c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Customer Romance does not just happen; neither is it dependent on just providing product or service for customers, nor is it a puzzling set of practices. Rather, it occurs as a result of a deliberate, thoughtful plan of action. Companies that are known to provide the best customer experiences have philosophies that guide them to take actions their competitors do not even dream of.
— J. N. HALM, CUSTOMER ROMANCE: A New Feel of Customer Service
I have come to realise that customers love companies that make them feel good about themselves—companies that reflect what they, the customers, believe about themselves. Customers fall in love with the company that says to them, "You are unique. You are great. We are the only ones who can make you feel that way. Fall in love with us and we will continue to make you feel great.
— J. N. HALM, CUSTOMER ROMANCE: A New Feel of Customer Service
Customers, like spouses, can be at your beck and call if you give them what they need, when they need it and how they need it. Massage their ego and you have them by the heart.
— J. N. HALM, CUSTOMER ROMANCE: A New Feel of Customer Service
[My parents] always seemed less like lovebirds than like amiable business partners, for whom I'm the sole product.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea.
— Clayton M. Christensen
In this day and age, it is the business that knows how to woo and win the hearts of its customers that will eventually win their pockets.
— J. N. HALM, CUSTOMER ROMANCE: A New Feel of Customer Service
An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.
— Reid Hoffman
The easiest thing to sell is truth.
— Daymond John, The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage
Year Zillion“What is your contribution to society?”“I mind my own business and I always know when to shut the fuck up.”**Gets Nobel Prize**If two people are happy together, just leave them alone.
— Eyden I., Kiss Friendzone Goodbye
The more deference there is, the narrower the band of judgements on which organisations rely. Deference acts like the fatty deposits that build up in arteries, restricting the flow of fresh, oxygen-enriched blood across the system.
— Robin Ryde, Never Mind the Bosses: Hastening the Death of Deference for Business Success
I hear you're a conspiracy nut. Well, this is the conspiracy, kid. It ain't ancient gods an' aliens an' coded shit on the dollar bill. It ain't even a secret, it's somthin' ordinary folks do for a livin' every day of the week. It's business.
— Garth Ennis, The Boys, Volume 3: Good For The Soul
Why do all this? Because there are people out there who need you, and they will be more than willing to give you what you need so you can give them your best, but if you're busy pursuing everyone, or if you're so drained at the end of the day, you won't be able to be your best and give your best.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Billionaire Mindset (for MoneyMaking Mommies): How to make your Billions and build your legacy
Surround yourself with people who are better than you in each individual area of business.
— Graham Speechley
Spring Of Rhythm is the best event management company from Mumbai.We have the team of Dedicated,Honest,Hard working,Creative and Well Experienced Staff.We have been consistently delevering our best result towards the flawless execution of events.We manage events across in india and abroad.We are here to fulfill your each and every requirement according to your expectation and budget.At Spring Of Rhythm your time and money are important to us and we try to go our extra mile to make you happy and full satisfied.Spring Of Rhythm is proficient in converting spectacular event plans into reality and its unmatched expertise in organizing magnificent event.Our portfolio is the strongest evidence of our capability,dedication and competence in event management.We at Spring Of Rhythm not only sign business deal but also build strong bonds with our clients.We believe that business is all about customer satisfaction and not just a mean of earning money.We as a team pride ourselves with our levels of commitment,dedication and attention to detail,taking great satisfaction with the end result.Spring Of Rhythm has distinguished itself by bringing innotive ideas in event management industry like wedding ceremony,celebrity management,musical nights,ghazal nights,classical nights,corporate events,new year bash,birthday bash,decoration and catering etc
— Aman Jha, All About Yoga: Details of yoga with 10 types Of yoga forms and fifteen yoga asana with pictures
Every Day is Canada Day for new Canadians
— Maureen Haddock
Culture is what happens when the managers are not around.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
Culture is the organization’s fingerprint.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
If you put fences around people, you get sheep.
— William L. McKnight
Culture is the heartbeat of the organization and our society.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
To make a perfect Business Follow Up Email Check out some useful sample of emails made by Reply up it will definitely improve your sales or business.
— Reply Up
Procrastination at the start and sometimes during the project meant there wasn’t time to execute the plans well enough.
— Graham Speechley
Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more completely it succeeds in eliminating from business love, hatred, and all purely personal, irrational, and emotional elements which escape calculation.
