Quotes Business Quotes & Sayings

A friend with seed (capital), is a business-man in deed. — Vikrmn

Your brand exists to differentiate. "Same crap, different day" won't do it. A day that goes by without breaking some sacred branding rule is a day a brand has lost to rise above the status quo. By breaking those rules with insight, intelligent and innovation, your brand can get heard in a world that's simply too busy to listen. — David Brier

Like the lotus flower, business blooms in the mud, and in the dark of night. The lotus is an amazing creation of God, because for all of its beauty, it is the sum total of work performed in a mess. It is also a creation that has the ability to create seeds in its habitat for a very long time without help from human hands. The lotus has the ability to survive beyond the mercurial nature of weather (storms, frost). The lotus is one strong, powerful, and resilient flower that blossoms in a substance (mud) that none of us would want to touch. — Robin Caldwell

Cookie cutters are for baking, not branding. — David Brier

The interesting thing is when you look at what people want to do on their phone, it's mail, weather, check stock quotes and news. That's Yahoo's business. This is a huge opportunity for us because we have the content and all the information people want on their phones. — Marissa Mayer

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. — Jack Welch

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

Attracting loyal customers based on price is like believing in the tooth fairy. — Colin Myles

If your business still needs to change, isn't it likely that your thinking needs to change first? — A.J. Sheppard

Live what you love and what you love will fill your life. — Jodi Livon

Those activities which are not based numbers, Which are based on humans(Customers and Employees) is known as business. Numbers will ultimately increase if humans are happy who are involved. — Rakesh Wadhwani

How does one get help when they have no money~ or how does one get money when they have no help? — Nina Montgomery

Entrepreneur, your last 20 tweets has to be about your brain, brand and business. — Onyi Anyado

Teams gather around change. — David Hieatt

Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper. — Rachael Bermingham

Achieving success is like hitting a moving target. Both require accuracy, the ability to counteract external factors and adjusting the sight when necessary. — Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

You can be a leader, a follower or out of business. — Terence Mauri

We've all seen it. A #startup begins with a #dream, a #passion to do something others have missed or overlooked. — 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

I am writing this book so the doers, the drivers, and the hard
workers out there will have a Step-By-Step ultra-practical
guide that will teach the specific action steps one must take to
start and grow a successful business. If you take action and do
everything this book tells you to do, you will make millions. If
you just intend on doing everything in this book you will make
a mediocre living or you will be poor and it will be your own
fault. — Clay Clark

God is still in the miracle working business. He's still the same God yesterday, today and forevermore. — Prophetess Dina Rolle

When you're confident in what you bring to the table, you don't have to chase and beg anyone to sit down and eat. — Stephan Labossiere

The business management is, in essence, the decision management and performance management continuum. — Pearl Zhu

Bad business does not revolve around missing crossroads. It revolves around roundabouts. — Kevin Focke

The ultimate profit from all of my businesses is to be happy and to make all of the customers happy. — Debasish Mridha

Best practices are particularly valuable to those who are unfamiliar with email's unique, often confusing rules. — Chad White

Each day that comes is not a privilege to think about wrong people and things in a negative way and disturb not just your mind, but your heart as well! Each day is however, a great privilege to be thankful to God and mind the business of your life; how to summon all challenges, limit your mistakes and improve your staying power, and how to move your footsteps to live noble and indelible footprints! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There are things to be obtained by law and things to be obtained by claw — Agona Apell

Treat distractions as the enemy. The internet is brilliant but it is one very efficient way of wasting your time. — David Hieatt

I delegate, therefore I am. — Michael McCafferty

Failure to commit is as bad as failure to start. — David Hieatt

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

If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of at
least a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies follow
your business approach, you are certainly an important manager with
leader characteristics. — Eraldo Banovac

You need to ask yourself " How much do you want" before you start your online business. — Satyendra Pandey

Being an entrepreneur is a mental job...
It takes patients! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet. — Dee Williams

