c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
We've all seen it. A #startup begins with a #dream, a #passion to do something others have missed or overlooked.
— David Brier, The Lucky Brand
Running a business is a serious thing.
— Auliq Ice
Running a business well means knowing when it's time to make profit.
— Auliq Ice
Consumers today have become a cynical mob of buyers who believe the reviews and ratings of complete strangers much more readily than your brand's promises and distinctions.
— David Brier
When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you’re not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn’t be kept in the dark and fed a pile of...well, you get the idea.
— David Brier
Why do some brands grow explosively when others (that could be thriving) die a lonely and forgettable death?
— David Brier
A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it’s irrelevant. But to the right audience, it’s a passion.
— David Brier
Who are we, and how do we relate this idea in a way that’s meaningful to our customers and the values they hold dear?In other words, one must define something meaningful. To do that, one must identify to whom this must be meaningful.
— David Brier
The biggest mistake brands make are trying to “sell their stuff” rather than clarifying what people are actually buying.
— David Brier
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.
— David Brier
There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales 300% in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests 500% in 12 months.
— David Brier, The Lucky Brand
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, The Lucky Brand
Having a me-too brand is a death sentence.
— David Brier, The Lucky Brand
Cookie cutters are for baking, not branding.
— David Brier, The Lucky Brand
And while a brand is so much more than a company’s logo, the logo is one of the key ambassadors to any brand.
— David Brier
Every crossroad in life has four options – quit, adapt, proceed, or accept, but quitting is a dead-end.
— Sharon Nir, The Opposite of Comfortable
Instead of selling to your customers, help them buy.
— Mahyar Mottahed
God wants you to begin to strategise, plan, draw out tactics, methodologies of how your business would take over that particular sphere of business where you are
— Sunday Adelaja
Branding is the art of differentiation
— David Brier
Smile, ask, listen, provide, thank" then "take time out to have fun & renew yourself" but "always dream up more questions". - Julia Woodman
— Jay Woodman
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
— James Rouse
All selling should spring from service
— Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business
A good manager instills staff with self-confidence, teaches them to believe in themselves and helps them to realise their brilliance. Do not ever treat your staff with disrespect. It is competent until proven incompetent; not incompetent til proven competent.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
The web is an opportunity for those who understand that the web is a threat.
— Massimo Moruzzi, 15 Questions About Online Advertising
I would give up, but that will teach my kids that it's okay to be a failure and I refuse to ruin their lives like that!
— Mignon' Talise Padilla
The truth is that as you are building your small business, still that small business needs to experience some form of increase and growth
— Sunday Adelaja
Interest in such organizations is too often linked to the fringe and marginal or thought to be little more than conspiracy theories. While such a critique is not entirely incorrect, we will see that hidden organizations are far more common, more important, and more consequential than we have typically allowed ourselves to admit. As a result, they also need to be better integrated into thinking about organizations by scholars, policymakers, and everyday citizens.
— Craig Scott, Anonymous Agencies, Backstreet Businesses, and Covert Collectives: Rethinking Organizations in the 21st Century
Contagiousness is an unexpected property of all kinds of things.
— Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Business is like a game and you play the game only in two ways. Either you play to Win or Play not to Lose
— Qasid Parkar
God is looking for sons to send to the world of business to manage it for him.
— Sunday Adelaja
Pastor Face Your Business” When people say this they mean that I must just stay behind the pulpit and preach
— Sunday Adelaja
When he is dissected after his death," a disrespectful interpreter said of a foreign dignitary, "a million predicates will be found in his stomach: those he swallowed in the past decades without saying them.
— Kató Lomb
The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Life is made up of dots
— David Brier, The Lucky Brand
You have to work on the business first before it works for you.
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
Disrupting yourself is critical to avoiding stagnation, being overtaken by low-end entrants (i.e., younger, smarter, faster workers), and fast-tracking your personal and career growth.
— Whitney Johnson, Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work
The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
There are no keys to success - only tools.