— Max Weber
Boomers were the original Millennials.
— Ted Rubin
Copy cats may seem good at what they are doing, but they will never find a spot at the top.
— Cyc Jouzy
LESS fabrication, MORE facilitation
— Ted Rubin
Unnecessary spending makes another man rich and another man poor.
— Cyc Jouzy
Are you afraid from Burglar and want a tight security at low cost,Centex Security in Miami perfect for the business security which is wireless and easy to handle.
— Centex Security
When I was bartering to gain clients, I was self-sabotaging my business. I wasn’t making money, and the promised “exchange of advertising” wasn’t helping to grow my business.
— Kim Beasley, The Creative Introverted Entrepreneur: Learn To Be SEEN So That You Can SELL Online To Your Target Customers
If you are in the business of revenge, then you better dig two graves.
— Chinese Proverb
Take advantage of losing your job by making it an opportunity to find a better one..
— Hassan Choughari
When I stopped to take a breath, I noticed I had wings.
— Jodi Livon
Be yourself! Fill yourself up with light and fly!
— Jodi Livon, The Happy Medium: Awakening to Your Natural Intuition
I am love and light in action.
— Jodi Livon
Live what you love and what you love will fill your life.
— Jodi Livon
What are you doing to serve your customers a little more every day?
— John Di Lemme, *57* Must Use Words in Every Piece of Marketing that You Do for Your Business
If you can 'hire tough,' you can 'manage easy.
— Sue Tetzlaff, The Employee Experience: A Capstone Guide to Peak Performance
When we are able to see the choices we make through the eyes of self-acceptance, we are transformed.
— Jodi Livon
Commitment shows up before results do!
— John Di Lemme
ROR: Return on Relationship™, #RonR… simply put the value that is accrued by a person or brand due to nurturing a relationship. ROI is simple $’s and cents. ROR is the value (both perceived and real) that will accrue over time through connection, trust, loyalty, recommendations and sharing.
— Ted Rubin
When you're confident in what you bring to the table, you don't have to chase and beg anyone to sit down and eat.
— Stephan Labossiere
20 percent customers give you 80 percent of the business? Are you focusing on them?
— Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy
I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.
— Albert Camus, The Fall
A business without sales is just ego masturb*tion.
— Dan Meredith, How To Be F*cking Awesome
Your business is your life.And your life is your business.
— Hrishikesh Agnihotri
It is clear that both at home and abroad producers have been unwilling to trust their fortunes entirely to the unrestricted play of competition. Both in world and domestic markets businessmen have sought security by substituting collective controls for the free play of market forces.
— George W. Stocking, Cartels in Action: Case Studies in International Business Diplomacy
Great customer service is not just one part of your business, it should be in every part of your business!
— Tom Kenemore, Fans On Fire: How to Skyrocket Your Leads, Sales, and Reputation with The Most Trusted Form of Marketing
Besides, that MBA is a Masters of Business Administration, not a Masters of Business Leadership.
— Dave Anderson, Becoming a Leader of Character: 6 Habits That Make or Break a Leader at Work and at Home
Any family without an entrepreneur has a limited hope.
— Auliq Ice
either on a competitive or a cartel basis.
— George W. Stocking, Cartels in Action: Case Studies in International Business Diplomacy
Entrepreneurship is like a weighing machine whose load content should tilt towards passion to solve a pressing need, more than passion to make money.
— Auliq-Ice
Entrepreneurship is all about making life easier for humanity, while money becomes a bye-product.
— Auliq-Ice
The term cartel was virtually unknown to the American language a generation ago. Like most borrowed words, when first taken over it meant different things to different persons. Time was required to crystallize its meaning. In this country it now commonly refers to international marketing arrangements. In a companion study we have defined such a cartel as an arrangement among, or on behalf of, producers engaged in the same line of business designed to limit or eliminate competition among them.
— George W. Stocking, Cartels in Action: Case Studies in International Business Diplomacy
Quotes = SuccessMusic = SuccessFailure = SuccessLoyalty = SuccessBooks = SuccessMistakes = Success...These are the lessons for today, try to put them in your bag and start using them one by one!
— Deyth Banger
When the business people get done with the arts, all that’s left will be entertainment.
