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There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.
— George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
I can’t control who follows me, but I can control who I follow.[Social Media]
— Germany Kent
Your Twitter Profile is your business card.
— Germany Kent
The typical industry approach is [retailers] to treat vendors like the enemy... If vendors can't make a profit then they don't have money to invest in research and development, which in turn means that the products they bring to the market will be less inspiring to customers, which in turn detriments the retailer's business because customers aren't inspired to buy. People want to cut costs and negotiate aggressively because there's a limited amount of profit to be shared by both sides. As a result of this "death spiral", most retailers fail.
— Tony Hsieh
It has been my experience that, even when a man has a sense of humor, it only really carries him to the point where he will join in a laugh at the expense of the other fellow.
— George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Given the reality of limited time and resources, best practices provide a valuable, low risk, default starting point.
— Chad White, Email Marketing Rules
Marketers and executives are very different from the average consumer, so your instincts may mislead you.
— Chad White, Email Marketing Rules
Best practices are particularly valuable to those who are unfamiliar with email’s unique, often confusing rules.
— Chad White, Email Marketing Rules
The on-brand execution of best practices tailored to your unique audience is what leads to the best execution.
— Chad White, Email Marketing Rules
Best practices are those practices that generally produce the best results or minimize risk.
— Chad White, Email Marketing Rules
Investments in greater email marketing sophistication often lead to even higher returns, not diminishing returns.
— Chad White, Email Marketing Rules
Poor practices are blunting email marketing’s effectiveness and keeping its ROI from being truly awesome.
— Chad White, Email Marketing Rules
Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]
— Germany Kent
The system you work in does not tell you who you get to be
—  you decide who you get to be.
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
I faced people from all walks of business who fully disregarded design (though they were completely influenced by it). I also met fine artists who drowned in their own work and the dense creative universe in their minds.Then I met designers. And instantly fell in love. Let me tell you why.Designers are familiar with critiques. They not only tolerate them but actively look out for them. They honestly believe in iterations and learn to edit down their work. They embrace simplicity and create beauty based on requirements other than their own. Design education teaches you to run away from assumptions and to have the stomach to scrap your work often.I’m bringing this up because it’s time to bridge the gap between design and business.
— Laura Busche, Lean Branding
In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Everyone is born with an instinct of success, and ability to make it, but only the ones who think out of the box succeed.
— Unarine Ramaru
No matter what the odds say, be even with who you truly are.
— Unarine Ramaru
Being a solution and not a problem proves progression.
— Unarine Ramaru
So, you don’t have money to invest in your brand? You do have money for damage control, right?Here’s the thing: anyone can make your brand inferior in your absence.
— Laura Busche, Lean Branding
The goal is to build a profitable business, not maintain an expensive hobby that will leave you in the poorhouse.
— Dawn Fotopulos, Accounting for the Numberphobic: A Survival Guide for Small Business Owners
But developing relationships with coworkers—your peers, superiors, and subordinates—is incredibly important, perhaps even the most important thing you’ll do at work, and this is completely dependent on your communication skills.
— Scribendi, Effective Business Communication
An organization with excellent internal communication will run smoothly, allowing its members to progress toward a mutual goal, which will ultimately affect the quality of external communication.
— Scribendi, Effective Business Communication
Every action has an impact
—  choose wisely the impact you want to have.
Whatever business you have, if you truly believe in what you’re doing, you’re capable of going any place and doing anything. Pursue Your Dreams!
— Rachel A. Olsen, Shark Tank MOMpreneurs Take A Bite Out of Publicity: How 5 Inventors Leveraged Media to Build their Business + How YOU Can, Too
As a Shark, I’ve been in the tank with these entrepreneurs and I can tell you Rachel gets right to the heart of how they succeeded,” said Barbara Corcoran in her endorsement of the book. “‘Shark Tank MOMpreneurs’ is a must read for anyone looking to learn the inside secrets of getting on ‘Shark Tank’ and landing a deal, or getting the publicity that’s essential for any successful business.
— Rachel A. Olsen, Shark Tank MOMpreneurs Take A Bite Out of Publicity: How 5 Inventors Leveraged Media to Build their Business + How YOU Can, Too
Research conquers doubt. It aligns everyone around the incontestable. Research is the key to clarity—in startups, enterprises, and life itself.
