Business Quotes - Page 9

We all have a little entrepreneur inside of us. Wanting to leverage it is what gives us an entrepreneurial spirit and an entrepreneurial mind. Actually doing it makes one an entrepreneur.

It’s not about the amount of time you put in, it is the way you spend the time on the work you need to get done. Saying that you worked ten hours on something that went nowhere is not really anything to brag about.

Best practices are those practices that generally produce the best results or minimize risk.

To set yourself up for success, you need to be real about what you can commit to consistently.

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.]

There was a product which seemed attractive, expensive, portable, beautiful and simple. Everybody talked about its beauty but they bought it for it's simplicity.

All selling should spring from service

If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.

Who better than Wal-Mart, after all, to make a kilowatt of electricity go twice as far, or a gallon of fuel move our trucks move three times the distance?" -Wal-Mart ad

Your mission statement, vision statement, core values, and service standards provide a clear focus for all while keeping your team humble and hungry. It creates that family environment in which your employees enjoy coming to work and dealing with the challenges they face each day.

Our hesitancy to take credit for our accomplishments results in a loss of power, influence, and political capital in the workplace.

The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile.

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.

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared.

Netiquette makes being a 'goody goody' online cool for everyone because we all have to get along. NetworkEtiquette.net

You can build a business, or you can run it, but there’s only two ways it can be run, you can run it straight, or you can run it into the ground.

But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.

It takes healthy, resilient leaders and employees to achieve great results.

Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.

Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.

Trading is injurious to your wealth. If you are smoking you may die in 20-30 years whereas by trading, this may happen the very next day.

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

Every time you see the Wal-Mart smiley face, whistling and knocking down the prices, somewhere there's a factory worker being kicked in the stomach. - Sherrie Ford

In our age, the problems that needs to be solved are growing in number and business of life is overpowering

Advertisement shouldn’t look like information, it should look like a promise.

We have tools at our disposal to use or not to use…it’s a choice.

Carrying someone else’s weight is only going to weigh down on you and add stress, frustration, and pain. Choose who you work with and play with wisely.

Lesson learned - in doing business, do not COMPETE but be COMPETITIVE.

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.

Investing is like Yoga. Body, mind and soul have to be aligned.

You look green, immature. A young boy playing at business, dressing up in the manner in which he believes an actual grown-up would. Your viewpoint of business attire is one of wide-eyed wonder from the nursery door.

Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what’s most important.

Pool is a game of thinking, strategy and accuracy - just like in business.

If you honestly know how you help people, then you should become passionate about sharing it, spread the good news, give everyone a chance to share in the solutions that you can provide.

As a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; “that business minded people can meet there easily!" Your dream must be situated where they can meet people!

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.

Instead of selling to your customers, help them buy.

Stay the course. Don't tell me about the storms just bring the ship home and dock it.

Don't ask creator to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.

Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through ones contribution.

Running a business is a serious thing.

When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.

The future is dependent on the decisions you make today.

The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don’t ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it.

The presence of the Lord destroys a life of struggle. You will struggle until you encounter His presence.

Rule No. 1. Make a great product. Rule No. 2. Don't forget rule No.1.

Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.

Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses

Lovability — the capacity to earn genuine, heartfelt love and loyalty from customers — is the secret ingredient that propels a select few organizations ahead and leads not only to consistent growth and profitability but sustainable happiness for everyone involved.

If there is a gain and loss in business, feedback control is my business.

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.

Never allow your current circumstances dictate your level of happiness! Remember that this too shall pass! Rejoice always!

My phone isn't "smart" because of its features. I make it smart by maximizing the phone's feature-set toward better personal efficiency.

Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing.

Able hands' are more favorable to business than 'adorable hearts'.

She felt the cold blast from the sterile air conditioning on her bare arms and thighs, as she ambled down the center of the shopping complex's ground floor.The scene was a swirl of candy bright lights--the Victoria's Secret fuchsia signboard, signboards which lured one to purchase "confidence," or "sexual appeal," or whatever it was that was being advertised--the fluorescent lights in each store, contrasting with the shiny, black-tiled walls and eye-catching speckled marble tiles on the ground.One could lick the floor--the tiles were spotless, clean like the fake air she was breathing in, like the atoms and cells in her that were decaying in stale neglect.

Today, brands are not the preserve of marketing department. Brands are too important to be left to the marketing department - or any other 'department,' come to that. Organizational ghettoes do not create vibrant world-changing brands.

Transformation rarely happens accidentally.

God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon.