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People believe that through the American way of life they can work together to encourage wider ownership of economic activities. In this way, they believe they can develop an economy of abundance which will provide a maximum of security and freedom.
— Murray D. Lincoln, Vice President in Charge of Revolution
Of course, clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal. A dirty shirt may hide a pure heart, but it seldom covers a clean skin. If you look as if you had slept in our clothes, most men will jump to the conclusion that you have, and you will never get to know them well enough to explain that your head is so full of noble thoughts that you haven't time to bother with the dandruff on your shoulders...Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.
— George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
We wrote Shift Ahead to document how the smartest companies and organizations shift their strategiesin order to stay relevant in the face of swift and exponential changes in everything from technology tothe forces of globalization, from politics and culture, from consumer tastes to human behavior. Wewanted to find out how they shift ahead – how they stayed ahead of the curve, the competition, and theevolving requirements of their customers – given the barrage of evolving challenges.
— Allen Adamson, Shift Ahead: How the Best Companies Stay Relevant in a Fast-Changing World
Isn’t it obvious to an organization when a promise is becoming less meaningful to consumers? Couldn’t those organizations that did not successfully shift ahead see that consumers were losing interest? Sure, on Monday night everyone’s a professional quarterback and can tell you which of Sunday’s football plays were foolish, or made for the turning point in the game. Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. It’s foresight, seeing the red flags in advance of the risks, that makes the difference on the road to success. And, so before we get to anything else associated with the process of being able to shift ahead, we get to the red flags.
— Allen Adamson, Shift Ahead: How the Best Companies Stay Relevant in a Fast-Changing World
People are accustomed to thinking of accounting as dry and boring, a necessary evil used primarily to prepare financial reports and survive audits, but that is because accounting is something that has become taken for granted.
— Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Understanding who isn’t your ideal customer sometimes helps you better clarify who is.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Creating a plan to bring in more business in a way that does not ultimately support yourannual goals is fighting against yourself.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
If your plan is not working, pivot. If it is working, do more of it!
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
The time to market yourself is all of the time.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
To set yourself up for success, you need to be real about what you can commit to consistently.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Make no mistake: if you want to make it as an entrepreneur, you simply can’t do it on your own. This is a nonnegotiable!
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
If you choose the right vendors, your collective and sincere motives should establish both trust & grace on both sides of the relationship.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Remember that businesses are made up of humans like you. They aren’t going to be perfect and they willneed encouragement, clarification, and correction to deliver their best.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Remember that businesses are made up of humans like you. They aren’t going to be perfect and they will need encouragement, clarification, and correction to deliver their best.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Exceptional customer service proactively manages your brand and reactively can turn upset customers into raving fans based on how you handled their complaint.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Walk a mile in your customers’ stilettos or loafers. Try to understand where they are in the moment.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
I pick my technology like I picked my husband. It has to complement, not complicate, my life.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Time cannot be managed. It’s going to pass you by, whether or not you are trying to manage it.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Time management is reactive, whereas time strategy is proactive.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Batching or “bucketing” your tasks is ripping the Band- Aid off whenever you have to deal with ongoing activities.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Bucketing your time or your tasks keeps you in the zone.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Raise your hand if your calendar ever makes you feel the need for an oxygen mask!
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
I call dealing with your calendar the “calendar boogie” because you seriously have to dance around to pull it alltogether.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
I’m telling you that responsibly applying time strategy and proactively leveraging your calendar is the dumb ol’ secret to seeing your dreams come true.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
With a strong personal brand, you become the only option in the eyes of your ideal customer.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Your culture is the birthplace of your brand.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Service standards create the standard of expectation that you and all team members follow when interacting with customers.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Only you can create bold goals that attract success for your business as you use your God-given gifts to serve others.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Creating an ideal customer profile helps you understand who are you talking to through your marketing, and it helps you carry that message and vibe through to your customerexperience.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Before you can decide on your brand fonts, colors or imagery, let alone your messaging, you need to know who you're trying to attract first.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
The thing is, If you try to market to everyone, then you successfully market to no one.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
If I had a dollar for every time someone asked, “What do you think about this logo?” I’d be rich.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Your ideal customer should be attracted to the brand that rests on the fabulous culture youcreated, but they don’t have to share your personal interests or have the same lifestyle you do.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is someone who is the king of his business one day and its slave the next.
