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.

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.

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.

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

He is Your Customer, the Reason behind Your Customs.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Solamon Energy Corp (SSL), "The Company", is neither offering nor has offered any shares for sale to the general public IPO and has not engaged any agents to do so, as shares can only be traded through GXG Markets by authorized brokers. Potential investors cautioned against solicitation by any unauthorized brokers to purchase SSL:GXG (London) shares. Economic Frauds has been reported. No affiliation with unauthorized offshore broker activity Fisher Capital (FCM) fraud.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Business is boss, politics is servant.

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

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.

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.

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

We can never fall short when it comes to recruiting, hiring, maintaining and growing our workforce. It is the employees who make our organization’s success a reality.

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.

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