Business Advice Quotes - Page 3

22% of current business-to-business salespeople will be replaced by search engines within the next five years.

We all desperately need brilliant sales professionals far more than ever before – to help us, guide us, keep us informed and stop us from making diabolically stupid buying decisions.

Salespeople need to “Earn the right” to become suppliers more than they ever did before.

We all need salespeople who understand the problem and can deliver a solution that works brilliantly for both sides.

We all need salespeople who deliver value that wasn’t there before they arrived.

I can’t and won’t promise you magic sales fairy dust or the Jedi Mind Trick for salespeople – they simply don’t exist.

Remember: when you walk into a DIY store to buy a drill, you don’t want the drill. Your end goal is to make a hole and, in order to achieve this, you have to buy the drill.

Your target market are more bothered about whether what you sell will get them promoted, sacked, recognised, accepted, praised or laid.

Don’t tell me you’re passionate about your job – show me that you’re passionate about helping people like me.

If what you sell doesn’t help me then why are you knocking on my door?

We all need salespeople with humility, honesty, integrity, empathy and an old-fashioned work ethic that ensures the job gets done.

Ignore the people who say that the sales industry needs to become professionalised: it already has.

We all need salespeople who help people with the same enthusiasm shown by a small child describing the best Christmas present EVER

Get up in the morning on a mission to save prospective clients from the shabby, ill-fitting, overpriced and worthless alternatives that those charlatans - who are your competition - are trying to get away with flogging them.

The salesperson you’d ideally like to be and the salesperson you’d like to encounter as a customer should roughly be the same, shouldn’t they?

Salespeople who think that it’s all about price aren’t required: If it can be sold on the internet at the lowest price, you can take the huge cost of a sales team out of the equation.

See money – currency - as the flow of energy and giving that cycles between you, others and me. Now let it flow kindly, fairly and mindfully.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

DOOR MONEY” To focus on door money means one is paying so much attention to the amount of money they are making at the door they do not consider there is much more profit to be made inside a venue.

When your pipeline is full – with business coming out of your ears – the notion of people asking for a discount will sound hilarious, because you’ll already be at capacity

Success is a matter of choice, not chance ~ Deepak Mehra

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

Elite Summaries

People who succeed in business aren't afraid to hear feedback from their customers -- they actually thrive from it.

Adam Kirk Smith

When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don't trust anyone!

If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.

So don't look over your shoulder or let fear and anxiety rule you. Go for broke. Let passion blaze your trail. Look ahead and pursue the dream that fits who you are as a person and a manager. Learn what you can, but don't get bogged down--in today's world, there's so much to know that learning can actually take the place of action and hold you back. Learn enough, then trust your gut and act. Be bold--or crazy--enough not to hold back. Take advantage of the freedom to be your own person. When the game is over, regardless of the score, you'll revel in what you've done.

Edward M. Hallowell

Without the right succession planning put to play in human resources, we build for the future without a future

Let them ask who you are but do not let others dictate who you should be.

Money Can make things better but a perfect relationship makes your life complete.

The Shoes Should fit! you can't build a business that is not yours.

Values are the measuring stick for howyou make decisions in business: goal setting, employee conduct, recognition, discipline—everything.

Your mission statement, vision statement, core values, and service standards provide a clear focus for all while keeping your team humble and hungry. It creates that family environment in which your employees enjoy coming to work and dealing with the challenges they face each day.

If your culture is how you do business internally, your brand is what people believe about you externally.

You can’t be “it” for everyone. In fact, if you try to please everyone, you will please no one, especially yourself.

You’ve got to get your team to not only understand your company brand, but also to understand their personal brand.

Even if you delegate that responsibility, ultimately you are the one responsible for howyour brand is portrayed.

Never take lightly that becoming an employer puts another person’s ability to provide for their life in your hands.

Train your new employee properly. Sounds so obvious, and yet it often doesn’t happen.

Treat your employees like you would want to be treated if you were an employee.

Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands.

Dan James

When you do it, you are not another dreamer

Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long.

Innovative ideas are the golden wealth of a growing business

A great sense of commitment builds a hardworking spirit.

When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.

Idowu Koyenikan

Seven Ways To Get Ahead in Business:1. Be forward thinking 2. Be inventive, and daring3. Do the right thing4. Be honest and straight forward5. Be willing to change, to learn, to grow6. Work hard and be yourself7. Lead by example

Great leaders inspire greatness in others.

Formal business situations are likely to be the least revealing because these are the times when all of us are most likely to have our ‘game faces' on.

Even during a mid-life crisis do not deviate from your goal. History remembers only those who succeed.

A Bombshell’s constant struggle is living up to her God given potential while also battling in her mind the difference between her expectations and the world’s expectations.

Sorry, Sister. You're not “normal.” You're exceptional. You're a Bombshell. If this was easy, everyone would be a successful business owner.

Remember, you are not aspiring for perfection, Bombshell. You are aspiring for progress, one step at a time.

If you cannot tie your marketing efforts to actual dollars that the electric company will accept, it’s time to adjust your plan.

Business is fluid and you can always improve and progress as your time and financial resources allow, and as your learningcurve shortens.

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

Your mission or purpose is like a magnet that keeps you moving is a well established direction

Doris P. Johnson

Your Core Values are the "glue" that holds your business together.

Doris P. Johnson

The best way to determine the Values you will enforce in your business is to clarify your personal values.

Doris P. Johnson

Your business values can make you soar above the competition.

Doris Perdue-Johnson

Transforming the complex to the simple is pure genius.

Doris P. Johnson

Remember: we’re drowning in information, but we’re starving for wisdom.

Elite Summaries

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