— Ajeet Sharma, Three Marketeers
As Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines succinctly put it, 'Strategy, overdone; doing stuff, underdone'.
— Carlo Ancelotti, Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches
No matter how big a company is, one has to always look at business basics.
— Tarun Sharma
Online Faxing - A tool that does one thing and it does it well"-ifaxapp
— Andy Fax
You have no idea how destructive and wasteful your infrastructure is because you don't need to use it the way the workforce does... Drive the forklift, use the database, fill out the form, submit it to HR, and find out how long it takes to get a response. Use your own infrastructure.
— Bill Jensen, Hacking Work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results
Nearly all rich an powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.
— Paul Arden, It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
Promoting pathology beneath neurosis to instill victimization is propoganda.
— Mark Sherman Smeester
Do not shoot. Please.If you are convinced that you are not a liar, you probably analyze every one, instead of evaluating nothing. Questions are the most effective advertisements.
— Mark Sherman Smeester
Business does not need planning anymore. It demands out-of-the-box thinking.
— Haresh Sippy
For some, I realize, business is the all-out pursuit of profits, period, full stop, but for us business was no more about making money than being human is about making blood.
— Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
Whether you're a bride or a birthday boy, your options are much the same. Cake comes in chocolate, yellow, or white. Frosting comes in chocolate or vanilla buttercream, or you can opt for whipped cream. Fillings are either chocolate or vanilla custard, fresh bananas, or strawberries or raspberries in season. For birthday cakes, you can have either flowers or balloons in your choice of colors. For wedding cakes, you can add either fondant or marzipan covering, or either smooth or basket-weave buttercream, in white or ivory, with either pearl-like dots or ribbony swags made of frosting, and fondant faux flowers are extra.
— Stacey Ballis, Wedding Girl
Businesses need to be more alert. Sometimes the problem is not the customer service, it is the product.
— Janna Cachola
Good is the enemy of great
— Jim Collins
If you would not spend time looking at it, do not ship it. One of the best quality assurance rules of thumb is to avoid publishing content that you would not consume. Simple, yet so hard to execute on. My audience deserves my very best. Repeat that to yourself every single day.
— Laura Busche, Powering Content: Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine
Do not confuse location with direction. Location is where you are, direction is where you are going.
— Laura Busche, Powering Content: Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine
CRM doesn't have to be hard, if you plan for how all the pieces will work together BEFORE you start your implementation.
— Lars Helgeson
Design is your silent storyteller. The visual aesthetic you share with the world tells a story about the values you uphold. When your audience is not ready or willing to listen, a strong visual can capture even the most evasive of minds. Design is not ornamental or secondary: it can propel your stories far beyond the spaces you initially planned for.
— Laura Busche, Powering Content: Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine
I would love to tell you that being a content manager is easy. Straightforward. That you will be able to focus on what is most important and leave everything else aside. But a lot of it is learning to create something compelling in the middle of an absolute whirlwind. Learning to use a huge list of tools that need to be sharpened every day. It is about zooming out when you need big picture thinking, and zooming in when the details need to be ironed out. Managing content, business expectations, and human beings: all at once.
— Laura Busche, Powering Content: Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine
You can practice your grumpy face a million times, you can make a dog surf, you can explode in laughter like Chewbacca mom, and still not “go viral”. You can, however, secure incredibly valuable exposure by spending more time on distribution.
— Laura Busche, Powering Content: Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine
Some creators shy away from systems because they seem overpowering and rigid. However, in reality, strong systems are the only way in which you will ever have time and space for flexibility. This is true for content production, business, and many other areas of life.
— Laura Busche, Powering Content: Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine
Yes, Pilcher was a money-man. They were a type. It was easy to spot them. You could always tell one by that cold fire in his eyes. It was not the hot fire of the man who would never interrupt a dream to calculate the risk, but the cold fire of the man whose mind was geared to the rules of the money game. It was a game that was played with numbers on pieces of paper … common into preferred, preferred into debentures, debentures into dollars, dollars into long-term capital gains. It was the net dollars after tax that were important. They were the numbers on the scoreboard, the runs that crossed the plate, the touchdowns, the goals. Net dollars were the score markers of the money-man’s game. Nothing else mattered. A factory wasn’t a living, breathing organism. It was only a dollar sign and a row of numbers after the Plant & Equipment item on the balance sheet. Their guts didn’t tighten when they heard a big Number Nine bandsaw sink its whining teeth into hard maple. Their nostrils didn’t widen to the rich musk of walnut or the sharply pungent blast from the finishing room. When they saw a production line they looked with blind eyes, not feeling the counterpoint beat of their hearts or the pulsing flow of hot blood or the trigger-set tenseness of lungs that were poised to miss a breath with every lost beat on the line
— Cameron Hawley, Executive Suite
Scale yourself. Go beyond what you can do and what you know. Look at your content machine and make it work nonstop, seamlessly, and at scale with or without you.