— Laura Busche, Lean Branding
These women, these Shark Tank Mompreneurs are so passionate about what they created and what they are doing, and that just shines through. That's a major reason why they nailed their audition.
— Rachel A. Olsen, Shark Tank MOMpreneurs Take A Bite Out of Publicity: How 5 Inventors Leveraged Media to Build their Business + How YOU Can, Too
Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings.
— Laura Busche, Lean Branding
People change, and so do their aspirations, and so should brands.
— Laura Busche, Lean Branding
Make sure you test your brand story’s recipe with whomever you’re cooking it for.
— Laura Busche, Lean Branding
Lean brands are the result of continually testing assumptions.
— Laura Busche, Lean Branding
Do everything in your power to make customers go confidently in the direction of their purchase intention.
— Laura Busche, Lean Branding
Brand and product don’t compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you.
— Laura Busche, Lean Branding
Products shouldn’t just work well, they must unfold well.
— Laura Busche, Lean Branding
People relate to people, and if your brand feels like people, they’ll relate to you, too.
— Laura Busche, Lean Branding
Positioning is finding the right parking space inside the consumer’s mind and going for it before someone else takes it.
— Laura Busche, Lean Branding
Your brand story’s “happily ever after” involves open wallets.
— Laura Busche, Lean Branding
All human aspirations are opportunities for brands to build relationships.
— Laura Busche, Lean Branding
Shape your mindsets or your mindsets will shape you.
— Mindy   Hall, Leading with Intention: Every Moment Is a Choice
The number one way culture is shaped is by what leaders model.
— Mindy   Hall, Leading with Intention: Every Moment Is a Choice
There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.
— Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
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
Dance with the one that brought you
— Hannah Hart
The problem with your company is not the economy, it is not the lack of opportunity, it is not your team. The problem is you. That is the bad news. The good news is, if you're the problem, you're also the solution. You're the one person you can change the easiest. You can decide to grow. Grow your abilities, your character, your education, and your capacity. You can decide who you want to be and get about the business of becoming that person.
— Dave Ramsey, EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches
No company has a culture, every company is a culture
— Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
You may create a inspirational & visually resplendent strategy map but without accountability its value is specious
— Paul R. Niven, Balanced Scorecard Step-By-Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results
The problem with capitalism is that "we have a global theology without morality, without a Bible." And that's dangerous, he warns - "we're not going to be able to exist in a global context if we are the bastards of our business.
— Joel Bakan, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
Competition is simply an unestablished paternship.
— Tyler Wagner
Your dreams can earn you money and provision when you don’t only have fans, but customers.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
It is much more rewarding to get to the top of the mountain and share your experience with others than to show up by yourself, exausted.
— -Shandel Slaten
China is a political beast, with the Party at its heart, and the importance of political and regulatory due diligence cannot be overstated.
— Jeremy  Gordon, Risky Business In China. A Guide To Due Diligence
A very focused Chinese government, with firm, long-term social and economic goals, and an increasingly assertive international voice, is feeling more pressure from the Chinese dreamers, and is putting more pressure on foreign business interests. The foreign multinationals have their purposes, but also feed resentment that so much of China’s hard work results in easy profits for foreign brands and foreign shareholders. This new reality requires foreign firms to pay much more attention to the social context, and to ensure that they can manage the increased political and regulatory risk. From "Risky Business in China" (Palgrave, September 2014)
— Jeremy Gordon
Your manager wants to believe that you enjoy your job, or at least you won't spit in her coffee when she looks away. At the office, attitude counts for a lot.
— Terri Tierney Clark, Learn, Work, Lead- Things Your Mentor Won't Tell You
The atmosphere you create influence the reception the other person will give you.
— Unarine Ramaru
The simple fact is that neither an efficiently successful HOW nor a compelling persuasive WHY is sufficient on its own..without the other to bring about impactful sustainable improvement.
— Robert M. Olsen
Friends don't let friends become BossHoles! Or work for one either.
— Greg L. Alston
Take your dreams off the ground to the clouds of business where your products will contribute to make the world a better place.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
If you are not good at innovating, be smart in investing.