— Daniel R. Thorne
The more ethical and honest your business is, the harder it is to make money. And you have to understand this going in: when you start a business, being good and moral and ethical and, you know, legal… means you will make less money than someone who simply does not give a fuck.If you’re wondering where all this is going, the point to all this is to hammer into your skull the blunt reality that you and your new business are indistinguishable from the worst examples of the industry, and nobody cares.
— Caliban Darklock
Business is war and your past clients and customer’s great online reviews are your elite soldiers in battle.
— Tom Kenemore, Fans On Fire: How to Skyrocket Your Leads, Sales, and Reputation with The Most Trusted Form of Marketing
If you are in a competitive industry, great online reviews are not just nice to have, they are a requirement!
— Tom Kenemore, Fans On Fire: How to Skyrocket Your Leads, Sales, and Reputation with The Most Trusted Form of Marketing
If the sale of flesh could be made as easily as the sale of spiritual exemption, the prescience of a dedicated businessman might be well preserved.
— Michelle Franklin, The Leaf Flute - A Marridon Novella
The vain man buys to impress, but the REAL man buys to fulfil a need.
— Auliq-Ice
It is easy to launch a project if you have no clue about the cost and schedule.
— Gerry Geek, Ice Breakers for Project Managers: Jokes, Quotes, and Brainteasers
Social responsibility is a fundamentally subversive doctrine" in a free society, and have said that in such a society, "there is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.
— Milton Friedman, The Ethics Of Competition And Other Essays
You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.' [Paul Graham]
— Alexis Ohanian, Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed
Trust your instincts, know what you want, and believe in your ability to achieve it. Rules and conventions are important for schools, businesses, and society in general, but you should never follow them blindly.
— Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
Time is your most valuable currency!
— John Di Lemme
Convenience will put you out of business!
— John Di Lemme, *57* Must Use Words in Every Piece of Marketing that You Do for Your Business
In 2008, when almost every other investor got crushed, and even the Wall Street 'experts' were down by almost half, I was up 17 percent - beating the S&P Average by over 50 percent.Reminiscences of a Stock Market Flea
— James J. Houts
The point of school, after all, isn’t to do homework. The point of school is to learn. It was a mistake to assume that teachers—or anyone else, for that matter—automatically knew what was best for me.Rules are there to help us—to create a culture, to streamline productivity, and to promote success. But we’re not computers that need to be programmed. If you approach your bosses or colleagues with respect, and your goals are in alignment, there’s often room for a little customization and flexibility. And on the other side, those in positions of power shouldn’t force people to adhere to a plan for the sake of protocol. The solution, always, is to listen carefully—to your own needs and to those of the people around you.
— Biz Stone
Be a Flea, not a Bull or a Bear. Don't delay, retire anyway. Trading is NOT a four letter word. Buy carefully, sell aggressively. Don't mark duds while drinking. When your plan fails, change it. Don't be slow, don't be greedy. Don't be obtuse with a machine gun pointed at you. There's still time to build wealth and retire well.The Stock Market Flea: Lessons from the Front
— James J. Houts, The Stock Market Flea: Lessons from the Front
Present your product and service simple and direct. Eliminate senseless small talk that takes up valuable time.
— Timi Nadela
Be honest. Be truthful. If you tell lies, you lose your credibility.
— Timi Nadela
Proper research into organization of interest is a step to getting there.
— Chidi Prosper Agbugba
Because the bulk of a platform's value is created by its community of users, the platform business must shift its focus from internal activities to external activities. In the process the firm inverts-it turns inside out, with functions from marketing to information technology to operations to strategy all increasingly centering on people, resources, and functions that exist outside the business, complementing or replacing those that exists inside a traditional business.
— Geoffrey G. Parker, Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy--and How to Make Them Work for You
Self-awareness is the key to find our uniqueness. The latter increases our chance to succeed in our personal, career, and business lives...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
In 2008, when almost every other investor got crushed, and even the Wall Street "experts" were down by almost half, I was up 17 percent - beating the S&P Average by over 50 percent.Reminiscences of a Stock Market Flea
— James J. Houts
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land
— Harriet Martineau
Your work style is describe You
— MA Chohan
Fear in the absence of knowledge breeds irrationality.We should always seek knowledge, even in the face of fear.
— Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
True efficiency is taking some time to be fully first thing in the morning. Rushing isn’t always efficient.
