Quotes about small-business

Marketers are focused and sales people are scattered!

What kind of impression are you leaving on people? Activate the ability for your first impression and last impression!

You have to actively listen to your clients and provide the service they’re looking for!

...when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.

Money without meaning is meaningless

Many small businesses are doomed from day one, not from competition or the economy, but from the ignorance of their owners . . . their destiny is already decided because they have no idea how a business should be operated.

There are few experiences in life as painful and brutal as the failure of a small business. For a small business conceived and nurtured by its owner is like a living, breathing child. Its loss is no less traumatic than losing a loved one.

Don’t get me wrong. Government Contracting is difficult, but the help you give the government makes our country strong.

With a strong personal brand, you become the only option in the eyes of your ideal customer.

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.

Why help make big companies bigger when you can get the same thing from the little guy and actually help someone accomplish their dream?

What are you doing to serve your customers a little more every day?

Commitment shows up before results do!

Time is your most valuable currency!

Convenience will put you out of business!

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.

Profit isn’t and shouldn’t be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number — it’s not X dollars or Y customers — it’s a measurement of VALUE.

If leadership is the way forward, vision is its walking stick.

The goal is to build a profitable business, not maintain an expensive hobby that will leave you in the poorhouse.

If you don’t have regular and accurate financial statements, you’re driving your business 100 miles an hour down a one-way street the wrong way, at night, in the fog, without lights.

Your world is created by your words.

Always do what is right with the customer. What you sow now, you will harvest later.

Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.

Many small businesses would rather face an angry barbarian horde than tackle their cash flow statement or price a new product.

If you don’t laugh reading this book I’ll eat my pocket protector. Wait, did I just admit I had a pocket protector?

I see dead Presidents. Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington.

There is no faster way to garner the lasting respect of employees, partners, and consumers than to become the embodiment of an ideal.

What’s the best way to ensure your small business makes a profit? Without a doubt, it’s to keep your overhead costs low, and maximize your sales per marketing dollar.

It's ironic, since they're supposed to be immortal, but vampires are kind of like small businesses: half of them go down within their first year

Every small business has to become a publisher—a publisher of marketing messages and customer resources, and a publisher of stories.

A moral dilemma can be large or small, important or inconsequential, urgent or secondary. One thing is certain: moral dilemmas are ever present.

Managing relationships (with start ups) is more like teaching.

Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big. Ninety percent of all U.S. businesses are family owned or controlled. They are important not only for the food, drink, clothing, and tools they sell us, but also for providing us with intellectual stimulation, social interaction, and connection to our communities. We must have mom & pop stores because we are social animals. We crave to be part of the marketplace.

As an entrepreneur, value creation will always be your first line of defense against business failure.