— Rifhi Siddiq
Leadership is a skill learned through many venues.
— Todd Stocker, Leading from the Gut: 3 Power Principles of Effective Leaders
Everything and everyone represents at least one brand. Therefore, to brand or not to brand is not even a question.
— Laura Busche, Lean Branding
In today’s saturated marketplace, you’ll go nowhere selling a “bunch of features.” We are in the business of disrupting the market with brands that matter.
— Laura Busche, Lean Branding
What is the “Once upon a time” of your brand story? Ask yourself this: “How does what I’m building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow?
— Laura Busche, Lean Branding
Like life, revenge can be a messy business... And both would be much simpler if only our heads could figure out which way our hearts will go. But the heart has its reasons, of which reason cannot know.
— Emily Thorne
Be Shameless. Experiment. This is the only way to identify your true passion.
— Vishwas Mudagal, Losing My Religion
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
— Alan Kay
The best lesson from the myths of Newton and Archimedes is to work passionately but to take breaks. Sitting under trees and relaxing in baths lets the mind wander and frees the subconscious to do work on our behalf. Freeman Dyson, a world-class physi- cist and author, agrees: “I think it’s very important to be idle...people who keep themselves busy all the time are generally not creative. So I am not ashamed of being idle.
— Scott Berkun, The Myths of Innovation
Capitalize on charm by continually captivating your customer.
— Ryan Lilly
Entrepreneurs are different beasts. Beasts who don’t give a damn, who kick ass when required, who stand up to a challenge, and who rise time and again with utter disregard to fear or failure. These are the beasts who run the world.
— Vishwas Mudagal, Losing My Religion
These days he was like a zombie, all grim business, just another jerk with an erection.
— Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
You can run a business any way you like, but you'll run it better if you build it around your strengths.
— Duncan Bannatyne, Anyone Can Do It
I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.
— Scott A. Sandage, Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.
— Ryan Lilly
If all the businesses in town are run like country businesses, You are going to have a country town
— William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
The potential of controlling and living a successful life according to your terms depends on how you think. Your perception is your world. You can create the life you want and in fact, you can even shape the way you want it.
— Dee Dee Artner
It is impossible to think big without thinking complex.
— Duncan Bannatyne, Anyone Can Do It
Some people will hate you for pursuing what you love. Make sure you don't love them more.
— Harsh Snehanshu, Because Shit Happened
Dreams are less influential than actions and actions are less influential than results.
— Bobby Darnell
Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission.
— Ryan Lilly
TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR,  BE A DOER FIRST.IT TAKES “YOU” TO BE THAT!
— PRIYANSHU JOSHI
Business Plans: It's about the Process, Not the Product
— Delvin R. Chatterson, The Complete Do-It-Yourself Guide to Business Plans: It's about the Process, Not the Product New, Revised and Expanded, Second Edition
Let’s form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we’ll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.
— Ryan Lilly
Great partnerships should benefit us all
— Marcel Fuursted
Delivering a project isn’t difficult. What’s difficult is delivering a project without first taking the time to plan properly
— James Leal
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, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
If you KNOW that you’re FUCKED Then you’re NOT If you think that you’re NOT THEN YOU ARE!Isn’t that lovely? Iambic pentangle?
— Martin Atkins, Welcome to the Music Business: You're F**ked!
Innovation and disruption are ideas that originated in the arena of business but which have since been applied to arenas whose values and goals are remote from the values and goals of business. People aren’t disk drives. Public schools, colleges and universities, churches, museums, and many hospitals, all of which have been subjected to disruptive innovation, have revenues and expenses and infrastructures, but they aren’t industries in the same way that manufacturers of hard-disk drives or truck engines or drygoods are industries. Journalism isn’t an industry in that sense, either.Doctors have obligations to their patients, teachers to their students, pastors to their congregations, curators to the public, and journalists to their readers--obligations that lie outside the realm of earnings, and are fundamentally different from the obligations that a business executive has to employees, partners, and investors. Historically, institutions like museums, hospitals, schools, and universities have been supported by patronage, donations made by individuals or funding from church or state. The press has generally supported itself by charging subscribers and selling advertising. (Underwriting by corporations and foundations is a funding source of more recent vintage.) Charging for admission, membership, subscriptions and, for some, earning profits are similarities these institutions have with businesses. Still, that doesn’t make them industries, which turn things into commodities and sell them for gain.