Customer is a very important key factor that every establishment big or small MUST recognize in other to succeed. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

An entrepreneurial spirit makes you someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business enterprise, talent or calling to become an agent of change. — Archibald Marwizi

In the wink of an eye, all quaint days of the past, the present, and future will meld together into the bottomless unknown of perpetuity. Only trace evidence of our invertebrate existence will anoint future generations. In the crinkle of time, our houses will crumble apart. Companies that we worked for will go out of business or merge with other nameless conglomerates. What will survive us are our children and our words. — Kilroy J. Oldster

You think I don't know what I want? You think I love the idea of relying on my looks for life? No! It's pathetic! In my head, I have a nice, quiet, normal job that involves me running my own business. I carry a briefcase around my office with important documents, I have a nice assistant who calls me boss, and people ask me questions - they ask for my advice because I matter! I'm important to them! I'm recognized as something more than a pretty face and a pair of legs. I have a brain and interests and thoughts about religion, and poverty, and economics. I'm not a miserable girl with a number attached to her chest, stripping her clothes off in a room full of people. — Elisa Marie Hopkins

One of the main secrets of success is the ability to foresee the situation a few steps forward. — Sahara Sanders

In the end, it is your responsibility to read the small print, whether it is for gig contracts, record contracts, investors, management, booking agents, or anything else. You can blame everyone else for your mistakes, but when you make them, you end up being the one who has to pay. — Loren Weisman

So it comes down to scarcity, one product or service having qualities you won't find everywhere or ideally, anywhere. It's the job of every brand to seek that out as their standard, their stamp. — David Brier

Don't be a puppet of work; let work be your puppet. — Joey Lawsin

Self Reflection Is the Key To Success — Marieke Stoop

When we are able to see the choices we make through the eyes of self-acceptance, we are transformed. — Jodi Livon

Knowledge is more important than capital. Lack of capital is a common excuse for not starting a business venture. — Timi Nadela

Plain and simple, marketing is about nothing more than getting your product or service in front of likely buyers in a positively memorable way. Although there have been thousands of books written about marketing, that really is all that it's about. When starting a business or growing your existing business, you must come to grips with the fact that marketing is SUPER IMPORTANT. In fact without effective marketing and a steady stream of customers, nothing else about your business really matters. The fancy LLC you just setup doesn't matter. The super-detailed "Operating Agreement" doesn't matter. The S-Corp you formed doesn't matter and the new office space you just built out doesn't matter either. Poor marketing makes people poor. Great marketing makes people rich. — Clay Clark

Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score — Rasheed Ogunlaru

We're all somebody's prospect; we're all somebody's customer. — Chris Murray

Don't ever let the Man get you. — Sophia Amoruso

Success is not measured by who you are , only by the perception of what others think you are — Brian A. Leslie

Starting a business is easy, succeeding is a different story." Model Me VIP — Steven Cuoco

We have tools at our disposal to use or not to use ... it's a choice. — Lisa A. Mininni

Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings. — Laura Busche

Good decisions can turn into disasters when communicated poorly. — Dianna Booher

In every business your customers are the road. Your customers are the life blood of your business. Without your customers you have nowhere to go. In fact, without your life blood, you won't have a life. Without them you are dead. — Clay Clark

Marry your offline and online systems. So when you meet someone in person, make sure to connect with them online, too! — Lisa A. Mininni

The most important brands in the world make you feel something. They do that because they have something they want to change. And as customers, we want to be part of that change. These companies have a reason to exist over and above just to make a profit: They have a purpose. Yes, we admire the product they make. But the thing we love the most about them is the change they are making. — David Hieatt

People relate to people, and if your brand feels like people, they'll relate to you, too. — Laura Busche

We must always be mindful of who we are being while we are leading. — Lolly Daskal

If there is one thing I know, it is this, rich people are remarkably unremarkable. — Brian Tracy

Think of every contact a customer has with your brand as the most important encounter of your life. — Dane Brookes

