Business Quotes - Page 18

Yet in reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being accepted into the French nobility four centuries ago, though at least an aristocratic age was franker, and therefore kinder, about the odds. It did not relentlessly play up the possibilities open to all those with a take on the future of the potato crisp, and so, in turn, did not cruelly equate an ordinary life with a failed one.Our era is perverse in passing off an exception as a rule.

Alain de Botton

Before you start any business, you need to get your target audience down pat. Who do you want to serve? Who will your product/service benefit the most? Don’t worry about the rest.

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

The bottom-line is, that nothing should affect your bottom-line.

Mamur Mustapha

Your busyness cannot stop God's business to save his children.

tirumala

Like the weather or bonds between lovers, transformations can never be predicted. All energy transmutes one day or another, in one way or another. Either in its form or composition, or in its position or disposition.

Suzy Kassem

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

John Dewey

Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

A business plan is like a war plan, when you competitors know about it, it's no longer of any use

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows

Itzik Amiel

Be wary of the man who does not offer water, charges too much for water, asks for too much water, and the one who makes water his business.

Suzy Kassem

Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.

Alejandro Cremades

Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. People in business say that toner cartridges are in short supply, that they have updated the next shipment of these cartridges, and that they will finalize their recommendations at the next meeting of the board. They are speaking a language familiar and dear to them. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; executives walk among toner cartridges, caparisoned like knights. We should tolerate them--every person of spirit wants to ride a white horse.

William Strunk Jr.

Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American CEO can produce a new CEO.

Jean Baudrillard

Though you may be paid minimum wage, to the customers you are the face of the entire company.

Sophia Amoruso

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

Nike Thaddeus

When taking on a leadership role in business remember it's about relationships. If your people (aka employees) are taken care of then they will respect you and return the favor.

Michael A. Contés II

The higher you rise in the business ladder, the smaller your balls become.

Santosh Kalwar

You actually, waste time when you cry over wasted time. Time should be a guide that helps you focus. All you should worry about is ageing with unfinished business.

DaVyshka

It doesn't matter how many people you have on social networking sites. What matters is how you benefited them and how you benefited from them

Nash

Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price.

Agatha Christie

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

T Jay Taylor

Some of these tasks are interesting. Tinkering with machines is fun. Marketing decisions, especially how to manage the Web site and AdWords, are an intellectual challenge. Some are unpleasant but lead to a satisfying conclusion, like nagging customers for past-due payments. (They've always paid me, eventually.) Some are frightening, I can change an employee's life with my decisions about pay rates and whether to hire and fire. And many are just aggravating: the taxes, insurance purchases, legal issues, and some of the employee interactions. Each layer of government, each enormous and indifferent private bureaucracy, requires its own special knowledge: the right form filled out the correct way and filed at the right time. Learning how to complete on type of tax filing tells you nothing whatsoever about how to fill out the next form. One health insurer presents a quote one way, another in an entirely different way, and both require extensive study to determine the best choice. It's like stepping back to an old, old world where every tree, every rock, every stream is inhabited by its own resident spirit, and each needs to be mollified in the correct manner. Or very bad things happen. I didn't start my company to do any of this. I had no idea, when I decided that I would make furniture in exchange for money, that this was in my future. And the strange universe of administration expands as the company grows.

Paul Downs

In somebody’s mind, some upper-level suit that was looking at the bottom line and all those red numbers, it made more sense to unload five employees who collectively made a hundred thousand a year and ruin five lives, than it did to get rid of one job-redundant, mid-level manager earning the same amount.

Erica Larsen

In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. "We need to flip that model,” Ressler told me. “No matter what kind of business you’re in, it’s time to throw away the tardy slips, time clocks and outdated, industrial-age thinking.

Daniel H. Pink

In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you're too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

Mitch Albom

People speak broken Swahili on purpose. Business people for instance will speak Sheng – a mixture of Swahili and English – because that’s what people want to hear. And what is the government doing? They speak broken Swahili most of the time. Swahili is getting lost and I am really sorry for the future generations.

Enock Maregesi

The focus of the entrepreneur must always be on exchanging products or services for money, and anything that distracts from that like actually running a business, should be avoided where possible.

John Winterson Richards

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

Sampath K. Iyengar

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

Warren Buffett

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

Everybody sells something to somebody every day, whether it’s a product, a service or just a case of making sure that they get their own way.

Chris Murray

Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve

Chris Murray

Executing the solution means gaining customer commitment and delivering on your promises

Chris Murray

Earn the Right - Ensure you put this chunk of Sales Tetris in place first and all the other pieces just take their own positions naturally.

Chris Murray

The commitment gap is the massive distance between “yes” and “maybe

Chris Murray

If customers don’t trust you to help them at the beginning of the sales process, they certainly won’t trust you with their money at the end of it.

Chris Murray

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

Chris Murray

The ability to close sales effectively has never been confined to the last few moments of the conversation.

Chris Murray

Why do customers (and that includes you and me) find it so difficult to recall more than a couple of occasions when they felt that they were treated exceptionally by the salespeople who dealt with them?

Chris Murray

Social media is about connecting with people, not collecting people.

Karen Clark

Customers get exactly what they need, while you hit your sales targets and become incredibly successful – fair deal.

Chris Murray

Ty Inc.'s 1989 catalog had this on the back cover: "Warning: If anyone dare copy our creative designs and patents without written permission, ownership of your eternal soul passes to us and we have the right to negotiate the sale of said soul. Furthermore, our attorneys will see to it that life on Earth, as you know it, is not worth living.

Zac Bissonnette

I'd like to run away from you, but if you didn't come and find me.... I would die.

Anna Fraser

Great selling involves helping people to make great buying decisions.

Chris Murray

In many instances, the words “sell” and “influence” are completely interchangeable.

Chris Murray

I love the word 'dream.'For some, it’s something that’s completely unattainable, yet for others, completely attainable.Choose your definition wisely.

Colleen Ferrary Bader

When plan doesn't work do not change the goal, Change the plan ! #beingemployee

Stella Morey

When you begin to relinquish your ego, you will no longer feel compelled to prove to people how busy you are in an attempt to validate your sense of worth.

Miya Yamanouchi

Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity.

Paul Arden

Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks.

G.R. Gopinath

I don't know how to do it today, but I will know how to do it tomorrow and do it.

Shu Hattori

If you are going to complain, blame, or criticize, then do something about it... Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Shu Hattori

Show your vulnerability, but have faith. You will succeed. Growth is not glamorous.

Shu Hattori

one of the most important things you can do for yourself is have a strong sense of your own greatness... because many things and people will misjudge you and count you at what they thing you are or can achieve. Their limits are not true... yours are

Marsha Wright

People are bad at looking at seeds and guessing what size tree will grow out of them. The way you’ll get big ideas in, say, health care is by starting out with small ideas. If you try to do some big thing, you don’t just need it to be big; you need it to be good. And it’s really hard to do big and good simultaneously. So, what that means is you can either do something small and good and then gradually make it bigger, or do something big and bad and gradually make it better. And you know what? Empirically, starting big just does not work. That’s the way the government does things. They do something really big that’s really bad, and they think, Well, we’ll make it better, and then it never gets better”.Building Fast Companies for Growth, Inc. September 2013

Paul Graham

In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder in business, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.

Jamsetji Tata

We do not claim to be more unselfish, more generous or more philanthropic than other people. But we think we started on sound and straightforward business principles, considering the interests of the shareholders our own, and the health and welfare of the employees, the sure foundation of our success.

Jamsetji Tata

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