— Jill Lepore
People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.
— Harold Robbins, Never Leave Me
Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
— Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
A bad attitude from a chronic complaining employee is like a cancer
—  it will only spread and infect others. This can take your business down in a nanosecond. You must cut out the cancer and invite them to seek employment elsewhere. Quickly.
The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don’t ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it.
— Ryan Lilly, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
Time, energy and money. These should never be compromised.
— Dee Dee Artner
Stop Blaming. Take responsibility for your thoughts and your actions.
— Dee Dee Artner
Never make a sales pitch as the way you introduce yourself. What you CAN say is how you help people and businesses.
— Beth Ramsay, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Not everyone understand everything.
— Dee Dee Artner
It is the leader’s job to lead by example and enforce the values and the behaviors to set the culture for any company or work group. Show me a company in rapid decline, and I will show you someone in charge who doesn’t give a _____.
— Beth Ramsay, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
what you don't know will cost you.
— Dee Dee Artner
Quality is not for compromise.
— Dee Dee Artner
When you run a business, your business is totally different from others. This means your lifestyle, your routine and what you make out of your business is totally different. You lead a different life compared to those in your neighborhood and the people you knew around your business circle.
— Dee Dee Artner
The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between male and female, between the race and the individual, between unworhtiness and worth, between the earthly and the higher life, between negation and God-like. Mankind has the choice to make. There are only two poles, and there is no middle way.
— Otto Weininger, Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles
My business is to forgive others.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
In Business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.
— Anonymous
Busyness does not make you money, business do. Are you running a busyness or a business?
— Saji Ijiyemi
A personal brand, once local and temporal, is now global and forever. That’s the blessing and the curse of the internet with regards to your reputation.
— Ryan Lilly, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else.
— Robert G.  Thompson, Hooked on Customers: The Five Habits of Legendary Customer-Centric Companies
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, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
You begins with 'Y'-so ask, observe, and listen.
— Ken Poirot, Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement
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, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Studies consistently show that happy companies are way more productive, creative and service-oriented than unhappy ones. Therefore, the happy companies will beat the pants off the unhappy ones in the market place. The future of business is happy! It’s inevitable.
— Alexander Kjerulf, Happy Hour is 9 to 5
The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'Well done'.
— John Ashcroft
Happiness at work is not about eliminating all the bad stuff from your job. It’s about being happy at work even though some of these bad things are present. It’s about building your skills and your energy to fix the problems, and to create more and more positive experiences at work.
— Alexander Kjerulf, Happy Hour is 9 to 5
Conflict is just another chance for agreement.
— Ken Poirot, Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement
Do extremely difficult work.That seems obvious, right? If you do something that's valued but scarce because it's difficult, you're more likely to be in demand and to be compensated fairly for what you do.The implication is stunning, though: When designing a project or developing a skill, seek out the most difficult parts to master and contribute. If it's easy, it's not for you.
— Seth Godin
The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of Big Business; and Big Business, directly or indirectly, is the immediate cause of War.
— Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears
She’s such a bitch,” Tina says, which I find a little contradictory, but overall quite true. “She’s got to be in charge of everything.”I sit next to her. “Well, I guess. But in business, that’s leadership.”Tina stares at me for a second. “I can’t believe you consider that a positive trait. How about her inability to accept other points of view? Is it good leadership to be narrow, too?”“Focus,” I say. “They call that focus.”Tina stares at me. “Her paranoia?”“Business savvy.”“Compulsive need to have everything just how she wants it?”“Organizational skills.”“Aggressiveness?”“Aggressiveness,” I say, “is already a good thing.”“Jesus Christ,” Tina says, her eyebrow ring glinting in the morning sun. “Sometimes I worry about this country.
— Max Barry, Syrup
The path to happiness at work starts with a simple decision: You must want to be happy. If you don’t commit to being happy at work, you won’t be. You won’t make the choices that make you happy. You won’t take the actions needed to get there. You won’t change the things that need to change.