— Waylon H. Lewis
If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people… Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavors that you could never otherwise pursue
— Jeff Bezos
Although some organizations today may survive and prosper because they have intu- itive geniuses managing them, most are not so fortunate. Most organizations can benefit from strategic management, which is based upon integrating intuition and analysis in decision making. Choosing an intuitive or analytic approach to decision making is not an either–or proposition. Managers at all levels in an organization inject their intuition and judgment into strategic-management analyses. Analytical thinking and intuitive thinking complement each other. Operating from the I’ve-already-made-up-my-mind-don’t-bother-me-with-the-facts mode is not management by intuition; it is management by ignorance. Drucker says, “I believe in intuition only if you discipline it. ‘Hunch’ artists, who make a diagnosis but don’t check it out with the facts, are the ones in medicine who kill people, and in management kill businesses.
— Fred R. David, Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases, Instructor Review Copy
With honest and straightforward business principles, close and careful attention to details, and the ability to take advantage of favourable opportunities and circumstances, there is a scope for success.
— Jamsetji Tata
Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks.
— G.R. Gopinath
I don't know how to do it today, but I will know how to do it tomorrow and do it.
— Shu Hattori, The McKinsey Edge: Success Principles from the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
If you are going to complain, blame, or criticize, then do something about it... Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
— Shu Hattori, The McKinsey Edge: Success Principles from the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
Show your vulnerability, but have faith. You will succeed. Growth is not glamorous.
— Shu Hattori, The McKinsey Edge: Success Principles from the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
one of the most important things you can do for yourself is have a strong sense of your own greatness... because many things and people will misjudge you and count you at what they thing you are or can achieve. Their limits are not true... yours are
— Marsha Wright, The Secret Collaborative Economy: More Clients, More Exposure, More Profit, Faster!
People are bad at looking at seeds and guessing what size tree will grow out of them. The way you’ll get big ideas in, say, health care is by starting out with small ideas. If you try to do some big thing, you don’t just need it to be big; you need it to be good. And it’s really hard to do big and good simultaneously. So, what that means is you can either do something small and good and then gradually make it bigger, or do something big and bad and gradually make it better. And you know what? Empirically, starting big just does not work. That’s the way the government does things. They do something really big that’s really bad, and they think, Well, we’ll make it better, and then it never gets better”.Building Fast Companies for Growth, Inc. September 2013
— Paul Graham
In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder in business, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.
— Jamsetji Tata
We do not claim to be more unselfish, more generous or more philanthropic than other people. But we think we started on sound and straightforward business principles, considering the interests of the shareholders our own, and the health and welfare of the employees, the sure foundation of our success.
— Jamsetji Tata
Let's face it. We live in a command-based system, where we have been programmed since our earliest school years to become followers, not individuals. We have been conditioned to embrace teams, the herd, the masses, popular opinion -- and to reject what is different, eccentric or stands alone. We are so programmed that all it takes for any business or authority to condition our minds to follow or buy something is to simply repeat a statement more than three or four times until we repeat it ourselves and follow it as truth or the best trendiest thing. This is called "programming" -- the frequent repetition of words to condition us how to think, what to like or dislike, and who to follow.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Learn the rules and learn the game, before you start breaking the rules and changing the game. Your education, experience and understanding of what was and what is, will give you the best foundation to change what will be.
— Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The “Who, What, When, Where, Why & How” of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music
In business as well as in everything else, you're in business to spread love.  Your agency should spread love,  your screenplay should spread love, your store should spread love, your life should spread love.  The key to a successful career is realizing that it s not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self and your most basic self is love.
— Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
CRM is rather boring in itself. It's the fortunes you can build using CRM that makes it so interesting.
— Michael McCafferty
If you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over
— Gordon Attard
Putting in place the most ambitious and daring objective isn't enough, it should be backed with an intricate plan and executed like hell, this is what i call the superiority framework, from proximity the dots might seem random and chaotic but from a strategist view these dots are so beautifully interconnected forming greatness in an absolute form
— Ahmed Elkadi
CHOAM is business and business follows profits.
— Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
Nothing tells you more about an organization than the way it makes decisions.
— Dennis Bakke
could act like a CEO or I could really be a CEO, which means doing whatever I need to do (including asking obvious questions) to make the best decision for my company. No matter where you are in life, you’ll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you.
