Business Quotes

Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion.

It is not about whether you call yourself a leader or not. It is about what you have to show to people as a leader. Leadership is contagious, you carry it and share it.

The simple the process is, the smarter the system becomes.

IF PEOPLE ARE NOT LAUGHING AT YOUR GOALS, YOUR GOALS ARER TOO SMALL

We are only constrained by the boundaries of our imagination

Today's opponents can be your allies tomorrow. And today's allies can be tomorrow's opponents.

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity

The best way to predict your future is to create it

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

There’s not a chance we’ll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.

Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let them guide you. Constraints drive innovation and force focus. Instead of trying to remove them, use them to your advantage.

Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god...What fools these mortals be.

The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage, " "honestly, " or "marketplace.

Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.**(emphasis by author)[2002] p.25f

No secrecy, no business.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake

People have within their own hands the tools to fashion their own destiny.

An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.

We designed Google to be the kind of place where the kind of people we wanted to work here would work for free.- Urs Hölzle

Social media allows us to behave in ways that we are hardwired for in the first place - as humans. We can get frank recommendations from other humans instead of from faceless companies.

What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett."My guess is a new acronym, " he whispered. "Departmental Unification Management Business." He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. "D.U.M.B.

The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.

Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a "how" answer to what is really a "why" question.

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there’s no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he’s lying, and you’re being taken.

I may not be the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick the smartest people to do business with and size them up very fast.

In the business world, there is no gray. Either you are black, or you are white-washed.

I don, t just want success for my self, I want my success to benefit others .Osman Gulum

We’re all somebody’s prospect

Make sure your business is creating a service experience so good that it demands loyalty.

Customers are human and humans can view situations in unexpected ways.

Many companies expect loyal customers without providing loyal service. This has been the visionary failure of countless corporations.

When you put yourself in the customer’s shoes and begin your dialog from there, an immediate connection develops that stems beyond basic commerce and encourages loyalty.

As a business leader you have to ask yourself, “Am I creating a consumer environment that is conducive to loyalty?” If the answer is no, FIX IT!

We're interested in the mass-merchandising of anything. If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them too

A beverage of leisure is a serious business, ” Shane Bowermaster was known to declare. “There can be no product of pleasure without the inverse on the end of the producer.

Negotation is a point of interection of common interest.

Haji Ali taught me to...slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

Business is not about negotations, its about mutually finding a point of balance where both parties find their objectives meeting.

I am yet to meet the idiot at whose door success arrived as a direct result of his refusal to invest in the enterprise that made him rich.

The most radical and far-reaching solutions often need rethinking of processes and deep questioning of the status quo-and these are hard.

Thank your customer for complaining and mean it. Most will never bother to complain. They'll just walk away.

Your customers are responsible for your company’s reason for existing.

Delegating your accountabilities is abdication

Even your most loyal customers always have a choice about where to take their business.

After each customer interaction, notice if you gave them a “happy to see you” kind of experience.