— Alexander Kjerulf, Happy Hour is 9 to 5
See, happiness at work is an emotion. It comes from inside of you, and like all other emotions it is difficult to define, but inescapable once it’s present. Or not present. Can you define love? Poets have tried for thousands of years and aren’t getting much closer. But when you’re feeling love, you’re acutely aware of it, even though you have no formal definition.
— Alexander Kjerulf, Happy Hour is 9 to 5
Netiquette makes being a 'goody goody' online cool for everyone because we all have to get along. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles
Bad business should be done without guilt if it is a source of income.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Seriously: Do you want to spend your working life simply being satisfied? When you look back on 50 years spent in business, do you want to be able to say, “Well, I was satisfied"?? No! Make happiness your goal. As in, “Let’s make this a workplace where people are happy to work." As in, “I’ve been working for 50 years now, and it absolutely rocks! To me work is challenging, stimulating and just plain fun. 
— Alexander Kjerulf, Happy Hour is 9 to 5
Maybe you are in the Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy looking for a way out, looking for the next rung in the ladder on your climb to the Peak of Happiness, or you may even be at the Peak of Happiness already, looking for a way to stay there. Wherever you are in life, this book is designed to give you the tools necessary to help you achieve your goals.
— Ken Poirot, Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement
Focus your business on what you do best. Let everyone else worry about the rest.
— Kevin Stirtz, Marketing For Smart People
Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through ones contribution.
— Capies Pitts
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, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
A church leadership that cannot provide members with business ideas should stop demanding tithe from them. Plant greatness in the members and they pay greatly
—  Plant zero in them and they pay in negatives!
Consistency matters. You must learn that giving people a consistent high-quality product is of importance, like building trust across your brand. This build relational wealth - people want to know what they are about to step into and with whom.
— Nicole Dominique Le Maire
You don't need a million dollar to start a business. You just need a simple idea to make Billions
— Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
You can’t be happy at work every day. No matter how much you love your job, there are still going to be bad days. And that’s cool—it’s always OK to have a bad day at work.
— Alexander Kjerulf, Happy Hour is 9 to 5
Life is not about receiving. It's about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience.
— Peter E
If some musicians put half as much effort in to the business side as they do their outer look and appearances, they could be twice as far.
— Loren Weisman
Most companies that win don't have a unique strategy; quite the opposite, they are doing what everyone else is doing but have figured out how to execute better.
— Robert G.  Thompson, Hooked on Customers: The Five Habits of Legendary Customer-Centric Companies
The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.
— Robert G.  Thompson, Hooked on Customers: The Five Habits of Legendary Customer-Centric Companies
If you give customers a chance, they’ll communicate with you in many ways.
— Robert G.  Thompson, Hooked on Customers: The Five Habits of Legendary Customer-Centric Companies
Strive for balance in your life. You are the heart and soul of your business so take care of yourself.
— Joey A. Concepcion, GO NEGOSYO: Joey Concepcion's 55 Inspiring Stories of Women Entrepreneurs
Just finished [Capitalist in North Korea]—fascinating! What an experience. Wow." —Justin Rohrlich, Emmy Award Winner, Head Writer, Minyanville's World In Review
— Felix Abt
Customers are speaking to you implicitly via their behavior, captured in the footprints they leave behind in your systems.
— Robert G.  Thompson, Hooked on Customers: The Five Habits of Legendary Customer-Centric Companies
Realize that employees and the customers both have to be engaged, at the same time, to move your business forward for sustainable success.
— Robert G.  Thompson, Hooked on Customers: The Five Habits of Legendary Customer-Centric Companies
The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.
— Masaru Ibuka
A decision is only as strong as the belief standing behind it
— Isaiah Hankel, Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives
Research on the human brain has shown it is predisposed to think in the terms of a story.36 This predisposition is continuously reinforced and strengthened throughout the life of your brain. Imaging studies have shown only a small, quarter-sized region of your brain lights up when someone tells you a series of facts. However, when someone tells you a story laced with those facts, or those facts in action, your entire brain lights up. Not only can you program your mind with a story — you can program someone else’s mind.
— Isaiah Hankel, Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives
It’s not about the content we are creating but how much content our customers are creating for us.
