Business Quotes

Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality.

Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.

In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.

Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.

And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.

It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.

You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.

You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.

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.

The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.

Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.

Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.

I will ask questions that are so wide and open they will feel the need to speak for a week. Then from the information that they give to me, I will mould solutions designed specifically for them.

If you wish to sell to anyone you must earn the right to do so.

But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?

Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?

At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social media is a huge step into bringing peace into our world.

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

to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

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.

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

Although individuals need not be well-rounded, teams should be.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

Social Media begins with a story - your story.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.