I believe in solving social ills with business skills. — Richie Norton

A business that is not growing after all, is dying. — Shawn Casemore

My friend, only focus on things that you can control. If you have a fixable problem, fix it. If it is not fixable, move on to something that is. — Clay Clark

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. — Vern Dosch

Strive to enrich all lives, hearts and minds not just your own pockets — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Control in business is the combination of written and unwritten rules that create an organizational decision framework and staff hierarchy. — Holly Duckworth

At the end of the day, businesses should exist to provide profits for their team to share as a result of solving problems for their customers. — Clay Clark

Never mind your intentions. Communication is about what others hear with your words. — Dianna Booher

Investments in greater email marketing sophistication often lead to even higher returns, not diminishing returns. — Chad White

Part-time effort means part-tim results. — Tony Curl

Women, you have all this power, I'm telling you. In business, you have something called an inferred fiduciary duty to yourself. Look at the other hugely successful women in industry, commerce, science and everywhere else and you'll see women who are feminine, beautiful but also do not rely on men for their self-empowerment. — Gene Simmons

Grab every opportunity. You have maximum control only on 'now'! If this moment goes; if this opportunity is lost; you may not get another ever! — Abhishek Ratna

When "We've always done it that way" is replaced with "Let's try something new," associations will leap to greatness. — Holly Duckworth

Beauty, business, blogs, & bullshit...never a dull conversation with your friends you have tons in common with. — April Mae Monterrosa

Do one thing well. It's enough. — David Hieatt

Our customers are not our competitors. We compete for them, not with them. — T Jay Taylor

The hum of passing traffic, the ring of the register, the buzz of conversation, the excitement contained in the mixture of the mundane and magnificent. The fantasy worlds colliding with bleak reality. The transactions of the business of living.
From The Boulevard in the Kindle book Reflections in the Mirror of Life by The Prophet of Life — The Prophet Of Life

Self-imposed insanely impossible deadlines often help. — David Hieatt

Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice. — Michael J. Marx

Life is complicated. Sport is simple. — David Hieatt

When I stopped to take a breath, I noticed I had wings. — Jodi Livon

You will need to create a discipline where head and heart can both
be involved in the decisions that you make. Taking the emotion out of something you feel very passionate about is far from easy. But easy don't build great. — David Hieatt

A balanced scoreboard needs to provide the balanced view of business progress; perhaps it also has the "unbalanced" nature to do prioritization. — Pearl Zhu

People change, and so do their aspirations, and so should brands. — Laura Busche

Non-profit does not mean not for revenue. — Holly Duckworth

A brand is a story. And you have to tell it well. The good news in this connected world great stories travel fast. And, these days, they travel for free. So there has never been a better time or a cheaper time to start something. — David Hieatt

Your reciept is your library card.
On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores. — Michael P. Naughton

To be effective as future organizations, we must know our fellow leaders better, deeper. — Holly Duckworth

What would you choose if you knew you couldn't fail? — Simone Milasas

Fear, doubt, and lack are things we must talk about to emerge as associations that thrive for years to come. — Holly Duckworth

Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after having an experience with you becomes your trademark. — Jay Danzie

We can be competitive and aim to destroy our opponent or competition, but we can still respect our rivals and even be friends. — Ben Tolosa

Treat your entire audience with the same level of care. — Cendrine Marrouat

Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees. — Janet M. Tavakoli

I started this dirty quote business when I noticed that I only tend to read authors when their quotes convince me of wit and style. In a world overflowing with bad literature and corrupted product-placement critics the only weapon one has is either word of mouth or quotes, and me I highly prefer the latter. So I have just decided that I will only post to facebook through goodreads quotes. That's policy that makes a lot of sense for a writer. — Martijn Benders

Every action has an impact; choose wisely the impact you want to have. — Mindy Hall

Don't go on tours with people who have never been there. — Clay Clark

He is Your Customer, the Reason behind Your Customs. — Vineet Raj Kapoor