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Take the wrong route sometimes and make fool out of yourself. Laugh at your mess ups because it will all become a funny story one day.
— Mahyar Mottahed
A true democratic society is supposed to serve its people, not big businesses. The welfare of its citizens, not corporate pockets. But when you have corporations buying the seats of our political leaders, who do you think they will serve?
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you’re the best person for the job
— Chris     Murray, Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
A person's right to a job is as specious as his boss' right to success in business. There is no right to a minimum wage, just as there is no right to success in self-employment.
— Rex Curry
Everybody sells something to somebody every day, whether it’s a product, a service or just a case of making sure that they get their own way.
— Chris     Murray
Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve
— Chris     Murray, Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
Executing the solution means gaining customer commitment and delivering on your promises
— Chris     Murray, Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
Earn the Right - Ensure you put this chunk of Sales Tetris in place first and all the other pieces just take their own positions naturally.
— Chris     Murray, Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
The commitment gap is the massive distance between “yes” and “maybe
— Chris     Murray, Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
If customers don’t trust you to help them at the beginning of the sales process, they certainly won’t trust you with their money at the end of it.
— Chris     Murray, Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs
— Chris     Murray, Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
The ability to close sales effectively has never been confined to the last few moments of the conversation.
— Chris     Murray, Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
Why do customers (and that includes you and me) find it so difficult to recall more than a couple of occasions when they felt that they were treated exceptionally by the salespeople who dealt with them?
— Chris     Murray, Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
Social media is about connecting with people, not collecting people.
— Karen   Clark, Social Media for Direct Selling Representatives: Ethical and Effective Online Marketing
Customers get exactly what they need, while you hit your sales targets and become incredibly successful – fair deal.
— Chris     Murray, Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
Ty Inc.'s 1989 catalog had this on the back cover: "Warning: If anyone dare copy our creative designs and patents without written permission, ownership of your eternal soul passes to us and we have the right to negotiate the sale of said soul. Furthermore, our attorneys will see to it that life on Earth, as you know it, is not worth living.
— Zac Bissonnette, The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
I'd like to run away from you, but if you didn't come and find me.... I would die.
— Anna Fraser
Great selling involves helping people to make great buying decisions.
— Chris     Murray, Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
In many instances, the words “sell” and “influence” are completely interchangeable.
— Chris     Murray, Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
I love the word 'dream.'For some, it’s something that’s completely unattainable, yet for others, completely attainable.Choose your definition wisely.
— Colleen Ferrary Bader
When plan doesn't work do not change the goal, Change the plan ! #beingemployee
— Stella Morey
When you begin to relinquish your ego, you will no longer feel compelled to prove to people how busy you are in an attempt to validate your sense of worth.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity.
— Paul Arden, It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
Be wary of the man who does not offer water, charges too much for water, asks for too much water, and the one who makes water his business.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.
— Alejandro Cremades, The Art of Startup Fundraising
Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. People in business say that toner cartridges are in short supply, that they have updated the next shipment of these cartridges, and that they will finalize their recommendations at the next meeting of the board. They are speaking a language familiar and dear to them. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; executives walk among toner cartridges, caparisoned like knights. We should tolerate them--every person of spirit wants to ride a white horse.
— William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style
Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American CEO can produce a new CEO.
— Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
Though you may be paid minimum wage, to the customers you are the face of the entire company.
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Be persistent, be persistent, they say. But please, do not mistake being a pest for being persistent.
— Nike Thaddeus
When taking on a leadership role in business remember it's about relationships. If your people (aka employees) are taken care of then they will respect you and return the favor.
— Michael A. Contés II
The higher you rise in the business ladder, the smaller your balls become.
— Santosh Kalwar
You actually, waste time when you cry over wasted time. Time should be a guide that helps you focus. All you should worry about is ageing with unfinished business.
— DaVyshka
It doesn't matter how many people you have on social networking sites. What matters is how you benefited them and how you benefited from them
— Nash
Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price.
— Agatha Christie
Our customers are not our competitors. We compete for them, not with them.
