Quotes by Authors - Page 196

Unless you're prepared to deal with the aftermath, never invite yourself to a situation where your presence is not requested or welcomed. Don't pull out a chair at someone else's table, then turn around and be hurt when you feel unwelcomed.
Terry a O'Neal
I love food, I love everything about food – the growing, the purchasing, the cooking, the eating, the nourishment, the connection, the celebration. To me, food is so central to everything important in life – how we eat and how we feed others is such a strong reflection on who we are, our values, and how we live. And we get to express and enjoy this three times every single day!
Alyce Alexandra
Today, it isn't unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket. The average distance our meat travels hovers arounf fifteen hundred miles.
Jonathan Safran Foer
The simple rule to abide by and become excellent is that “Don’t see what you have achieved yesterday with the same pleasure eyes you used to see it when it was done by you”. Look forward and do better than you did earlier!
Israelmore Ayivor
No matter how short or long your journey to your accomplishment is, if you don't begin you can't get there. Beginning is difficult, but unavoidable!
Israelmore Ayivor
Refuse to become a victim of your circumstances and give a lift to your potentials each and every day against the wish of any obstacle you encounter!
Israelmore Ayivor
It's not bad to cough. But cover your mouth when coughing. It's not bad to complain. But cover your mouth when complaining, else you'll spread infections of complains on us!
Israelmore Ayivor
Complains are like the clouds that produce no rain no matter how thick they gather. Never depend on your complaint thinking they are stair cases. Drop that thing.
Israelmore Ayivor
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Negative people can only infest you with discouragements when they find you around... Just get lost and get saved!
Israelmore Ayivor
A little "thank you" that you will say to someone for a "little favour" shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen "greater favours". Learn to say "thank you" and why not?
Israelmore Ayivor
Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.
Michael Bassey Johnson
No matter what your reason for wanting to start your own business, developing the foundation is the same. Laying a solid foundation for you business will provide you with a road map to follow as you build your business. As you work through the Start a Business Step-by-Step Workbook you will define the company’s mission, decide what business entity is right for your business, name your business, determine the pricing for your products or services, formulate your financial projections, define your competitors, survey consumers regarding your products or services, determine the marketing methods right for your business and more.
Jeanne A. Estes
If you rob too much from one person, it becomes murder. If you steal little by little, it looks like business. Just find a way to refine it. The Internet has made it possible to connect to the whole world via one platform. Steal a penny from each person, call it service charge and you will be a millionaire. The volume makes a difference.
Ravindra Shukla
Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Cliché: "The MBA changed my life."What it really means: "A fantastic career, a great social life and a healthy bank balance...three of the things I had before I started the program.
Sameer Kamat
Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn’t happen by accident.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
When it comes to getting a job or client, congruent value is aligning the employer's need with your value add.
Richie Norton
The way to be irreplaceable is to become a social innovator. Start projects that motivate you to save the world and simultaneously make you money (and create mindshare) for your company. Social innovation makes magic happen.
Richie Norton
Don't wait to be compelled to do great work.
Richie Norton
Anything a customer can do for themselves is where service stops and relevance begins.
Jim Blasingame
Even if your company’s financial condition can withstand the inefficiency of quality service, your brand likely won’t.
Jim Blasingame
You need a team for war, not for negotiation.
Amit Kalantri
Successful companies are built by investing large amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat.
Amit Kalantri
Redundancy is my favourite business strategy.
Amit Kalantri
This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.
Amit Kalantri
Targets are achieved sooner out of need, than out of greed.
Amit Kalantri
I don't beg for those things which can be earned.
Amit Kalantri
In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value.
Amit Kalantri
Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price.
Amit Kalantri
World can run without money and currencies but not without business and trade.
Amit Kalantri
Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish to God I could buy black hair products from black people for once. How we going to make it in this country if we don't make our own business?
Zadie Smith
Just preaching "you are blessed" to a congregation is like giving them a big fertile land. They need the seeds to plant on it; they need business ideas, a little of which is enough!
Israelmore Ayivor
I have noticed over the past three years that most African Christians depend on their pastor or preachers for directions in life than their lecturers, politicians and nurses. That tells why most people refuse certain medical priorities with regards to their pastor's messages. I think if every pastor should have entrepreneurial knowledge coupled with spiritual integrity, Africa will shake!
Israelmore Ayivor
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!
Israelmore Ayivor
In Business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.
Anonymous
As 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!
Israelmore Ayivor
If all the businesses in town are run like country businesses, You are going to have a country town
William Faulkner
Capitalize on charm by continually captivating your customer.
Ryan Lilly
Your dreams can earn you money and provision when you don’t only have fans, but customers.
Israelmore Ayivor
You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.
Ryan Lilly
Shape your mindsets or your mindsets will shape you.
Mindy Hall
Points of views that are expressed on Twitter don’t intend to offend, but rather defend and open the conversation up to everyone so that no one has to pretend.
Germany Kent
Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]
Germany Kent
Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.
Ryan Lilly
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.
Mark Gallagher
It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry.
Gerry Geek
The house you built can cave you in if you didn't do it right.
Unarine Ramaru
Do not compromise on the quality and your customers will not negotiate on the price.
Amit Kalantri
Don't focus all your time and effort on creating the templates & perfecting the documents. Answering key product questions is more critical.
Brian Lawley
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
Criss Jami
If the reason of your sleeplessness is competition, then you will make a successful businessman.
Amit Kalantri
Business is boss, politics is servant.
Amit Kalantri
Developing and having a positive outlook is never a coincidence; it’s a choice. You can choose to look horrible or admirable; that is no business of another person. The mind is the distillery, where all choices are brewed.
Israelmore Ayivor
The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it.
Ryan Lilly
Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Advertisement shouldn’t look like information, it should look like a promise.
Amit Kalantri
You didn’t warn us about this, Readier,’ said Stowley resentfully.Gilt waved his hands. ‘We must speculate to accumulate!’ he said. ‘The Post Office? Trickery and sleight of hand. Oh, von Lipwig is an ideas man, but that’s all he is. He’s made a splash, but he’s not got the stamina for the long haul. Yet as it turns out he will do us a favour. Perhaps we have been . . . a little smug, a little lax, but we have learned our lesson! Spurred by the competition we are investing several hundred thousand dollars—’‘Several hundred?’ said Greenyham.Gilt waved him into silence, and continued: ‘—several hundred thousand dollars in a challenging, relevant and exciting systemic overhaul of our entire organization, focusing on our core competencies while maintaining full and listening co-operation with the communities we are proud to serve. We fully realize that our energetic attempts to mobilize the flawed infrastructure we inherited have been less than totally satisfactory, and hope and trust that our valued and loyal customers will bear with us in the coming months as we interact synergistically with change management in our striving for excellence. That is our mission.’An awed silence followed.
Terry Pratchett