Business Quotes
Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision
If you take the approach of “earning” your customers’ business every day and treating them well, they’re less likely to try someone else.
Cater to your customers’ lifestyles. It will create instant rapport and a lasting sense of “I belong here.
The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of it one of the fundamental backbones of ecocapitalism, as I think of it now.
All the nut eaters and food faddists I have ever known, died early after a long period of senile decay - Winston Churchill
He who gives back at first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs success, has never been, is not, and never will be, a hero in love, war or business. - Frederick Tudor
That's the positive aspect of trade I suppose. The world gets stirred up together. That's about as much as I have to say for it.
Understanding who isn’t your ideal customer sometimes helps you better clarify who is.
Creating a plan to bring in more business in a way that does not ultimately support yourannual goals is fighting against yourself.
If your plan is not working, pivot. If it is working, do more of it!
The time to market yourself is all of the time.
To set yourself up for success, you need to be real about what you can commit to consistently.
Time cannot be managed. It’s going to pass you by, whether or not you are trying to manage it.
Time management is reactive, whereas time strategy is proactive.
Batching or “bucketing” your tasks is ripping the Band- Aid off whenever you have to deal with ongoing activities.
Bucketing your time or your tasks keeps you in the zone.
Raise your hand if your calendar ever makes you feel the need for an oxygen mask!
I call dealing with your calendar the “calendar boogie” because you seriously have to dance around to pull it alltogether.
I’m telling you that responsibly applying time strategy and proactively leveraging your calendar is the dumb ol’ secret to seeing your dreams come true.
Your culture is the birthplace of your brand.
Only you can create bold goals that attract success for your business as you use your God-given gifts to serve others.
Creating an ideal customer profile helps you understand who are you talking to through your marketing, and it helps you carry that message and vibe through to your customerexperience.
Before you can decide on your brand fonts, colors or imagery, let alone your messaging, you need to know who you're trying to attract first.
The thing is, If you try to market to everyone, then you successfully market to no one.
If I had a dollar for every time someone asked, “What do you think about this logo?” I’d be rich.
Your ideal customer should be attracted to the brand that rests on the fabulous culture youcreated, but they don’t have to share your personal interests or have the same lifestyle you do.
An entrepreneur is someone who is the king of his business one day and its slave the next.
Nearly all rich an powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.
For some, I realize, business is the all-out pursuit of profits, period, full stop, but for us business was no more about making money than being human is about making blood.
Businesses need to be more alert. Sometimes the problem is not the customer service, it is the product.
Do not confuse location with direction. Location is where you are, direction is where you are going.
Scale yourself. Go beyond what you can do and what you know. Look at your content machine and make it work nonstop, seamlessly, and at scale with or without you.
We are faced with the incredible challenge of creating high quality content for a crowd of skimmers. The faster you understand this, the more effective your content tactics will become.
Social Media= Business. Period.
Being authentic, and being perceived as such by your audience, relies on your ability to ensure that every decision you make when it comes to your business is rooted in being true to yourself.
Despite the modern equipment we sell, it's old money that funds it, and old money doesn't always have a modern brain attached to it.
Posting dramatic charts or funny pictures is good and giving people smart reasons to believe what they already think is great.
There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral.
The trick is learning to frame your new ideas as tweaks of old ideas, to mix a little fluency with a little disfluency—to make your audience see the familiarity behind the surprise.
Some consumers buy products not because they are ‘better” in any way, but simply because they are popular. What they’re buying is not just a product, but also a piece of popularity itself.
A business owner who is not willing to invest in their business is a business owner who shouldn't be in business.
Personally, I believe in tools that close the gap between professionals and beginners, understanding that — push comes to shove — this is a world of beginners.
If you find even the smallest way to make people smile, they’ll remember you more for that smile than for all your other fancy business-model stuff