— T Jay Taylor
Some of these tasks are interesting. Tinkering with machines is fun. Marketing decisions, especially how to manage the Web site and AdWords, are an intellectual challenge. Some are unpleasant but lead to a satisfying conclusion, like nagging customers for past-due payments. (They've always paid me, eventually.) Some are frightening, I can change an employee's life with my decisions about pay rates and whether to hire and fire. And many are just aggravating: the taxes, insurance purchases, legal issues, and some of the employee interactions. Each layer of government, each enormous and indifferent private bureaucracy, requires its own special knowledge: the right form filled out the correct way and filed at the right time. Learning how to complete on type of tax filing tells you nothing whatsoever about how to fill out the next form. One health insurer presents a quote one way, another in an entirely different way, and both require extensive study to determine the best choice. It's like stepping back to an old, old world where every tree, every rock, every stream is inhabited by its own resident spirit, and each needs to be mollified in the correct manner. Or very bad things happen. I didn't start my company to do any of this. I had no idea, when I decided that I would make furniture in exchange for money, that this was in my future. And the strange universe of administration expands as the company grows.
— Paul Downs
In somebody’s mind, some upper-level suit that was looking at the bottom line and all those red numbers, it made more sense to unload five employees who collectively made a hundred thousand a year and ruin five lives, than it did to get rid of one job-redundant, mid-level manager earning the same amount.
— Erica Larsen, Bad Boy Nice Guy: A New Adult Romance Novel
In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. "We need to flip that model,” Ressler told me. “No matter what kind of business you’re in, it’s time to throw away the tardy slips, time clocks and outdated, industrial-age thinking.
— Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you're too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
People speak broken Swahili on purpose. Business people for instance will speak Sheng – a mixture of Swahili and English – because that’s what people want to hear. And what is the government doing? They speak broken Swahili most of the time. Swahili is getting lost and I am really sorry for the future generations.
— Enock Maregesi
The focus of the entrepreneur must always be on exchanging products or services for money, and anything that distracts from that like actually running a business, should be avoided where possible.
— John Winterson Richards
In Networking never underestimate anyones connection potential. Sometimes even a small office helper can connect you to the Business Owner !
— Sampath K. Iyengar
Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.
— Warren Buffett
What’s the best home-based business opportunity in the world today? Without a doubt, it’s network marketing. Like it or hate it, network marketing has created more millionaires than any other industry in history. There’s just one problem — it can be hard if you’re not used to it!
— Kevin J.  Donaldson
During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business
— Mark Twain
Not every single broke and unemployed person needs a job
—  some need customers.
Some business coaches may disagree with me, but I wholeheartedly teach my community to start businesses around what you love doing.
— Kevin J.  Donaldson
Your brand is a combination of a customer’s experiences with your business at every touchpoint. Each memory, thought, impression, website visit, story, sales letter, social media post, event, phone call, and transaction contribute toyour company’s brand reputation.
— Elaine Fogel, Beyond Your LOGO: 7 Brand Ideas That Matter Most for Small Business Success
Whilst I could not think of any man whose spirit was, or needed to be, more enlarged than the spirit of a genuine merchant. What a thing it is to see the order which prevails throughout his business! By means of this he can at any time survey the general whole, without needing to perplex himself in the details. What advantages does he derive from the system of book-keeping by double entry? It is among the finest inventions of the human mind; every prudent master of a house should introduce it into his economy.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Even when the economy isn’t doing so well, people will still need good products and services. When you build a business around products and services that people will always need, then find innovative ways to let it run on autopilot while you grow it, then that’s a sure recipe for wealth.
— Kevin J.  Donaldson
Too much profit is being made at the expense of unsuspecting patients.
— Melissa Cady, Paindemic: A Practical and Holistic Look at Chronic Pain, the Medical System, and the antiPAIN Lifestyle
What is rational in the practice of thoughtful medicine is impractical for the system.
— Melissa Cady, Paindemic: A Practical and Holistic Look at Chronic Pain, the Medical System, and the antiPAIN Lifestyle
Answers are free, mistakes are costly.
— Danielle   Tate, Elegant Entrepreneur: The Female Founders Guide to Starting & Growing Your First Company
Yet in reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being accepted into the French nobility four centuries ago, though at least an aristocratic age was franker, and therefore kinder, about the odds. It did not relentlessly play up the possibilities open to all those with a take on the future of the potato crisp, and so, in turn, did not cruelly equate an ordinary life with a failed one.Our era is perverse in passing off an exception as a rule.
— Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Before you start any business, you need to get your target audience down pat. Who do you want to serve? Who will your product/service benefit the most? Don’t worry about the rest.