— Criss Jami, Healology
For organisations to become truly sustainable we believe it is essential to create a new organisation model: a more cooperative leader, a new way for people to cooperate inside the organisation and a new way for organisations to be measured by society.
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao, The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society: Think about sustainability in an age of technological progress and rising inequality
I used to believe that culture was “soft,” and had little bearing on our bottom line. What I believe today is that our culture has everything to do with our bottom line, now and into the future.
— Vern Dosch, Wired Differently
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, Wired Differently
Sales is a constant state of information gathering and analysis. There are numerous factors that will affect your sale – from market position, to manufacturing capacity, to a seemingly harmless tidbit of information received over lunch. The more quality information you have, the better your analysis, and the better your sales results will be.
— Timo Aijo
You don't know if the water is hot or cold until you stick your toe in.
— Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant
We must practice consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate and even courteous communication every single day to successfully sustain, develop and grow our business.
— Kip Tindell
Avoiding Chargebacks"Depending on the type of business, the frequency of charge backs will be higher for some businesses and more difficult to defend. Learning15 the proper way to handle a customer chargeback will help the owner and reduce the frequency. Having to pay charge backs can be very costly to the business owner resulting in losses. It could also be very discouraging to a new business owner knowing that he has to pay a penalty, as well as refund services rendered.It would be a good idea to be aware of the things about which your customers complain frequently and make it a goal to correct, improve, or remove it. It would be very unfortunate to learn of a damaging remark about your operation made on the Internet, rather than face- to- face.Make it a point to inquire of your customer whether he was dissatisfied. Make conversation with your customer and if the customer has a complaint, make every effort to resolve it as soon as possible. Charge backs could get very costly and sometimes settling the dispute with the customer could save you money. However, there will be times when the refund should not be given or attempts to settle this on the spot should not be made. The business owner will have to use his own judgment.Jesus counsels us to “Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Luke 6:27, (KJV).” No doubt some business owners will have difficulty doing this when the occasion arises, and some may have learned that this is the way to go. But, I encourage you to try this. As you do more and more business, you will find this to be a very necessary way for you to resolve conflicts in your business. It will be easier to do this than to resist, as Jesus said in Matthew 5:25 (KJV), “Agree with thine adversary quickly whilst thou art in the way with him.; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.” Being cast into prison may be an extreme outcome, but we can avoid further conflicts if we would just humble ourselves and strive to resolve our conflicts. If it is any consolation, there are rewards for acting with love. Luke 6:35 says, “But love thee your enemies and do good and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.” As one can see, business owners have a higher degree of responsibility because of the number of people with whom he/she interacts.
— Gail Cavanaugh, Retailers Guide to Merchant Services
At a career peak, there is certainly the specter of competition from below, but just as importantly, there’s the risk that if we aren’t on a curve that satisfies us emotionally, we may be the cause of our own undoing.
— Whitney Johnson, Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work
A consultant: someone brought in to build a one-handled wheelbarrow.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
We would pay the bills. We would pretend to be high-class. This was compromise. This, I guessed, was business.
— Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals
Business is win-win, everything else shades into crime.
— Stefan Emunds
The biggest challenge in business isn’t your competition, it's what goes on inside your own head.
— Barbara Corcoran
Jesus Christ is the Master of the business we are doing. We are not the master
— Sunday Adelaja
The foundational stone for any business, enterprise or project has to be wisdom.
— Sunday Adelaja
Find three hobbies you love: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and one to be creative.
— Anonymous
A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to get to twenty. The beauty of numbers. When it drops to ten again he waits for it to get back to eighteen. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten. Well, it gets back there. But he has wasted a quarter of his life. And all he's got out of his money is a little mathematical excitement.
— V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River
Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
Most of the things that stop us aren’t things that we can’t do, but things we refuse to learn.
— James Woosley, Conquer the Entrepreneur's Kryptonite: Simple Strategic Planning for You and Your Business
I tell him his business, all business, is legalized throat-cutting, like marriage is legalized fornication.
— Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
He or she who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.