— Laura Busche, Powering Content: Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine
Synergy without strategy results to waste of energy.
— Ogwo David Emenike
I cannot stress this enough: content creators need to stop comparing their work with that of total strangers. Furthermore, we need to stop seeing ourselves as content consumers and realize that, as producers, we need time and distance from what is already out there in order to create truly innovative work. If you are always exposing your mind to others’ work, when will you gain the strength to create your own? Find a balance between inspiration and creation, and make sure that the first is indeed inspiring. What might start as a journey to gather ideas can quickly become a shortcut to discouragement. Know when to stop.
— Laura Busche, Powering Content: Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine
We are faced with the incredible challenge of creating high quality content for a crowd of skimmers. The faster you understand this, the more effective your content tactics will become.
— Laura Busche, Powering Content: Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine
Social Media= Business. Period.
— Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion
Being authentic, and being perceived as such by your audience, relies on your ability to ensure that every decision you make when it comes to your business is rooted in being true to yourself.
— Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion
Despite the modern equipment we sell, it's old money that funds it, and old money doesn't always have a modern brain attached to it.
— Taylin Clavelli, Secret Of The Manor
Posting dramatic charts or funny pictures is good and giving people smart reasons to believe what they already think is great.
— Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral.
— Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The lows may be the highs in disguise.
— Haresh Sippy
The trick is learning to frame your new ideas as tweaks of old ideas, to mix a little fluency with a little disfluency—to make your audience see the familiarity behind the surprise.
— Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
Some consumers buy products not because they are ‘better” in any way, but simply because they are popular. What they’re buying is not just a product, but also a piece of popularity itself.
— Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
Rome was not built in a day, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in a day.
— Vijay Kedia
3 qualities of a good investor
— KnowledgeCourage &Patience.
The standard business model for corporations is to lie, confuse and deny anything that may threaten their profitability.
— Steven Magee
A business owner who is not willing to invest in their business is a business owner who shouldn't be in business.
— Victoria Barnes
Where there is a risk, there is a wealth.
— Auliq Ice
Content sparks our connections with others, our own selves, and the world. What we decide to share is a powerful expression of where we stand and where we want to go. An essential part of the human spirit, this constant information sharing is what ultimately builds the bridges between us. Every image, text, sound, or video that you have released into the world carries a part of you that others can relate to. If actions reveal our priorities, the content we share explains them.
— Laura Busche, Powering Content: Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine
Everyone is either building an audience or being an audience these days. Someone, somewhere in the world is thinking up content that will appeal to you as you read this. You are someone’s target audience.
— Laura Busche, Powering Content: Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine
Human beings are complex information consumers: they have active needs, passions, and preferences. They lead different lifestyles — some that you will never be able to empathize with unless you dive deep in qualitative and quantitative data. And that is precisely the point of persona research.
— Laura Busche, Powering Content: Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine
Personally, I believe in tools that close the gap between professionals and beginners, understanding that — push comes to shove — this is a world of beginners.
— Laura Busche, Powering Content: Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine
I find that the harder I work , the more luck I seem to have.
— Thomas Jefferson
The whole purpose of choosing to invest as a career is to let the management be constantly worried about his company and let yourself sip your wine
—  But the opposite happens.
Market rewards you as per your perception.
— Vijay Kedia
If you find even the smallest way to make people smile, they’ll remember you more for that smile than for all your other fancy business-model stuff
— Derek Sivers
Golf is the great conductor of life's symphony. Not in my lifetime have I seen anything with more ability to change the course of futures. It has the ability to build lasting relationships in a few short hours, promote executives, fund projects, build teams, break down barriers, and create an environment of deal-making, stress relief, and wellness. It's the one place where we willingly shut off our phones, turn away from distraction and become one with nature and ourselves. -Thank you for being a part of our symphony, Network & Golf
— Colleen Ferrary Bader
Vision is the culmination of thought.