— Kevin J.  Donaldson
Going into business without a business plan is like going on a mountain trek without a map or GPS support – you’ll eventually get lost and starve!
— Kevin J.  Donaldson
The bottom-line is, that nothing should affect your bottom-line.
— Mamur Mustapha
Your busyness cannot stop God's business to save his children.
— tirumala
Like the weather or bonds between lovers, transformations can never be predicted. All energy transmutes one day or another, in one way or another. Either in its form or composition, or in its position or disposition.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
— John Dewey
Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
A business plan is like a war plan, when you competitors know about it, it's no longer of any use
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows
— Itzik Amiel
Successful business is always almost dishonest
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business.
— Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
A man who wants to imitate the life of a woman will invariably do some mischief
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Conquer your customer as you would a woman
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
The pitch we used to convince companies to spend $50 million bucks for one of our planes was that it wasn't simply a means of transportation; oh no - it was 'a productivity tool'. It allowed an executive to make good use of his travel time and a relaxed and refreshed executive could seal the deal much more effectively than his travel-worn counterpart. Yeah, right. You can always justify any obscene luxury on the grounds of productivity...
— Joseph Finder, Power Play
When truth and honesty is successfully intertwined into the business world of a nation, the result is a boost in commerce.
— Sunday Adelaja
Every startup is a SME but every SME is not a startup.
— Ookbee founder
You wouldn’t get in a car and drive around aimlessly, hoping to eventually arrive at a pleasant destination. So why would you even consider doing this for your business?
— Koos Kruger, Business Exit Companion: An Owner's Guide to Exit Planning and Unlocking Value
The smaller fry disappears while the bigger one still rules in the business world and also in other areas like politics.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
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— A. Zampolli
Business is about creating VALUE for people. And earning money is the OUTCOME of creating value for people!
— Kevin J.  Donaldson, 10 Secrets of the New Rich: How To Join The World's New Breed Of Millionaires
Even the richest person, provided the riches comes from mutually beneficial exchange, does not need to give anything "back" to the community, because this person took nothing out of the community. Indeed, the reverse is true: Enterprises give to the community. Their owners take huge risks, and front the money for investment, precisely with the goal of serving others. Their riches are signs that they have achieved their aims.
— Jeffrey Tucker
You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying.
— Samer Chidiac
The world of business is becoming one of the great cathedrals of spirit. Businesses are becoming places in which meaning can be created, in which mutuality begins to happen. Business is the force in the world that is fulfilling every major value of the great spiritual traditions: intimacy, trust, a shared vision, cooperation, collaboration, friendship, and ultimately love. After all, what is love at its core? It is the movement of evolution to higher and higher levels of mutuality, recognition, union and embrace.
— Marc Gafni
The thing about Web companies is there's always something severely fucked-up. There is always an outage, always lost data, always compromised customer information, always a server going offline. You work with these clugey internal tools and patch together work-arounds to compensate for the half-assed, rushed development, and after a while the fucked-upness of the whole enterprise becomes the status quo. VPs insecure that they're not as in touch as they need to be with conditions on the ground insert themselves into projects midstream and you get serious scope creep. You present to the world this image that you're a buttoned-down tech company with everything in its right place but once you're on the other side of the firewall it looks like triage time in an emergency room, 24/7. Systems break down, laptops go into the blue screen of death, developers miskey a line of code, error messages appear that mean absolutely nothing. The instantaneousness with which you can fix stuff creates a culture that works by the seat of its pants. I swear the whole Web was built by virtue of developers fixing one mistake after another, constantly forced to compensate for the bugginess of their code.
— Ryan Boudinot, Blueprints of the Afterlife
I had a vision and made it happen.- Christina Lari, Olivia & Owen
— Holly Hurd, Venture Mom: From Idea to Income in Just 12 Weeks
If we ask the right questions, we can change the world with the right answers.
— Ogwo David Emenike
The efforts of a leader will be emulated. Depending on the quality of appointed leadership, this can be medicine or poison to a living business.
— Steve Maraboli
In regards to life goals, you need to think about where you are now, and plot out where you want to be a year from now, two years from now, and then five years from now.
— Auliq Ice
You can't do it better without teamwork.
— Ogwo David Emenike
The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales… not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth.