— Roger James Hamilton
Life is all about exploring yourself, discovering yourself and grooming yourself, then you will surely stop negative thinking.
— Ehabib
Unlearn your knowledge about what WAS working to understand what is working NOW
— Roger James Hamilton
Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory on one theme. But if you want to do original work you must start young, and young people are limited by the chair system. Even if students cannot become assistant professors at an early age they should be encouraged to do original work....Industry is more likely to put its research effort into its daily business. It is very difficult for it to become involved in pure chemistry. There is a need to encourage long-range research, even if we don't know its goal and if its application is unknown.
— Kenichi Fukui
The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
The U.S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves paid for nanoseconds; the have-nots had no idea that nanoseconds had value. The haves enjoyed a perfect view of the market; the have-nots never saw the market at all.
— Michael   Lewis, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Its easier to start a global business than a local one, make your business one where you can work from anywhere in the world
— Roger James Hamilton
In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus
— Isaiah Hankel
Don't deal bitterly with the enemy you see. Deal with the greater enemy that sent your enemy to you. If you focus on dealing with the "retailer", remember that the "producer" can employ more "retailers" and what that means is that your life business will redefine you as "dealer of enemies". Satan is behind the plot!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
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.
— Solamon Energy
Competition in business is a blessing, for without it, we wouldn't be motivated to improve.
— Nabil N. Jamal
It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.
— Mark Cuban
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, White Teeth
Real estate is the best investment on earth, however, when the music stops playing, which happens occasionally, don't be the one left without a chair.
— Steven Ivy - Attorney Entrepreneur
Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared.
— Andrew Harvey
A good entrepreneur is a good teacher.
— Edward D. Hess
Don't make up problems you don't have yet. It's not a problem until it's a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway.The decisions you make today don't need to last forever. If circumstances change, your decisions CAN change. Decisions are temporary.Pay attention to today and worry about later when it gets here. Otherwise, you'll waste energy, time and money fixating on problems that may never materialize."~ An excerpt from the awesome book, "Rework
— Jason Fried
Every day is a training day and every event is a training event.
— James Pritchert
Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.
— Orrin Woodward
If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.
— Michael Dell
A title from the1966 movie"The Russians Are Coming,The Russians Are Coming," gives a new meaning toa phrase: "wait a minute, we've seen this movie before
— Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur
It's not what you do, but what you appear to do.
— James Pritchert
The minute you stop caring about your business, is the same minute your business stops caring about you.
— Steven Ivy - Attorney Entrepreneur
business is a part of my life,business is my stairway to heaven, I will be the successful businessman
— Faiz Triumph
No Matter What, When, Where or Who … He is Forever My Daddy ~ MJ
— Michael S. Joyner, Forever My Daddy Denied
I started the business with a simple question: How can we make the process of buying a computer better? The answer was: Sell computers directly to the end customer. Eliminate the reseller's markup and pass those savings on to the customer.
— Michael Dell, Direct from Dell
Sometimes it's better not to ask-or to listen-when tell you something can't be done. I didn't ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it.
— Michael Dell, Direct from Dell
Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.
— Alain de Botton
Building a business is like creating a picture & striving to be picture perfect in everything you do.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
How you gather, manage and use intel in life determines whether you win or lose. That's the # 1 rule for the mavericks in business.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
As soon as we open our eyes in the morning, what we want most is to matter, to live a life and to do a work that has meaning. We have evolved to feel this way. Man's first thought was 'I AM'.
— Bernadette Jiwa, Difference: The one-page method for reimagining your business and reinventing your marketing
Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power argues that if corporations have 'person hood' under the law, then it makes sense to question what kind of people they are. He posits that corporations behave with all the classical signs of sociopathy: they are inherently amoral, they elevate their own interests above all others', and they disregard moral and sometimes legal limits on their behavior in pursuit of their own advancement. Organizations of this type would thrive under the leadership of people who have the same traits: sociopaths.
— M.E. Thomas, Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
Policy makers and business leaders take note: money matters. But often the best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table—so that people can focus on the work rather than on the cash.
— Daniel H. Pink, The Flip Manifesto
Everyone isn't going to embrace your value, but that doesn't mean you need to go and change your price.
— Stephan Labossiere
Do what you love but do what it takes to do what you love.