— Utkarsh Sharma
A bull doesn’t go wrong in predicting an upswing in a falling market. He goes wrong when he predicts a down swing in a rising market.
— Vijay Kedia
If you keep trying to hit a four but you keep on getting only one run. Then chances are when you will hit a six you will get caught.
— Vijay Kedia
Multibagger mantra
— find companies which are small in size:Medium in experience Large in aspiration &having an extra large market potential.
Investing is a business, investment is a project and investor is a promoter.
— Vijay Kedia
If you can not do great things, Do small things in a great way.
— Napoleon Hill
The moment you feel like you need to prove yourself, is the moment you need to be silent and walk away.
— Rachel Wolchin
Great things in business are never done by one person.They are done by a team of people
— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs: His Own Words and Wisdom
Unfortunately, the worst part of a product/service is the seller.
— Alin Sav
Developing a business depends on many factors. But you should basically understand the exchange between value. In other words, you must provide value to receive equal value. If you look at single people, you can see that they can’t provide any value – they don’t smile, dress, talk or behave in a way that makes others want to spend time, much less a life, with them. Relationships and Business are not much different. In a business, people know that appearance and the way you talk to a costumer is as important as the value of your product, and that’s why brands sell, even when their products have no quality. For example, in shopping malls you can see shops packed with people buying clothes that have no value and will be ruined or out of fashion very soon, because the brand is selling an image, not quality anymore. China, on the other hand, managed to compete in the world markets by reducing price over quality, and is now paying the price of a very bad reputation, as most people don’t trust Chinese brands anymore. This is already impacting the economy, so I don’t know what will happen in the next years. It’s all in the hands of the politicians and the internationalization of the companies. Actually, that’s why this Chinese government sends its companies to other countries. And yet, I just said this to explain the relation between value and product. But here’s another. I tried to share what I know about Learning with Teachers, Parents and Psychologists, and nobody cared. Besides, what I earned in helping children with learning disabilities was a very low payment, and I had to quit that as I couldn’t afford to pay an apartment and daily expenses with such job. However, there are people making thousands of dollars with drugs that have no effect, toilets for cats and pet-rocks. In other words, is never about what the world needs but what the world wants.
— Samuel River
The whole business is built on ego,vanity,self-satisfaction , and its total crap to pretend its not
— George Michael, George Michael - Unplugged
life is a continuous exercise is creative problem solving
— Michael J Gelb, Brain Power
Business is a bed of roses but need to remove thorns all the time
— Talees Rizvi
If you think training is expensive, try ignorance.
— Peter Dricler
If you can't share your story, you can't sell your product.
— Alin Sav
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
— Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher
Somebody who is focused on money, doesn´t care about man. Somebody who cares about man, isn´t focused on money.
— Alin Sav
The world is now being dominated by few Giant organizations that influence and dectate our consuming behavior.
— Ashraf Haggag, No Place to Stand Alone: Historical Mergers and Acquisitions in Different Corporate Markets
You don´t need a million dollar business, you just need a million dollar team.
— Alin Sav
The phone is the new tamagotchi. We have to feed it daily with energy to keep it alive.
— Alin Sav
Everyone has a business idea. But few have a team... and very few a vision.
— Alin Sav
If your content is good, your career just started.
— Alin Sav
The reason why you don´t have success is, because you don´t understand the difference between wasting and spending time.
— Alin Sav
The market changes faster than school can teach. Don´t lean on degrees.
— Alin Sav
If people don´t trust you, maybe you´ve told them the wrong story
— Alin Sav
Money makes a poor for few days rich. Education makes people rich without asking for money.
— Alin Sav
If you don't understand the principles of giving, money will make you poor.
— Alin Sav
The Prerequisite of any "Success Story" is the decision to commit in giving up your own soul to the Journey that you are about to start.
— Hisham Fawzi
Our business model has been to partner with bigger firms and team on projects to gain experience. A bigger firm always enhances my smaller firm’s position.
— Linda Rawson, The Minority and Woman-Owned Small Business Guide to Government Contracts: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
Abandon anything in your life and habits that might be holding you back.
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
without the mind the body is not capable of delivering anything beyond an average performance.
— David Amerland, The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
Some people applaud my no nonsense approach to life. Others say my methods are “extreme”. Where I’m headed and how I get there is between me and my God. So, if you don’t know where I’m going, how can you suggest I’m taking things too far?
— Carlos Wallace
Instead of complaining about adapting for millennials, it’s imperative for leaders and managers to acknowledge the role of millennial behavior as an indication of the needs of the modern workplace to attract, leverage, and retain modern talent.
— Crystal Kadakia, The Millennial Myth: Transforming Misunderstanding Into Workplace Breakthroughs
In MLM 10 people sign up and 11 leave.
— Alin Sav
If you want to save time, invest in a team.
— Alin Sav
People are hungry for success without work.
— Alin Sav
It really matters when the work we are doing doesn't.
— Scott Mautz, Make It Matter: How Managers Can Motivate by Creating Meaning
If your customers love you, they will not only remain fiercely loyal but become your most powerful marketing asset. Lovability is the greatest predictor of business success.
— Brian de Haaff, Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It
Dubai is a perfect place to start up your new business!. Switch to GFY Management Consultants for exploring best business options. best
— GFY Management Consultants
Darwin's Theory Survival of the Fittest, also applies into Business. Companies which consistently innovate, keep itself updated with customer's needs, market trends, check out their competition and accordingly make the strategy to evolve and keep them ahead of competition are the ones which are best suited for survival in Business Environment Evolution
— Ashu Gaur
There is no room for emotion in business.
— Kenneth Eade, Political Thriller: Unwanted, an American Assassin Story: an assassination, vigilante justice and terrorism thriller
10/20/30 Rule in my book can level the playing field for a retail forex trader to trade alongside big banks and hedge funds.
— Ramesh Selvarajoo, Trade Forex with Confidence: The 10/20/30 Rule for Unconventional Success
We can be competitive and aim to destroy our opponent or competition, but we can still respect our rivals and even be friends.
— Ben Tolosa, Masterplan Your Success
Sometimes Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker was thrown out of a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down.
— Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code
It may be of interest to future generals to realize that one makes plans to fit circumstances stances and does not create circumstances to fit plans. That way danger lies.
— William Duggan, Napoleon's Glance: The Secret of Strategy
If one can call anticipation of enemy reactions based on a lifetime of professional training and on thinking and application "intuition," he had it ... He was a professional soldier, a student of history
— William Duggan, Napoleon's Glance: The Secret of Strategy
I was not so insane as to attempt to bend events to conform to my policies. On the contrary, I bent my policies to accord with the unforeseen shape of the events.
— William Duggan, Napoleon's Glance: The Secret of Strategy
Being able to pick and read good waves is almost more important than surfing well.
— Shane Snow, Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
Convictions in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.
— Adam Grant, Originals
The highway behind gives me courage to move into the future. I desire to see the first light of tomorrow.
— John E. Quinlan, Tau Bada The Quest and Memoir of a Vulnerable Man
That Seigo could go into geisha houses, accept luncheon invitations, drop in at the Club, see people off at Shimabashi, meet them at Yokohama, run out to Oiso to humor the elders—that he could put in his appearance at large gatherings from morning to evening without seeming either triumphant or dejected—this must be because he was thoroughly accustomed to this kind of life, thought Daisuke; it was probably like the jellyfish's floating in the sea and not finding it salty.
— Sōseki Natsume, And Then
There is no such thing as weak competition
—  it grows all the time.
and I had spent a few days debating whether or not Michael was actually gay or just English. With the advent of metrosexuals and Europeans running around Manhattan, one never knows.
— Polly Courtney, Poles Apart
RULE #1Market your business to the customer YOU WANT.Most beauty businesses try to be everything to everyone. It's exhausting and expensive promoting yourself to everyone. Most people simply give up.Focus on the customers you really want. What is your passion, what do you excel in? Who is your ideal customer? What would you ideally like to do every day in your business?Focus on what you want to do and the clients you want, and market directly to them and only them.
— Jana Elston, RETAIL LEGENDS: How to have more CUSTOMERS coming through your door FAST, Beauty Salon Tips
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
— John D. Rockefeller
A few will say no, but many will say yes…remember that every No will get you closer to the many yeses as long as you have a system that works for you.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Your First Virtual Summit: Everything you need to know to create your first successful Virtual Summit
When Warren was a little boy fingerprinting nuns and collecting bottle caps, he had no knowledge of what he would someday become. Yet as he rode his bike through Spring Valley, flinging papers day after day, and raced through the halls of The Westchester, pulse pounding, trying to make his deliveries on time, if you had asked him if he wanted to be the richest man on earth—with his whole heart, he would have said, Yes.That passion had led him to study a universe of thousands of stocks. It made him burrow into libraries and basements for records nobody else troubled to get. He sat up nights studying hundreds of thousands of numbers that would glaze anyone else’s eyes. He read every word of several newspapers each morning and sucked down the Wall Street Journal like his morning Pepsi, then Coke. He dropped in on companies, spending hours talking about barrels with the woman who ran an outpost of Greif Bros. Cooperage or auto insurance with Lorimer Davidson. He read magazines like the Progressive Grocer to learn how to stock a meat department. He stuffed the backseat of his car with Moody’s Manuals and ledgers on his honeymoon. He spent months reading old newspapers dating back a century to learn the cycles of business, the history of Wall Street, the history of capitalism, the history of the modern corporation. He followed the world of politics intensely and recognized how it affected business. He analyzed economic statistics until he had a deep understanding of what they signified. Since childhood, he had read every biography he could find of people he admired, looking for the lessons he could learn from their lives. He attached himself to everyone who could help him and coattailed anyone he could find who was smart. He ruled out paying attention to almost anything but business—art, literature, science, travel, architecture—so that he could focus on his passion. He defined a circle of competence to avoid making mistakes. To limit risk he never used any significant amount of debt. He never stopped thinking about business: what made a good business, what made a bad business, how they competed, what made customers loyal to one versus another. He had an unusual way of turning problems around in his head, which gave him insights nobody else had. He developed a network of people who—for the sake of his friendship as well as his sagacity—not only helped him but also stayed out of his way when he wanted them to. In hard times or easy, he never stopped thinking about ways to make money. And all of this energy and intensity became the motor that powered his innate intelligence, temperament, and skills.
— Alice Schroeder, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
It is not God's business to bring security to people but it is our business to provide security for ourselves out of what he has given us.
— Sunday Adelaja
In business, it is better to be consistently bad than inconsistent.
— Len Peters
And finally have fun with it. If you’re not having fun, your speakers won’t have fun, and your participants won’t have fun. No matter what happens, remember that marketing should be fun, and life should be enjoyed.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Your First Virtual Summit: Everything you need to know to create your first successful Virtual Summit
Speakers are very busy people, with their own lives.Once you remember that sentence then it’s easy to know how to treat them and attract them.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Your First Virtual Summit: Everything you need to know to create your first successful Virtual Summit
Church and business are compatible
— Sunday Adelaja
People often ask if I pay my speakers to speak. No I don’t. If you are able to explain the benefits of the virtual summit to the speaker (which we address in chapter 5) then it will be easy for you to get the caliber of speakers you want.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Your First Virtual Summit: Everything you need to know to create your first successful Virtual Summit
A nation is safer and progressive when the citizens own or are involved in healthy businesses that can aid them enjoy good livelihood without any fear for tomorrow.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
In the last decade our attention span has dropped from 13 seconds to 8. To put that in comparison a goldfish has an attention span of 9 seconds. Don't be a goldfish.
— Candice Galek
Web design is not just about creating pretty layouts. It’s about understanding the marketing challenge behind your business.
— Mohamed Saad
When you decide to put your business online it is a little bet tricky step for novice computer users because they want to keep data safe & secure.This problem developed from companies which did not take security seriously
— Mohamed Saad
It’s one thing to have the respect of your peers in the business. Their opinions are not always verbalized but if you are doing the right thing you don’t need validation.
— Carlos Wallace
Don’t spend your time or money on being boring.
— Candice Galek
Where there is a dirt - we can clean! Yes true but none cleans garbage dumps!!
— V Narayanan
You don't feel thirty percent smarter when the stock goes up by thirty percent so when the stock goes down you shouldn't feel thirty percent dumber" Jeff Bezos
— Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
The only way to help someone is when you know they cannot return you back.Anything else is just business.
— Manoj Arora, Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always
People act in ways to maximize their self-interest within a company, so create incentives that align employee's objectives with the organization's mission statement. Reward compliance with core values as much as profitability, especially in the face of competitive pressures.
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
EWI: Emailing While Intoxicated
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
If you don't know the answer to a question, don't guess, don't speculate, don't hypothesize, don't make a joke it by email, tweet, conference call, or at a press conference...Somehow, eventually, the electronic communication surrounding a situation will be made public and clarify and clarify what actually transpired.
— Kent Alan Robinson, UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
The difference between companies that make $100,000 vs those that make $1bn dollars within the same industry is paying attention to detail.
— Lovemore Chirombo
Police internal affairs are in the business of protecting corrupt and incompetent police officers from prosecution due to the extensive range of laws that they have blatantly broken.
— Steven Magee
An average trader loses money, so in this profession, you need to be way above average to make consistent money trading the markets.
— Henrique M. Simões, Trading Course: How to Become a Consistently Winning Trader
If today your company doesn’t know what its ONE Thing is, then the company’s ONE Thing is to find out.
— Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
Those who think that you have no BOSS in your own business!Indeed, you have many bosses, “ THE CLIENTS
— Dr Rafiq Dar
There Are No Secrets of Success, It Is The Result of Preparation, Hard Work And Learning From Failures...
— Axay D. Bhisikar
If you don't appreciate your customers, someone else will.
— Jason Langella
In order to win as a contrarian, you need perfect timing and the perfect size.
— Henrique M. Simões, Trading Course: How to Become a Consistently Winning Trader
For me, I can not be right in anything unless there is no counter thoughts that contradict my wrong, in this case my thoughts will be right.
— Hisham Fawzi
It's not everyone that likes RnB, Hippop or Hiplife. However, each of them has their fans. Meaning not everyone will like you as a person, your ideologies or your business.But if you persist and strategically position yourself, then you will attract a segment of the market that loves everything about you.
— Oscar Bimpong
We’re starting to see a renaissance of investors embracing the idea that scientists can build businesses
— Ryan Bethencourt
When you have your revenue streams set up the right way, you can be confident the dollars are rolling in no matter what
— Desmond Ong, Against All Odds: Secrets Of Starting At 15, Achieving Million Dollars Sales & Financial Freedom Before 21
By digitizing a traditionally analog business model or process, we're effectively turning it into bits and atoms and enabling an infinite variety of possibilities.
— Nicholas D. Evans, Mastering Digital Business: How powerful combinations of disruptive technologies are enabling the next wave of digital transformation
Put it this way, George,” he suggested, when he had savoured the night air for a moment. “You traveling on business, or for pleasure in this thing? Which is it?Smiley’s reply was also slow in coming, and as indirect: “I was never conscious of pleasure,” he said. “Or perhaps I mean: of the distinction.
— John le Carré, Smiley's People
As one might gather from a painting of him scowling in a tall stovepipe hat, Day saw himself as a businessman, not a journalist. ''He needed a newspaper not to reform, not to arouse, but to push the printing business of Benjamin H. Day.''Day's idea was to try selling a paper for a penny - the going price for many everyday items, like soap or brushes. At that price, he felt sure he could capture a much larger audience than his 6-cent rivals. But what made the prospect risky, potentially even suicidal, was that Day would then be selling his paper at a loss. What day was contemplating was a break with the traditional strategy for making profit: selling at a price higher than the cost of production. He would instead rely on a different but historically significant business model: reselling the attention of his audience, or advertising. What Day understood-more firmly, more clearly than anyone before him-was that while his readers may have thought themselves his customers, they were in fact his product.
— Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
As an entrepreneur you own your business, you expand your brand, you increase your impact, you live with no excuses, and you enjoy your intentional growth daily.
— Farshad Asl
There is only one way to get anybody to do anything do you know what it is? This is far from a trivial question. Business is, after all, the ability to motivate a group of individuals to move an idea from concept to reality; to take a theory and make it a practice; to gain the buy-in of your employees and colleagues; to encourage others to execute your plans
— Keith Ferrazzi, Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
Thanks God that he created me dumb and crazy enough to believe that I can create and invent in other than what i studied in and what they want me to be.
— Hisham Fawzi
All data has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
— Damian Mingle
A great Country is not the Country with a great population,but a Country with a great number of persons that believe in entrepreneurship.
— Auliq-Ice
I have heard Silvius, an excellent physician of Paris, say that lest the digestive faculties of the stomach should grow idle, it were not amiss once a month to rouse them by this excess, and to spur them lest they should grow dull and rusty; and one author tells us that the Persians used to consult about their mostimportant affairs after being well warmed with wine.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Make it a habit to ask for business referrals. There's nothing pushy about it. People won't give you referrals unless you deserve them.
