Business Quotes

To me everything in business boils down to this: do you genuinely care about your customers - or just their cash?

Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start.

A common mistaken conclusion made by companies is they think ‘people are cheap’ and want only the best price. That’s only true if you’re only giving them the same dismal choices with no differentiation and thus no value. That is the exact point when consumers start to look at price.

David Brier

One of the things I've learned about vision is people will grab it mentally or, have a crab mentality.

Onyi Anyado

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

A major reason many Americans still struggle to find meaningful work is because they are using tactics from the 1990s and early 2000s. The future for employment is now here...and it's online."~February 21, 2013 as featured by CBS Money Watch

Matt Keener

To an extent, we get the big businesses we deserve. No conversation about the role of business in society is complete without considering the role of the public. Ultimately it is the public – as consumers, as citizens – who create the environment in which business operates.

Jon Miller

Don't wait to be compelled to do great work.

Richie Norton

Lesson learned - in doing business, do not COMPETE but be COMPETITIVE.

Diana Valerio

We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

Amah Lambert

The art the wealthy use in business is to jump.

Ehab Atalla

Anything a customer can do for themselves is where service stops and relevance begins.

Jim Blasingame

You need a team for war, not for negotiation.

Amit Kalantri

Even if your company’s financial condition can withstand the inefficiency of quality service, your brand likely won’t.

Jim Blasingame

This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.

Amit Kalantri

I don't beg for those things which can be earned.

Amit Kalantri

Targets are achieved sooner out of need, than out of greed.

Amit Kalantri

Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival.

Chris Murray

Competition in business is a blessing, for without it, we wouldn't be motivated to improve.

Nabil N. Jamal

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

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

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

It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry.

Gerry Geek

Do not compromise on the quality and your customers will not negotiate on the price.

Amit Kalantri

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.

Andrew Leigh

For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.

Andrew Griffin

The house you built can cave you in if you didn't do it right.

Unarine Ramaru

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

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

If the reason of your sleeplessness is competition, then you will make a successful businessman.

Amit Kalantri

Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score

Rasheed Ogunlaru

If the people in an organization think the company is small, they will act that way. If they think the company is big, they will act that way.

David J. Greer

As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, 'Don't write a book, write a page...Don't expect to be a great manager in your first six months, just try to set expectations well.

Shawn Achor

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

Every true leader is in the business of God. The good news is that God’s business does not yield loses. Most leaders fail because they claim to be in a business whose owner they never know!

Israelmore Ayivor

Some activities may look attractive, but you don’t have any business dating them, else they break you up. It may be good, but not right. Flee from good things and do right things!

Israelmore Ayivor

Don’t waste time worrying about work/life balance, or looking for your best self, sham “secrets” or any other snake oil being pushed by sloppy hippies who have never built a business, let alone a bankroll, or you will wake up 20 years from now poor, pissed off and primed for a midlife crisis.

Ari Gold

The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.

Michael Bassey Johnson

It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace.

David Brier

There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales 300% in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests 500% in 12 months.

David Brier

Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing.

David Brier

Look at every ‘revolutionary’ brand or category killer, it had an app, or a feature, or a functionality, or a user experience nobody else at that point could offer. I refer to this as ‘the Killer App’ principle.

David Brier

We know there are thousands of ways to solve any branding problem a company faces, yet the only valuable solutions are the effective ones. Doing something ineffective in half the time–or “more efficiently” or “more economically”–isn’t progress, but is instead bad business. Very bad business.

David Brier

Brand growth and dominance is created by having the highest brand value, not the lowest price tag.

David Brier

The thing about Web companies is there's always something severely fucked-up. There is always an outage, always lost data, always compromised customer information, always a server going offline. You work with these clugey internal tools and patch together work-arounds to compensate for the half-assed, rushed development, and after a while the fucked-upness of the whole enterprise becomes the status quo. VPs insecure that they're not as in touch as they need to be with conditions on the ground insert themselves into projects midstream and you get serious scope creep. You present to the world this image that you're a buttoned-down tech company with everything in its right place but once you're on the other side of the firewall it looks like triage time in an emergency room, 24/7. Systems break down, laptops go into the blue screen of death, developers miskey a line of code, error messages appear that mean absolutely nothing. The instantaneousness with which you can fix stuff creates a culture that works by the seat of its pants. I swear the whole Web was built by virtue of developers fixing one mistake after another, constantly forced to compensate for the bugginess of their code.

Ryan Boudinot

What’s the best home-based business opportunity in the world today? Without a doubt, it’s network marketing. Like it or hate it, network marketing has created more millionaires than any other industry in history. There’s just one problem — it can be hard if you’re not used to it!

Kevin J. Donaldson

Going into business without a business plan is like going on a mountain trek without a map or GPS support – you’ll eventually get lost and starve!

Kevin J. Donaldson

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

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Be persistent, be persistent, they say. But please, do not mistake being a pest for being persistent.

Nike Thaddeus

Our customers are not our competitors. We compete for them, not with them.

T Jay Taylor

In Networking never underestimate anyones connection potential. Sometimes even a small office helper can connect you to the Business Owner !

Sampath K. Iyengar

A person's right to a job is as specious as his boss' right to success in business. There is no right to a minimum wage, just as there is no right to success in self-employment.

Rex Curry

Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs

Chris Murray

Take the wrong route sometimes and make fool out of yourself. Laugh at your mess ups because it will all become a funny story one day.

Mahyar Mottahed

Entrepreneurship is all about making life easier for humanity, while money becomes a bye-product.

Auliq-Ice

It is easy to launch a project if you have no clue about the cost and schedule.

Gerry Geek

When I was bartering to gain clients, I was self-sabotaging my business. I wasn’t making money, and the promised “exchange of advertising” wasn’t helping to grow my business.

Kim Beasley

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