— Richard Lathrop
The Highest Reward for men and women 's devotion and dedication to excellence is not what one gets from it but what one he or she becomes through it.
— Bill Britt
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, Leaders' Watchwords
How you think matters. How you act matters more.
— James Woosley, Conquer the Entrepreneur's Kryptonite: Simple Strategic Planning for You and Your Business
Don't build a team that will fuel your 'ego'. Build a team that has the skills, desire & passion for fueling the 'vision'.
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
Entrepreneur, noun: someone who takes calculated risks to add value to wider society with the hope of making money and building wealth
— M. James Airey
Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.
— Brandi L. Bates
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, Daily Drive 365
You would be surprised at how many corporations "none of your business" applies to!
— Steven Magee
You can either learn to live with your Kryptonite or you can conquer it. Do what others don’t and you will have a distinct strategic advantage.
— James Woosley, Conquer the Entrepreneur's Kryptonite: Simple Strategic Planning for You and Your Business
Hookers, Hondas and Hollywood all approach customers with a different mindset than the rest of the business world. Whereas most businesses talk about the importance of "customer service," agents, mechanics and people of the night talk about "servicing customers."It is an important distinction, as customer service is generally a reactive process in which professionals and businesses respond to the needs of their clients, while servicing customers involves exploration to discover what the customer needs in order to start firing all the cylinders.
— Ari Gold, The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By
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, The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By
If you do still have to work for a boss at a job you don't like, as almost everyone does at some point, don't moan about it. Have a positive out —look on life and just get on with it. Work hard and earn your pay. Enjoy the people you come into contact with through your job. And if you are still unhappy, make it instead your goal to divide your private life from your work life. Have fun in your own time, you will feel happier and you'll enjoy your life and your job more.
— Richards Branson
You remain a follower for life when you pay for what people do while nobody pays you for what you do. Do something impressive and become a leader!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
Failure doesn't means falling down
—  it means hiding somewhere to safeguard own interest.
Remember, you will always fail in business if you don't try to open your own business.
— Steven Ivy - Attorney Entrepreneur
If the iPhone gained traction, RIM’s senior executives believed, it would be with consumers who cared more about YouTube and other Internet escapes than efficiency and security. RIM’s core business customers valued BlackBerry’s secure and efficient communication systems. Offering mobile access to broader Internet content, says Mr. Conlee, “was not a space where we parked our business.
— Sean Silcoff, Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
Practice holding labels lightly as leaders so you have greater range in your behaviors and are more adaptable and effective in a greater range of situations.
— Henna Inam, Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
Intentions do not insulate us from the consequences of our actions.
— Jon D Harrison
Living like this is a full-time business.
— Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting
Catch a customer with emotion and you will have a customer for a day; but, capture a customer with value and you will keep a customer for a lifetime. I truly believe in good, old-fashioned values when it comes to business. That is what timelessness is made of! At the end of the day, the question is, “Do you want to build a good hut for a day or do you want to build a good fortress for a lifetime?” Quality, value, understanding the needs of your clientele— that’s how you build a legacy. Connect with people, because you can never underestimate just how many people out there are yearning for any form of good interpersonal connection that they can find and when you can provide that as a brand name, you can allow the person behind your business to shine through. That’s how timelessness is created. It’s not created by luring people into a myth; it’s created by making connections, by remembering people’s names, by being genuinely interested in everybody.
— C. JoyBell C.
The moment I entered the bright, buzzing lobby of Men’s House I was overcome by a sense of alienation and hostility … The lobby was the meeting place for various groups still caught up in the illusions that had just been boomeranged out of my head: college boys working to return to school down South; older advocates of racial progress with utopian schemes for building black business empires; preachers ordained by no authority except their own, without church or congregation, without bread or wine, body or blood; the community “leaders” without followers; old men of sixty or more still caught up in post-Civil War dreams of freedom within segregation; the pathetic ones who possessed noting beyond their dreams of being gentlemen, who held small jobs or drew small pensions, and all pretending to be engaged in some vast, though obscure, enterprise, who affected the pseudo-courtly manners of certain southern congressmen and bowed and nodded as they passed like senile old roosters in a barnyard; they younger crowd for whom I now felt a contempt such as only a disillusioned dreamer feels for those still unaware that they dream—the business students from southern colleges, for whom business was a vague, abstract game with rules as obsolete as Noah’s Ark but who yet were drunk on finance.
— Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Business leaders cultivate vision to unify teams
—  the teams cultivate business to fulfill the vision.
You discover or re-discover yourself only through travel, and unplanned travel is the most exhilarating experience. I truly believe that not all those who wander are lost. But for the ones who are lost, wandering is the only way to find themselves.
— Vishwas Mudagal
My 11 #books come without pomp n frills, for all seeking #true #meaning & unafraid of overcoming past conditioning. #Rewards are infinite
— Michael Levy
How Ironic, when you do business you create exceptions to create new opportunities, when you write code (do a job) you handle exception to make it clean.
— Pushkar Saraf
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.
— Shawn Achor
The most successful business in the history of mankind is religion, and it is the most cost effective in franchising its ideology through ignorance and spreading of hate…. Such business has exceeded any expectation, and if it would transcend itself into world trading, it would have been the most valuable stock in any market….ever.
— Husam Wafaei
Meet your people where they are. They may not be as good as they can be, but they are as good as they believe they can be. They are waiting for you to lead them.
— Susan C. Foster, It's Not Rocket Science: Leading, Motivating and Inspiring Your Team To Be Their Best
Life is not enjoyed by being busy over everything in general, but being passionate about one thing in particular. Always focus on that one thing; dream it and live it!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Nothing happens to a business growth until someone sells its product.
— David W. Wang, Cash in on Cloud Computing
Of more angst to drivers are the customer ratings systems imposed by the app companies. While most drivers do not have a problem with the notion of being rated, they are concerned that they will receive poor marks for circumstances beyond their control. Customers can give even the most earnest drivers bad ratings for any reason such as bumpy rides over pothole strewn roads, traffic congestion and passengers underestimating how much time they need to reach their destinations. Miscommunication between passengers and drivers can occur because passengers cannot speak the local language, are drunk, or fall asleep and cannot direct the driver to their remote destinations. Perhaps some passengers just do not like the ethnic group to which some drivers appear to belong. Circumstances such as these are clearly the fault of passengers who may rate drivers poorly nonetheless.Drivers with low ratings can be expelled from on-demand taxi services. This unfairness is compounded to the extent that drivers make large investments in their cars, insurance and fuel. Making drivers, who basically invested in a franchise, vulnerable to expulsion from a system because of unfair ratings seems to me to be a potential source of dissention or even litigation. Another concern associated with the taxi app business model is that drivers only have 15 seconds to respond to notices of pick up opportunities. Drivers that fail to respond in such tight windows lose the business. Repeat failures to make timely responses can result in temporary suspensions. This pressure, and related distractions associated with interacting with handsets, is applied simultaneously with all of the challenges of navigating traffic in a variety of weather conditions. Foremost, this is a driving hazard that imperils everyone in the vicinity. It also ties in with the ratings systems because drivers are only rated on the rides they complete. Drivers who claim rides but abandon the customer if it looks like the pickup will be delayed have no ratings risk. Paradoxically, no ratings result in the worst customer service as passengers end up stranded.
— David Wanetick, Business Model Validation
It's not only how much money you make. It's what you do with it that determines your financial condition.
— Sandra S. Simmons, Unleash Your Cash Flow Mojo: The Business Owner's Guide to Predicting, Planning and Controlling Your Company's Cash Flow
When it comes to money, ignorance is NOT bliss. What you don't know CAN hurt you.
— Sandra S. Simmons, Unleash Your Cash Flow Mojo: The Business Owner's Guide to Predicting, Planning and Controlling Your Company's Cash Flow
Age did not have to prohibit or inhibit a woman’s ability to make money or a living. Age did not diminish a woman’s usefulness as a self-employed person or entrepreneur. Age did not limit the ways in which a woman made money through self-employment or entrepreneurship.