— Timi Nadela, Get To The Top
The movers & shakers of the world are not imbued with special powers. Once you realize that, you too can attain your rightful mantle.
— Mario J. Lucero
Be your own boss. If you're aiming for true wealth and freedom consider starting your own business.
— Timi Nadela, Get To The Top
The goal is to create a “chit,” or IOU, so that, assuming you continue to perform well, the organization feels like it owes you the next time.
— Carla Harris, Expect to Win: Proven Strategies for Success from a Wall Street Vet
The secret to success in business is synergy.
— Farshad Asl
Ask open ended questions. Pull out the pain and the hurt your prospect is experiencing.
— Timi Nadela, Get To The Top
Associations must evolve if they are to survive into the future.
— Omer Soker, The Future of Associations
Look inward for solutions to your greatest challenges.
— Omer Soker, The Future of Associations
The future is dependent on the decisions you make today.
— Omer Soker, The Future of Associations
You cannot be a modern association without a contemporary board.
— Omer Soker, The Future of Associations
Create and communicate absolute clarity of purpose.
— Omer Soker, The Future of Associations
Whatsa mattah allee time talkee talk bear business? Me no savvee bear business. You no like this Gloddam show, you go somewhere else.
— Charles G. Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao
It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
— John D. Rockefeller, Quotations by John D. Rockefeller
Know your biggest WHY? Why do you joined network marketing business. Why do you want to change your life? It is your WHY that pushes you and edges you towards the crown of glory in the industry. Discover your why and get things done quickly,
— Olawale Daniel
So rich a client having suffered such a messy death was an unsettling embarrassment to Captain Harald Biscay. It was bad for business. He had the murder hushed up immediately, his security staff investigating the matter covertly but thoroughly. Five and a half thousand souls onboard. Five and a half thousand suspects. Three days. So far, nothing. Now it would be taken further by the planetary authorities on the colony world below. A forensic team (cunningly disguised as a cleaning crew) was now rummaging through Smiffs apartment, examining every single particle. He had a feeling -- a strong feeling, about what they were going to find. Somehow, Biscay was of the opinion that this was going to be another contender for the Unsolved Murders show.
— Christina Engela, Dead Man's Hammer
If you don't have paying customers, you have a hobby.
— Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Volume 2: The Pain, Pitfalls, and Challenges of Servant Leadership Fundamentals
67% of all shoppers intend to return home with the item they are shopping for, but that only 24% actually do so.
— Roy H. Williams, The Wizard of Ads
The fate of your company is in the hands of your people. Train them well.
— Roy H. Williams, The Wizard of Ads
Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great
— James C. Collins, Good to Great by Jim Collins: Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review
A business that is not in love with its customers, but only the money they bring, should not expect love back.
— J. N. HALM
Customer service is all about FEELINGS! I am of the opinion that customer service is actually FEELINGS MANAGEMENT.
— J. N. HALM, CUSTOMER ROMANCE: A New Feel of Customer Service
Great companies know that customer relationships in these times call for more than just having a great product (or service) backed by a great sales team. Customers have to be wooed until they fall so deeply in love with your offering that they will ward off advances from potential suitors. No matter how well you perform as a business, there are little things that can cause the relationship with your customers to suffer. The companies, products and/or services that we love are those that “touch” us in the right places at the right times. After all, that is what “romancing” the customer is all about—feeing your way to the customer’s heart.
— J. N. HALM, CUSTOMER ROMANCE: A New Feel of Customer Service
One plus one makes two but two monologues do not make a dialogue. Of all the traits, characteristics, attributes and habits of today’s customers, the one that has serious consequences for businesses is this—today’s customer does not want to be just spoken to. She wants to be engaged in a dialogue. Today’s consumer expects to be part of the conversation about the product and/or service on offer. Today’s customer does not want to be fed with advertisements. Collaboration is what excites today’s customer.
— J. N. HALM, CUSTOMER ROMANCE: A New Feel of Customer Service
Those who deal with customers on a regular basis should be circumspect whenever they open their “traps.” It is better not to say anything at all than to say, and later, pay!
— J. N. HALM, CUSTOMER ROMANCE: A New Feel of Customer Service