— Todd Stocker, Refined: Turning Pain Into Purpose
World can run without money and currencies but not without business and trade.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea.
— David Belasco
If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of selling us hope (i.e., public speakers, presidents, priests, etc.) wouldn't wear suits.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The key to unlock your entrepreneurial spirit is your imagination.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
One of the greatest skills—and gifts—is to focus on a person. Make them feel as though they’re the only person in the world.
— Rhonda Rhyne, Keys to the Corner Office: Success Strategies for Women by Women
It’s through diverse opinions and perspectives that a dynamic organisation can drive innovation and create its competitive advantage.
— Craig Dent
Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn’t choose you because of your family name or existing wealth.
— Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival.
— Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
I have been like a mediocre concert pianist playing in front of a tone-deaf family, who applaud out of duty rather than for accomplishment.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Most of the people are nice to live with, but not to do business with!
— Amit Kalantri
Knowledge makes us stronger, but power is not supersede by it (knowledge). Vulnerable is power without knowledge. Impracticable is knowledge without power
— VIRGIL PROFEANU
Reveal you soul only to God. Don’t judge other by their acts, good or bad; still learn from what you see.
— VIRGIL PROFEANU
A master's (an artist's) Modus Vivendi is to guide his creative self on the path of generating ideas, in a synergistic work resonating with the client's needs and Universe inspiration.
— VIRGIL PROFEANU
Not knowing what you have means not having it (at all). Not knowing where you have what you have means not having it (at all). Not knowing that you don’t own what you don’t have means never getting it. Having, not having – human (being) you are.
— VIRGIL PROFEANU
Knowledge makes us stronger, but power is not supersede by it (knowledge). Vulnerable is power without knowledge. Impracticable is knowledge without power.
— VIRGIL PROFEANU
I now know that success can not choose me. It is waiting on a path that I must walk. In truth, it waits there for everyone. Many do not know where the path begins. Some search for a shortcut to the end. But the majority of the world does not even realise there is a path there at all.
— Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
I have always believed that atrademark is the life of an enterpriseand that it must be protected boldly. Atrademark and a company name arenot just clever gimmicks-they carryresponsibility and guarantee thequality of the product. If someone triesto get a free ride on the reputation andthe ability of another who has workedto build up public trust, it is nothingshort of thievery. We were not flatteredby this theft of our name.
— Akio Morita
The strategist is a chess player thrown into life.
— VIRGIL PROFEANU
True will is wishing backed by power.
— VIRGIL PROFEANU
Time is the sole resource you gain if spent and waste if not.
— VIRGIL PROFEANU
Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price.
— Amit Kalantri
Research has found that in most companies managers who get promoted rapidly spend most of their time networking and politicking, while their more effective colleagues spent their time building their units and developing their people.
— Alan G. Robinson, The Idea-Driven Organization: Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas
No longer will I measure myself against competitors, who don’t even know that a race is being run. From now on, I will measure myself against the man in front of me. I will measure myself against a new personal best, achieving my next ambitious goal.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
I don't beg for those things which can be earned.
— Amit Kalantri
They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because they couldn't copy my professionalism.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
I don't waste food, water, money, time and talent.
— Amit Kalantri
No kind of social system can make you more happier and secure than your own money.
— Amit Kalantri
The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
— Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Remember, before they promoted to the chair of CEO, they were the best employees of their companies.
— Amit Kalantri
Targets are achieved sooner out of need, than out of greed.
— Amit Kalantri
If everything came easy in business everyone would have a business and be millionaires. It takes hard work, consistent effort and courage to keeping fighting the monster of failure.
— Delaine Robins
Somewhere along the line, Made in China began to sound like a bargain. (...) When an importer told a retail buyer that an item was quoted at 65¢ and made in the USA, the buyer figured it could be purchased somewhere cheaper. When the same product was quoted at 65¢ and was said to have been made in China the buyer figured it could not be found for any less.
— Paul Midler, Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game
Whatever begun with planning, ends in a victory.
— Amit Kalantri
This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.
— Amit Kalantri
Affordable Care Act" roll out isn't Obama's fault. It's what happens when you elect a President without any real-world business experience.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
In the professional world of leadership ambition and potential are the most excessive commodities.