— Robin Caldwell, When Women Become Business Owners
it was always something what we did or said, and there would be this flash, and then it didn't subside. all your past sins would be brought up, it was just endless. and my mother attributed it sometimes to having neuralgia, but she never showed that outwardly
— Alice Schroeder
Later film shoots’ casting calls would advertise that they’re “fun shoots” and a “good way to get exposure”—but working in entertainment is not entertaining, even though it is not what’s traditionally thought of as “work.” You know what’s fun, indie filmmakers? Being paid for your time.
— J. Richard Singleton, Background Guy
If it's glorious to fail in great attempts, then #gloriousfail should definitely be a thing.
— Brandon David Hastings
I believe in the 20/80 rule. That's where working an extra 20% faster, harder, or smarter gets you an extra 80% of the rewards.
— Brandon David Hastings
In our own lives, we will try something new and, finding that it isn't easy for us, we conclude we don't have a talent for it.
— Geoff Colvin
You will reach success if you move forward, staying still only makes your journey longer.
— Milad Ghane
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, Going Postal
The more you engage and connect, the more engagement and connections you will have.
— Loren Weisman
Because discipline is misunderstood or not as valued as it has been, the United States—and some might argue the world—is experiencing a cultural leadership crisis.
— John    Manning, The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters
I believe a leader is inspired by his/her team to lead them.
— Unarine Ramaru
Advertisement shouldn’t look like information, it should look like a promise.
— Amit Kalantri
Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.
— Rusty solomon
[Performance with purpose is] basically PepsiCo saying that companies can no longer perform and toss costs to society. We believe that the new future is public-private partnerships, where companies feel responsible for society at large.
— Indra Nooyi
Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score
— Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back Into Your Business
If you keep looking at your business wishes as delusional dreams you will end up running just another one of them. If you get inspired by your business wishes then plan to find a way and people to make it happen, you will end up mastering a second to none organization.
— Sameh Elsayed
I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.
— Eric Greitens, The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL
Going to work every day was like my hair was on fire and all I had to put it out was a hammer.
— Bethany McLean
Being busy is different from taking action.
— Keshni Kashyap, Tina's Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary
I have always believed that a trademark is the life of an enterprise and that it must be protected boldly. A trademark and a company name arenot just clever gimmicks-they carry responsibility and guarantee the quality of the product. If someone tries to get a free ride on the reputation and the ability of another who has worked to build up public trust, it is nothing short of thievery. We were not flattered by this theft of our name.
— Akio Morita
Truthfulness is the golden thread that binds good lives, good relationships, and our very legacy.
— John    Manning, The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters
Scout out competitors’ websites. Everything your competitors think is important or relevant usually exists on their website.
— John    Manning, The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters
If you don't get any motivation from your team, there is nothing wrong with those you lead but your form of leadership.
— Unarine Ramaru
When you are on top of your game you don’t have to talk about it, the world will do that for you.
— Dorethia Conner Kelly
Every time you invite a candidate to interview, you should expect to be interviewed, too.
— Stacy Feiner, Talent Mindset
Every leader is different. Every bench is different. Every business is different. So while the complexities change, the work of coaching stays the same keep your clients at the center of the work, push them to use their strengths more and to temper their weaknesses, and illuminate blind spots because these are what really get in the way.
— Stacy Feiner, Talent Mindset
Make sure that some aspects of your ideal day show up every day for you in business and in life.
— David J. Greer, Wind In Your Sails
Political skills are essential career competencies to get ahead and stay ahead.
— Bonnie Marcus, The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead
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.
— David J. Greer, Wind In Your Sails
Our hesitancy to take credit for our accomplishments results in a loss of power, influence, and political capital in the workplace.
— Bonnie Marcus, The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead
Who better than Wal-Mart, after all, to make a kilowatt of electricity go twice as far, or a gallon of fuel move our trucks move three times the distance?" -Wal-Mart ad
— Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Your personal growth, how you show up, and the ways you lead ultimately determine the success of your business and your life.
