love is called passion.

Every crossroad in life has four options – quit, adapt, proceed, or accept, but quitting is a dead-end.

THE Biggest enemy of Truth is known as Facts in our Society

Customers want to make informed decisions based on useful information, valuable engagements and brand affinity.

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

A business person is all about solving problems.

And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.

In business, sport, entertainment and beyond an idea is worth next to nothing. The energy, effort, passion, talent, tenacity, strategy, resilience and resourcefulness to see it through and make something of it is worth everything.

The art the wealthy use in business is to jump.

... I believe that he will prosper most whose mode of acting best adapts itself to the character of the times; and conversely that he will be unprosperous, with whose mode of acting the times do not accord.

Successful companies are built by investing large amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat.

What are you doing to serve your customers a little more every day?

While friends are there to motivate us and keep us pleased. Our enemies are there to annoy us, which makes us work harder to beat them.

There was a product which seemed attractive, expensive, portable, beautiful and simple. Everybody talked about its beauty but they bought it for it's simplicity.

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. Love means nothing in tennis,But it's everything in life

Social Media= Business. Period.

In order to win as a contrarian, you need perfect timing and the perfect size.

Just because you may be a Genious, does not mean you are Smart.

Hisotry has shown again and again that a small group of highly determined people can achieve impossible things

You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

The path to happiness at work starts with a simple decision: You must want to be happy. If you don’t commit to being happy at work, you won’t be. You won’t make the choices that make you happy. You won’t take the actions needed to get there. You won’t change the things that need to change.

Stop entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if they telling you stuff about another person, they're going to tell your business to other people. If they say, "You know I heard........." More than likely it's in their character to share false information. Beware of your box, circle, square! Whatever you want to call it.

Just as layoffs were making a mockery of the team concept, employees were urged to find camaraderie and a sense of collective purpose at the microlevel of the "team". And the less teamlike the overall organization became with the threat of continuous downsizing, the more management insisted on individual devotion to these largely fictional units.

It’s your own personal statement of who you want to become, based on how you wish to be remembered.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

You truly help people with the things that you sell. Once you are aware of that vital piece of information every demonstration, every presentation, every transaction will be delivered with a light shining from your heart. From your heart will shine a beacon that tells all prospects you can truly help and that that is your sole purpose for being there.

Church and business are compatible

Today's opponents can be your allies tomorrow. And today's allies can be tomorrow's opponents.

Sceptics are persuaded by a good reputation, for it is an unspoken statement of proof.

To be a leader you need a lot of people dumb enough to follow.

Don’t set your own goals by what other people make important.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

No matter what the odds say, be even with who you truly are.

Creating an ideal customer profile helps you understand who are you talking to through your marketing, and it helps you carry that message and vibe through to your customerexperience.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

How many companies can say that the amount of customers who use their services second most often, and spend the second most amount of money with them, are “very negative”?

The wealthiest Person on earth is one who is free from the love of Money

They call it "business" because it does not become successful by a person's "idleness". Go get busy if you want to do business; but be busy for the right reasons!

Are engineers better at business than business people? It’s debatable. Business people certainly seems to have bigger houses, drive fancier cars, wear nicer clothes and have better looking mates. Engineers lack the time management skills to spend that kind of money. They waste all their time inventing ways to make the most money in the quickest, most efficient way possible. And then when they figure it out, they optimize the process.

When success is your only option, positivity has to be your only choice.

There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.

Great companies know that customer relationships in these times call for more than just having a great product (or service) backed by a great sales team. Customers have to be wooed until they fall so deeply in love with your offering that they will ward off advances from potential suitors. No matter how well you perform as a business, there are little things that can cause the relationship with your customers to suffer. The companies, products and/or services that we love are those that “touch” us in the right places at the right times. After all, that is what “romancing” the customer is all about—feeing your way to the customer’s heart.