— Noel DeJesus, 44 Days of Leadership
When you empower your people, your business will be grow.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Redundancy is my favourite business strategy.
— Amit Kalantri
The world is a marketplace. We all are in business and what we areselling is our unique selves.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
There is no blueprint to leadership, quite the conundrum in a business world where standardization is celebrated.
— Noel DeJesus, 44 Days of Leadership
If you think rightly, every problem is financial problem or eventually becomes one.
— Amit Kalantri
Eat, sleep & Breathe your business to ensure it's success
— Paul Cookson
I charge my clients for my time and expertise, my heart is free.
— Saurabh Gupta
Those activities which are not concerned with numbers, but which are concerned with humans(Customers and Employees) is known as business. Numbers will ultimately increase if humans are happy who are involved in.
— Rakesh Wadhwani
When you empower your people, your business will grow.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Life is a Business, by Worship of Human being, we Earn good Deeds'' -Samar Sudha
— Samar Sudha
Successful companies are built by investing large amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat.
— Amit Kalantri
Make your money on the buy, not the sell; this is true in any investment whether it's real estate, business, or the stock market.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Successful companies are built by investing lare amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat.
— Amit Kalantri
The world of romance and business works on this principle - You may be rejected several times, but not everyone will reject you.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, "surprise" is the optimistic solution.
— Amit Kalantri
Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.
— Elbert Hubbard
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
— Elbert Hubbard
Few teams sometimes fails miserably because team members wish to work in the team but they want to be recognized individualy.
— Amit Kalantri
Success is a place in time, Don't be late
— Julian Pencilliah, The Jetstream of Success
A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind.
— Angelica Hopes
An entrepreneur is someone who can make enough money to pay for their mistakes.
— Jayson Gaignard
In the business always talk to decision makers only, it will save your time and will get you the deal.
— Amit Kalantri
Treat your clients with high professionalism and they will no more negotiate with you.
— Amit Kalantri
You need a team for war, not for negotiation.
— Amit Kalantri
It is honor that makes commerce possible, dear brother. And the law courts, when men lack it.
— Edward Cline
...it's a good idea to remember that whenever there is a buy and a seller, somebody is wrong. Make sure it's not you
— Kenneth L. Fisher, The Wall Street Waltz: 90 Visual Perspectives : Illustrated Lessons from Financial Cycles and Trends
Through your influence, vision, ethics and authenticity you create a better reality for your family, community and organisation, where those around you and those who follow you are inspired to dream, learn and act
— Craig  Dent
There is no problem you can't take absolute advantage of.
— Ehab Atalla, The Secrets of Business
I'd rather do more with the same, then the same with less.
— Justin Greene, Identifying and Realizing Operational Efficiencies In Non-Profit Organizations
The real rich people doesn't have bank accounts, they have treasures.
— Amit Kalantri
Innovation Games let customers engage other centers of their brain, resulting in richer, deeper, and more meaningful exchanges of information
— Luke Hohmann, Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play: Creating Breakthrough Products and Services
Starting and profitably running a business is not just some achievement, it is heroism.
— Amit Kalantri
If you take care off your employees, they will take care of your business
— "Beta" Metani' Marashi
If you don’t have regular and accurate financial statements, you’re driving your business 100 miles an hour down a one-way street the wrong way, at night, in the fog, without lights.
— Jim Blasingame, The Age of the Customer: Prepare for the Moment of Relevance
We need leaders, we need political leaders and we need business leaders, and my hope for this book is that it helps create that next generation of business leaders that will lead us into the future.
— James White Fellow of INSTAAR
Even if your company’s financial condition can withstand the inefficiency of quality service, your brand likely won’t.
— Jim Blasingame, The Age of the Customer: Prepare for the Moment of Relevance
1. Stop blaming China We taught them how to do what they are doing2. Take responsibility – purchase consciously, purchase less, don’t go for lowest possible price3. Follow good business ethics, it’s a two way street4. Create global partnerships in a global village, create a true Win-Win situation with your supplier, consider the supplier a partner (what a concept!)5. End the Price Pressure: Boycott Walmart & Club-buying stores, not China. Stop buying what you don’t need!
— Tom Galey