— David J. Greer, Wind In Your Sails
Have the courage to walk away from a fantastic deal, if the person on the other side is disprepectful or trying to pull a smart one on you.' Temptation should never rule a deal, the value should, fairplay should and acceptance on either side that the deal is being made for the value being created for both!
— Abha Maryada Banerjee, Nucleus: Power Women: Lead from the Core
Wal-Mart's business in the United States is stagnating, growing only because the company continues to relentlessly open new stores. But if Wal-Mart takes environmental responsibility seriously, if its stores become models for energy conservation and for doing minimal environmental harm (they are known for the opposite right now), that will be pioneering, and it might also be attractive to some Americans who have avoided Wal-Mart. If those stores are filled with products made by factory workers who are treated in a civilized fashion, products that do not damage the environment in the course of being made, products made in sustainable ways with minimal packaging,that will represent a pivot point, not just for Wal-Mart, or for retailing, but for capitalism. Nothing could do more to jump-start Wal-Mart's business than for Wal-Mart to find its soul.And of course, Wal-Mart's scale means that if it starts to take the design of its buildings and the impact of its products seriously, all its competitors will have no choice but to do the same. The virtuous Wal-Mart effect would ripple widely. It would ripple around the world.
— Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
Wal-Mart can't seem to grasp an essential fact: in 2006, the company has exactly the reputation it has earned. No, we don't give the company adequate credit for low prices. But the broken covenant Sam Walton had with how to treat store employees, the relentless pressure that hollows out companies and dilutes the quality of their products, the bullying of suppliers and communities, the corrosive secrecy, the way Wal-Mart has changed our own perception of price and quality, of value and durability--none of these is imaginary, or trivial, or easily changed with a fresh set of bullet points, an impassioned speech, and a website heavy with "Wal-Mart facts".If Wal-Mart does in fact double the gas mileage of its truck fleet, and thereby double the gas mileage of every long-haul truck in America, that will be huge. It will change gas consumption in the United States in a single stroke. But it hasn't happened yet. And even if it does, it will not make Wal-Mart a good company or a good corporate partner or a good corporate citizen.
— Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you’ve closed for the day and flips the board.
— Mark      Miller, Chess, Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game
You cannot run a multimillion-dollar business like you would a lemonade stand.
— Mark      Miller, Chess, Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game
Don’t confuse “strict confidentiality” with “keeping employees in the dark.” Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.
— Stacy Feiner, Talent Mindset
Don’t buy into the campaign that people don’t like change. We are built for it.
— Stacy Feiner, Talent Mindset
For all the folks whose job it was to be ready for [Hurricane] Katrina, but who weren't, from the Oval Office, right down the chain of command to the New Orleans police department, Wal-Mart was a vivid reproach.
— Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
Never underestimate the staying power of a bad idea.
— RC Longworth
Every time you see the Wal-Mart smiley face, whistling and knocking down the prices, somewhere there's a factory worker being kicked in the stomach. - Sherrie Ford
— Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
Wal-mart has done such a superb job of austerity, from start to finish, that austerity is all that's left.
— Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
The small stuff matters. The company that became the largest and most powerful in history isn't a military contractor or a car company. It isn't the result of savvy lobbyists in Washington, or the happenstance of controlling the supply of petroleum, or some kind of cabal that is beyond the understanding of ordinary people. The largest and most powerful company in history is built by each of us handing over three single dollar bills over and over again.
— Charles Fishman
We want clean air, clean water, good living conditions, the best health care in the world. Yet we aren't willing to pay for anything manufactured under those restrictions.
— Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
How many companies can say that the amount of customers who use their services second most often, and spend the second most amount of money with them, are “very negative”?
— Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
Wal-Mart benefits from the impression that globalization is some kind of unmanageable economic weather system out of the control of everyone, affecting all players with indifference, benefiting those who happened to be properly prepared.