— Steve Maraboli
The greatest way to ensure your company’s failure is to appoint leaders who see a divide between themselves and the team
—  who are more fixated on their elevated role than on the act of leading.
Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing.
— David Brier
So it comes down to scarcity, one product or service having qualities you won’t find everywhere or ideally, anywhere. It’s the job of every brand to seek that out as their standard, their stamp.
— David Brier
Look at every ‘revolutionary’ brand or category killer, it had an app, or a feature, or a functionality, or a user experience nobody else at that point could offer. I refer to this as ‘the Killer App’ principle.
— David Brier, The Lucky Brand
What you hold in your consciousness tends to manifest—the inner game runs the outer game.
— William A.  Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
If you want to break through to higher levels of performance, you must allow yourself to be restructured.
— William A.  Adams, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
What is my business in this? Oh yea, it is my business. It is not just my business, it is my calling.
— Sunday Adelaja
The opposite of value is a commodity item with little or no perceived value — which means people are not seeking it out and when they do, it’s merely one of the many choices (so very likely the cheapest offering will get the sale).
— David Brier
People aren't happy because they're successful. They're successful because they're happy.
— Jeff Sutherland
I don’t believe it can be taught as if it were a recipe. There aren’t ingredients and techniques that will guarantee success. Parameters exist that, if followed, will ensure a business can continue, but you cannot clearly define our business success and then bottle it as you would a perfume. It’s not that simple: to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running; and, if you have a good team round you and more than your fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can’t guarantee it just by following someone else’s formula. Business is a fluid, changing substance.
— Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Launching a brand is not for those with thin skin. It takes courage, intelligence and foresight.
— David Brier, The Lucky Brand
Businesses grow when they are well loved!
— Blaze Lazarony
Every great brand goes back to a courageous individual who dared to say 'NO' to the status quo.
— David Brier, The Lucky Brand
We know there are thousands of ways to solve any branding problem a company faces, yet the only valuable solutions are the effective ones. Doing something ineffective in half the time–or “more efficiently” or “more economically”–isn’t progress, but is instead bad business. Very bad business.
— David Brier, The Lucky Brand
Social media isn’t a brand strategy. Social media is a channel. While it’s important for a brand to develop something to say, it’s more important to create something that will be heard.
— David Brier
History is filled with inferior brands outselling superior ones thanks to better branding. Only superior branding has the power to overcome and reverse this (and superior products and services deserve superior branding).
— David Brier, The Lucky Brand
Customers have a first moment when they discover your brand. If you were to look at it today with a fresh pair of eyes, in fact only through a pair of fresh customer eyes and witness your brand for the very first time, what would you see? What impression would make? Or fail to make? Would your brand blend in? Would it stand out? Would it be memorable, or the leading cause of amnesia amongst shoppers everywhere? Facing the truth of this and fixing it as needed will determine whether your brand thrives or merely stumbles along.
— David Brier, Great Type & Lettering Designs
Why is it there’s no aisle in a grocery or department in a store or menu on a website for “average stuff” or “beige products”? FACT: People never got passionate about mediocre and average. While consumers and clients can find “best deals” and “natural foods” and “artisan goods,” one doesn’t find an aisle or a website menu tab offering “average stuff” without excelling in something (which might explain that while vanilla is necessary for the ice cream sundae, it’s the hot fudge we all crave and talk about).
— David Brier, The Lucky Brand
If your brand is a cliché, your brand is losing sales and growth. Why? If your brand is using clichés to promote itself, you’re promoting your “category,” not your unique, individual brand. Painful? Yes. Solvable? Absolutely.
— David Brier, The Lucky Brand
Brand growth and dominance is created by having the highest brand value, not the lowest price tag.
— David Brier, The Lucky Brand
One can always sell something by offering the lowest price. But this does not create loyalty to your brand. Never did and never will. It only creates “loyalty” to that price point. As soon as your guest or visitor is offered a better price, he or she will jump ship, leaving you like a scorned lover in the middle of the night.
— David Brier, The Lucky Brand
Brands are either built on reruns or coming attractions. The future has no road map while the past does. Creating a brand that blazes new trails can sometimes be bumpy but will also allow you to be the first to discover something new, something meaningful and something that makes others ask, “Why didn’t we think of that?” Be very scared of “old tricks” and build a spirit of innovation. It’s the “old tricks” that have the highest risk, not doing something bold.
— David Brier