Quotes about business-advice

Don't be in the Money Making Business be in the Business Making Money.

We’re all somebody’s prospect we’re all somebody’s customer.

3 qualities of a good investorKnowledgeCourage &Patience.

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.

A church leadership that cannot provide members with business ideas should stop demanding tithe from them. Plant greatness in the members and they pay greatly Plant zero in them and they pay in negatives!

I made the money I did not let money make me.

Explain the value and justify the cost - People don’t mind paying they just don’t like to overpay.

Make Hard Work Your Best Friend. Hard Work becomes Smart Work Smart Work becomes Easy Work.

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass it’s about learning to dance in the rain. It’s about removing the fear in this area of your life so you can focus on what matters most.

3 qualities of a good management HonestHungry & Smart.

Successful entrepreneurship begins and ends with customer wants and needs, not what you want and need.

Business is a game like baseball or golf or anything else. I enjoy being a student of the game, and reading, and learning, and going to conferences, whether it’s building custom homes or selling or servicing medical equipment. A good entrepreneur can be a good entrepreneur in any industry because if you’re a good student of the game, the rules and the lessons are very much the same. And that’s the fun part about it.

Social Media Strategy isn't rocket science...but it might as well be if you don't know what you're doing.

A common mistaken conclusion made by companies is they think ‘people are cheap’ and want only the best price. That’s only true if you’re only giving them the same dismal choices with no differentiation and thus no value. That is the exact point when consumers start to look at price.

Entrepreneur, if your're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.

You just can’t take for granted just how absolutely predatory the technology space is.

Never underestimate the power of a tweet.

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said.

That's called business, let's shake hands and .... we just made one great deal.

Don't simply dream, create. Don't simply create, ship. Don't simply ship, dream.

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man

Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you’re the best person for the job

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.

Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve

Executing the solution means gaining customer commitment and delivering on your promises

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.

The commitment gap is the massive distance between “yes” and “maybe

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.

Remember, you will always fail in business if you don't try to open your own business.

Catch a customer with emotion and you will have a customer for a day; but, capture a customer with value and you will keep a customer for a lifetime. I truly believe in good, old-fashioned values when it comes to business. That is what timelessness is made of! At the end of the day, the question is, “Do you want to build a good hut for a day or do you want to build a good fortress for a lifetime?” Quality, value, understanding the needs of your clientele— that’s how you build a legacy. Connect w

If you run a business, you know that every moment 365*24*7 people want to F*** with your business.

Instead of selling to your customers, help them buy.

Business is win-win, everything else shades into crime.

It's time to calculate your risks make amends to reduce errors and increase your successes

Manager! Have brain - use it!

Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.

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.

There Are No Secrets of Success, It Is The Result of Preparation, Hard Work And Learning From Failures...

If you don't appreciate your customers, someone else will.

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

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.

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 ro

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!

If you choose the right vendors, your collective and sincere motives should establish both trust & grace on both sides of the relationship.

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.

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.

Exceptional customer service proactively manages your brand and reactively can turn upset customers into raving fans based on how you handled their complaint.

Walk a mile in your customers’ stilettos or loafers. Try to understand where they are in the moment.

I pick my technology like I picked my husband. It has to complement, not complicate, my life.

Service standards create the standard of expectation that you and all team members follow when interacting with customers.

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.

CRM doesn't have to be hard, if you plan for how all the pieces will work together BEFORE you start your implementation.

Rome was not built in a day, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in a day.

Market rewards you as per your perception.

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.

Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs

The ability to close sales effectively has never been confined to the last few moments of the conversation.

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?

Customers get exactly what they need, while you hit your sales targets and become incredibly successful – fair deal.

Great selling involves helping people to make great buying decisions.

In many instances, the words “sell” and “influence” are completely interchangeable.

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.

A business plan is like a war plan, when you competitors know about it, it's no longer of any use

When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators

Successful business is always almost dishonest

A man who wants to imitate the life of a woman will invariably do some mischief

Conquer your customer as you would a woman

Research on the human brain has shown it is predisposed to think in the terms of a story.36 This predisposition is continuously reinforced and strengthened throughout the life of your brain. Imaging studies have shown only a small, quarter-sized region of your brain lights up when someone tells you a series of facts. However, when someone tells you a story laced with those facts, or those facts in action, your entire brain lights up. Not only can you program your mind with a story — you can prog

In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus

The minute you stop caring about your business, is the same minute your business stops caring about you.

Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn’t happen by accident.

For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start.

Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.

It is far better to have 10,000 Facebook friends who are in the same category or aligned with your values or a common inter- est than 100,000 random robot followers from around the world.

Competition is simply an unestablished paternship.

Take your dreams off the ground to the clouds of business where your products will contribute to make the world a better place.

Always consider who you’re learning from. Don’t listen to people who are not experiencing the success you want.

The more businesses you have, the less work you do.

Business after all is a form of warfare; you bring all your available weapons to bear. If you don't you're a fool. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?

Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold.

Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.

Focusing on Earning the Right will have an incredible effect on the success of every single sales call that you will make from this day on.

Think about it: if someone had found a way to manipulate human choice and free will – if someone actually had that kind of power – wouldn’t it be a tad surprising if they then decided to share their secret with the masses in a book for $20? Not to mention how it would be just very slightly unethical.

The Business of Our Firm is Business"-Donald W. Hudspeth from:"The Business of America is Business"-Calvin Coolidge

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life - that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

Until you become so passionate about you and your business no one will. You are your first cheerleader and business promoter.

One of the things I've learned about vision is people will grab it mentally or, have a crab mentality.

Most of us will die twice; Once when we take our last breath, and again when the world forgets your name.

Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.

Innovation takes practice more than talent.

I do not like measuring using soft indicators, like RTs or likes. I prefer the hardcore financial values. The ISO 10668:2010 is an international valuation standard that is very valuable if you are interested in how to measure a brand.

If you're 5-minutes early, you're late "How to always be on time

A Bombshell commands attention for her business with a strong culture, consistent branding, and simple, no-to-low cost marketing.

Find another solution. That’s how you move toward success.

I'd encourage [you] to think big and be delusional when setting goals. Yes, delusional. The biggest mistake that I made with my first business was I didn't think big enough. I limited my success by just focusing on a small geographic area and focusing on hitting small sales targets. Now when I set my goals, I make sure that they are ridiculous. I prefer to work extremely hard and fall short on my ridiculous goals than to achieve mediocre goals.

The most important step in the whole process was to just sit down and do it. My hobby has become a second career. Who knew?-Jamie Beck, Romance Novelist

It is sad but true that many business people have no business being in business.