— Charles Fishman
Wal-Mart is so large, its reach so great, that it has created an ecosystem in which its suppliers and competitors, and their suppliers and competitors, and their customers, all operate. Wal-Mart sets the metabolism, it sets the rules, of that ecosystem. Wal-Mart has inexorably changed our expectations as shoppers—and the Wal-Mart effect also extends to consumers who never shop at Wal-Mart. Likewise, Wal-Mart has reshaped the companies that supply it—and it has also reset the pace and the competitive landscape even for companies that try to do business outside the Wal-Mart ecosystem.
— Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
Sometimes cheap is inexpensive. Sometimes it's cheap.
— Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
Don’t live like a CEO when you’re still a sandwich artist.
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Never mind your intentions. Communication is about what others hear with your words.
— Dianna Booher, What More Can I Say?: Why Communication Fails and What to Do About It
The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it.
— Ryan Lilly, Write like no one is reading
Good communication may not make a risky deal safe, but poor communication may sell benefits of a good deal.
— Dianna Booher, What More Can I Say?: Why Communication Fails and What to Do About It
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, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Integrity is not just a smart and moral way to navigate your personal life. It’s also part of your professional branding, and it will inevitably affect your business success.
— Joe M. Turner
Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit.
— Ryan Lilly
Look for the failures in your successes and the successes in your failures.
— Bob Sutton
Networking is an investment in your business. It takes time and when done correctly can yield great results for years to come.
— Diane Helbig, Lemonade Stand Selling: Accelerate Your Small Business Growth
Pool is a game of thinking, strategy and accuracy - just like in business.
— Shay Mizrahi
If you run a business, you know that every moment 365*24*7 people want to F*** with your business.
— Pushkar Saraf
In any case where someone is hurt within himself because of a mere jealousy over your success expedition, that is none of your business.You don’t bring yourself low in order to please those who envy you.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Profit isn’t and shouldn’t be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number — it’s not X dollars or Y customers — it’s a measurement of VALUE.
— Fran Tarkenton
When success is your only option, positivity has to be your only choice.
— Germany Kent
Business is boss, politics is servant.
— Amit Kalantri
Diplomacy is the art of getting what you want without offending anyone too badly.
— Christopher Nutall
If the reason of your sleeplessness is competition, then you will make a successful businessman.
— Amit Kalantri
A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.
— Burton G. Malkiel
There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.
— Jason Fried
If you aren't going out for business, you may go out of business.
— Robert J. Braathe
Purpose of Life: Understand Who You AreBelieve In Yourself.
— Ian Jackson
Success is a journey. The best form of transport is Happiness.
— Roy Smoothe, Success Lessons From Cool Entreprenuers
There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system...
— Milton Friedman
Forget "six degrees of separation" today it's "six degrees of CONNECTION.
— Morag Barrett, Cultivate: The Power of Winning Relationships
If leadership is the way forward, vision is its walking stick.
— Nkem Paul
Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time.
— Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions
Lately...the Peter Principle has given way to the "Dilbert Principle." The basic concept of the Dilbert Principle is that the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.
— Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions
Theory of Evolution (Summary)First, there were some amoebas. Deviant amoebas adapted better to the environment, thus becoming monkeys. Then came Total Quality Management.
— Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions
What's on your billboard?
— Monika Zands
Figure out the WHY you want it and turn it into a desire and then and obsession!
— Darren D.O. Connell
Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.
— Philip K. Dick
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
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
If there's one lesson I can pass along to people in situations like mine, it's that the best way to see a program through -- and it took me a long time to learn this -- is simply to accept the help, cooperate, and let others do what they think is worthwhile. In the meantime, continue racing to the finish line.
— Joe Sutter
Sales professional is a profession deals with people, it's a people business not a selling job.
— Sivaprakash Sidhu
the prudent business mind must not only think of competing with the prevailing giants in the market but must also not be oblivious of the latent deft of the masses who are yet to dare
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There is a mistake technical and scientific people make. We think that if we have made a clever and thoughtful argument, based on data and smart analysis, then people will change their minds. This isn't true. If yoy want to change people's behavior, you need to touch their hearts, not just win the arguments. We call this the Oprah Winfrey rule.
