Quotes by Business Consultants

You’ll never learn anything or impress anyone by making excuses and diverting blame.
Frank Sonnenberg
What we need now is a nation of great people who live to positively impact others and build enduring legacies
Fela Durotoye
Failing one time — or even several times — doesn’t make you a failure any more than losing one game makes you a loser.
Frank Sonnenberg
If the path you are walking today won't lead you to your desired destination, then you are STROLLING
Fela Durotoye
We can’t expect others to abandon their values any more than we would forsake our own.
Frank Sonnenberg
No one has the right to force his or her way of life on anyone else.
Frank Sonnenberg
Strong nations are built on SOLID HOMES not big houses
Fela Durotoye
Leadership is a SERVING relationship with OTHERS that inspires THEIR growth and makes the world a better place
Fela Durotoye
There's a place for talking and criticism. But there's also a place to let our ACTIONS do the talking!
Fela Durotoye
If your Idea cannot CHANGE the INDUSTRY, you have added no VALUE
Fela Durotoye
To be a convincing story, you've got to know what you're talking about. In EVERY detail."-Rayner Unwin
Jeff Shanley
Actions Matter: Do As I Do. Not As I Say.
Frank Sonnenberg
When you make a promise, you’re not giving your word in erasable pencil, you’re inscribing your commitment in indelible ink.
Frank Sonnenberg
Make a life while making a living.
Frank Sonnenberg
Appreciate what you have, while you have it, or you’ll learn what it meant to you after you lose it.
Frank Sonnenberg
In the innovation age customer experience is key. Your impression defines their expression
Fela Durotoye
Africa must remain on the path of democracy. But democracy MUST also remain about the PEOPLE, not about power
Fela Durotoye
If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.
Chin-Ning Chu
Follow your conscience. Sleep well.
Frank Sonnenberg
It’s easy to tune out your critics, but difficult to turn off your conscience.
Frank Sonnenberg
Listen to your conscience. You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life.
Frank Sonnenberg
Shared beliefs and values form the heart of every successful relationship and ultimately determine its success.
Frank Sonnenberg
If someone chooses to live a certain way, and it doesn’t infringe on anyone’s freedom, it’s their choice to make.
Frank Sonnenberg
Your Potential is all that you can HAVE but have not yet possessed. No limits. No boundaries
Fela Durotoye
Your Potential is an OBLIGATION.Its what you MUST be,do and have because you CAN. You Can, you Must, You will
Fela Durotoye
We must be the ones to re-define the world class standards of excellence
Fela Durotoye
Every time you give your word, you’re putting your honor on the line.
Frank Sonnenberg
Given the option, would you rather choose the right path, even though it’s difficult, or the easy route, knowing that you’ll be compromising your standards?
Frank Sonnenberg
Winning without honor, is worse than a resounding defeat.
Frank Sonnenberg
Knowing what’s right isn’t as important as doing what’s right.
Frank Sonnenberg
Everything has a price, but not everything should be for sale.
Frank Sonnenberg
…I came to understand that while many of us might default to measuring our lives by summary statistics, such as number of people presided over, number of awards, or dollars accumulated in a bank, and so on, the only metrics that will truly matter to my life are the individuals whom I have been able to help, one by one, to become better people.
Clayton M. Christensen
One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.
Clayton M. Christensen
While they go get the others, I figure out the details. The system I’ve set up is intended to "process’’ matches. It does this by moving a quantity of match sticks out of their box, and through each of the bowls in succession. The dice determine how many matches can be moved from one bowl to the next. The dice represent the capacity of each resource, each bowl; the set of bowls are my dependent events, my stages of production. Each has exactly the same capacity as the others, but its actual yield will fluctuate somewhat.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Well, I don’t. Not absolutely. But adopting "making money’’ as the goal of a manufacturing organization looks like a pretty good assumption. Because, for one thing, there isn’t one item on that list that’s worth a damn if the company isn’t making money.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net profit, ROI and cash flow.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.
Clayton M. Christensen
Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big. Ninety percent of all U.S. businesses are family owned or controlled. They are important not only for the food, drink, clothing, and tools they sell us, but also for providing us with intellectual stimulation, social interaction, and connection to our communities. We must have mom & pop stores because we are social animals. We crave to be part of the marketplace.
Robert Spector
Ask yourself whether the problem will matter in a year or two. If not, it may be a trivial issue unworthy of your concern.
Frank Sonnenberg
The only way an annoyance can bring you down is if you let it.
Frank Sonnenberg
A clear personal brand communicates what you have to offer and attracts desirable opportunities.
Don Maruska
The next time someone says, ‘The odds are against you,’ remember: If you don’t try, you forfeit the opportunity.
Frank Sonnenberg
Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.
Fela Durotoye
In all, Nigeria belongs to us all and we have a personal responsibility to see that it succeeds
Fela Durotoye
Measuring progress is often like watching grass grow. While it’s difficult to detect movement on a daily basis, it’s simple to see growth over time.
Frank Sonnenberg
Dreams, unlike eggs, don’t hatch from sitting on them.
Frank Sonnenberg
Hope is not some abstract, softheaded concept. It is an idea with an engine.
Don Maruska
Our nation is ripe with a multitude of successful people, who have achieved much for themselves with little impact on anyone else
Fela Durotoye
There are many countries but few nations. We are committed to building Nigeria into a most desirable nation to live
Fela Durotoye
If present rates of improvement continue, however, we would expect the cruising range of electric cars, for example, to intersect with the average range demanded in the mainstream market by 2015, and electric vechicle acceleration to intersect with mainstream demands by 2020.
Clayton M. Christensen
To measure market needs, I would watch carefully what customers do, not simply listen to what they say. Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group. Thus, observations indicate that auto users today require a minimum cruising range (that is, the distance that can be driven without refueling) of about 125 to 150 miles; most electric vehicles only offer a minimum cruising range of 50 to 80 miles. Similarly, drivers seem to require cars that accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour in less than 10 seconds (necessary primarily to merge safely into highspeed traffic from freeway entrance ramps); most electric vehicles take nearly 20 seconds to get there. And, finally, buyers in the mainstream market demand a wide array of options, but it would be impossible for electric vehicle manufacturers to offer a similar variety within the small initial unit volumes that will characterize that business. According to almost any definition of functionality used for the vertical axis of our proposed chart, the electric vehicle will be deficient compared to a gasolinepowered car.This information is not sufficient to characterize electric vehicles as disruptive, however. They will only be disruptive if we find that they are also on a trajectory of improvement that might someday make them competitive in parts of the mainstream market. The trajectories of performance improvement demanded in the market—whether measured in terms of required acceleration, cruising range, or top cruising speed—are relatively flat. This is because traffic laws impose a limit on the usefulness of ever-more-powerful cars, and demographic, economic, and geographic considerations limit the increase in commuting miles for the average driver to less than 1 percent per year. At the same time, the performance of electric vehicles is improving at a faster rate—between 2 and 4 percent per year—suggesting that sustaining technological advances might indeed carry electric vehicles from their position today, where they cannot compete in mainstream markets, to a position in the future where they might.
Clayton M. Christensen
You will serve. Either someone else's vision and purpose, or your own.
Alan Froggatt
We need to adopt a set of common values and be ready to live out those values
Fela Durotoye
Values are like a pilot’s flight plan . . . without them you’re flying blind.
Frank Sonnenberg
No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process
Fela Durotoye
As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.
Jay Abraham
When you don't know where you are going in life (No Clear Destination), you don't need direction... you need Divine Revelation
Fela Durotoye
Always give everything 110 percent. It's the extra 10 percent that everyone remembers.
Frank Sonnenberg
Respect is priceless. Earn it every day!
Frank Sonnenberg