Business Quotes

Only Getting the A and Z with out the B through Y, leaves you SOL.

Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music.

Do not assume that people are seeing you. The more you can clarify, optimize, and engage your fans and strangers with branded marketing and merchandise, the better chance you have of being seen and then heard.

At some point in any adult life, we have to understand that business decisions cannot be made with an emotional bias.

The smell of new office supplies is so satisfying while being kicked out of Staples for inappropriate behavior with a file folder is so embarrassing.

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

Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

Entrepreneur, if your're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.

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.

You have to grab the goal, visualise your vision, excel in excellence and then become distinct in distinction.

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

Entrepreneur, stay hungry, stay humble & stay hopeful.

You are a manager nonetheless who you are. There is a business worth keeping and you are the manager of that business. Yes, the business of your life. There is a big asset worth managing. Yes, your choices. As a manager of your own life, your choices are your assets. They form the pivot for the doom or boom of the business of your life. Some will be great managers and others will collapse the business of their lives by their choices or stay in mediocrity with the business of their lives.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

He is Your Customer, the Reason behind Your Customs.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?

Brockhurst, the champion of individualism, was soon launched on his favorite topic."The great fault of the American nation, which is the fault of republics, is the reduction of everything to the average. Our universities are simply the expression of the forces that are operating outside. We are business colleges purely and simply, because we as a nation have only one ideal—the business ideal.""That's a big statement," said Regan."It's true. Twenty years ago we had the ideal of the lawyer, of the doctor, of the statesman, of the gentleman, of the man of letters, of the soldier. Now the lawyer is simply a supernumerary enlisting under any banner for pay; the doctor is overshadowed by the specialist with his business development of the possibilities of the rich; we have politicians, and politics are deemed impossible for a gentleman; the gentleman cultured, simple, hospitable, and kind, is of the dying generation; the soldier is simply on parade.""Wow!" said Ricketts, jingling his chips. "They're off.""Everything has conformed to business, everything has been made to pay. Art is now a respectable career—to whom? To the business man. Why? Because a profession that is paid $3,000 to $5,000 a portrait is no longer an art, but a blamed good business. The man who cooks up his novel according to the weakness of his public sells a hundred thousand copies. Dime novel? No; published by our most conservative publishers—one of our leading citizens. He has found out that scribbling is a new field of business. He has convinced the business man. He has made it pay.

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

What would be the natural thing? A man goes to college. He works as he wants to work, he plays as he wants to play, he exercises for the fun of the game, he makes friends where he wants to make them, he is held in by no fear of criticism above, for the class ahead of him has nothing to do with his standing in his own class. Everything he does has the one vital quality: it is spontaneous. That is the flame of youth itself. Now, what really exists?""...I say our colleges to-day are business colleges—Yale more so, perhaps, because it is more sensitively American. Let's take up any side of our life here. Begin with athletics. What has become of the natural, spontaneous joy of contest? Instead you have one of the most perfectly organized business systems for achieving a required result—success. Football is driving, slavish work; there isn't one man in twenty who gets any real pleasure out of it. Professional baseball is not more rigorously disciplined and driven than our 'amateur' teams. Add the crew and the track. Play, the fun of the thing itself, doesn't exist; and why? Because we have made a business out of it all, and the college is scoured for material, just as drummers are sent out to bring in business."Take another case. A man has a knack at the banjo or guitar, or has a good voice. What is the spontaneous thing? To meet with other kindred spirits in informal gatherings in one another's rooms or at the fence, according to the whim of the moment. Instead what happens? You have our university musical clubs, thoroughly professional organizations. If you are material, you must get out and begin to work for them—coach with a professional coach, make the Apollo clubs, and, working on, some day in junior year reach the varsity organization and go out on a professional tour. Again an organization conceived on business

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

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.

Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn’t happen by accident.

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 is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.

Brian E. Boyd Sr.

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.

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

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.

When it comes to getting a job or client, congruent value is aligning the employer's need with your value add.

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

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

The art the wealthy use in business is to jump.

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

You need a team for war, not for negotiation.

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

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

Redundancy is my favourite business strategy.

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

Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price.

In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value.

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

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

World can run without money and currencies but not without business and trade.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

If all the businesses in town are run like country businesses, You are going to have a country town

William Faulkner

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

Your dreams can earn you money and provision when you don’t only have fans, but customers.

Israelmore Ayivor

Capitalize on charm by continually captivating your customer.

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

Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]

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.

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

Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.

Don't focus all your time and effort on creating the templates & perfecting the documents. Answering key product questions is more critical.

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