— Eric Schmidt
Your Potential can far exceed your expectations
— Cody McLain
A #GIRLBOSS knows when to throw punches and when to roll with them.
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Money amplifies what type of person you are in the world.
— Sam Joseph Haim
Only move forward with creating a product that will be "above the bar.
— Brian Lawley, Optimal Product Process
Don't focus all your time and effort on creating the templates & perfecting the documents. Answering key product questions is more critical.
— Brian Lawley, Optimal Product Process
Do not compromise on the quality and your customers will not negotiate on the price.
— Amit Kalantri
To find your way you must first take the steps
— Martin Powell
Entrepreneur, if you're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind
— Onyi Anyado
If you believe that you're doing will positive results, it will - even if it's not immediately obvious.
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
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.
— Andrew Leigh, Ethical Leadership: Creating and Sustaining an Ethical Business Culture
Entrepreneur, your last 20 tweets has to be about your brain, brand and business.
— Onyi Anyado
To satisfy a want or a need, you must first go for it
— Martin Powell
Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.
— Andrew Griffin, Crisis, Issues and Reputation Management: A Handbook for PR and Communications Professionals
It's time to calculate your risks make amends to reduce errors and increase your successes
— Martin Powell
Inspiring leadership communication is not about great oratory or great charisma; rather it is about getting others to believe in themselves and believe in your cause, and then achieve more than they thought was possible.
— Kevin Murray
Make project plan as simple as possible, but not simpler.
— Gerry Geek
If you're not called crazy when you launch something new, it means you're not thinking BIG enough.
— Linda Rottenberg, Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags
e-Commerce makes it easy to spend money. Netiquette makes you aware hidden fees. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles
For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.
— Andrew Griffin, Crisis, Issues and Reputation Management: A Handbook for PR and Communications Professionals
The house you built can cave you in if you didn't do it right.
— Unarine Ramaru
During rough time in a Business, a Leader should act like a ship captain. His first and foremost priority should be to put his employees to security before thinking of his own welfare.
— Indy Bissessur
A friend’s 14-year-old niece was asked by her teacher what she wanted to be when she finished school. The teacher asked her to think hard about it and then get back to him with an answer. She didn’t know what to say to her teacher. A friend, on hearing the girl’s predicament, said: ‘Tell your teacher that, perhaps, the thing you want to be when you leave school hasn’t been invented yet.
— Ian Sanders, Mash-up!: How to Use Your Multiple Skills to Give You an Edge, Make Money and Be Happier
Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.
— Hilarie Owen
Manager! Have brain - use it!
— Gerry Geek
Any idiot can point out a problem. So, bosses do.
— Gerry Geek
I found a new breed of people, 'Facebook Man' - Comments on anything, but don't even have a single own Status post!!!
— G.S. Sreekiran
It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry.
— Gerry Geek
Business is Ideas only notRupees or Dollars
— Aboobacker Amani
If you aim to be the best then it's essential to evolve constantly, learn from past mistakes, look for new opportunities and have the flexibility to implement improved processes and solutions along the way.
— Mark Gallagher
Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.
— Ryan Lilly
Tact is the knack of keeping quiet at the right time
—  of being so agreeable yourself that no one can be disagreeable to you
Have an attitude of positive expectation.
— Germany Kent
I want to say right here that the easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.
— George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Some salesmen think that selling is like eating—to satisfy an existing appetite
—  but a good salesman is like a good cook—he can create an appetite when the buyer isn't hungry.
Every action or perceived inaction shapes credibility.
— Mindy   Hall, Leading with Intention: Every Moment Is a Choice
1164At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social media is a huge step into bringing peace into our world.
— Germany Kent
At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto Twitter is a huge step into bringing peace into our world.
— Germany Kent
At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social media is a huge step into bringing peace into our world.
— Germany Kent