Business Quotes
When preparing a presentation, it’s never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you’re focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.
We should just stop calling these things presentations altogether. Everyone gets hung up on that word. Wouldn’t it be easier to just call them conversations? That’s really what they are.
A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.
Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.
Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people.
It is important to focus on present work. It is more important to align your present work with future outlook and desires.
Sure, there are little victories here and there that may seem like lucky breaks, but luck is simply when preparation meets opportunity.
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
If you do build a great experience, clients tell each other about that.World of mouth is very powerful.
How you react when your back is against the wall will determine if you see what's actually over the wall.
If every day at work feels like a Friday, then you are doing what you were meant to do.
There just seems to be too much violence everywhere, even the news can't help break now and then on TV
This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life
Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot truly serve them
There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. That's true of all types of consumer electronics.
Data may disappoint, but it never lies.
I tend to think my eye's vision is still 20/20, because they mind their own business.
Writing and achieving your goals is not failure, not having a goal to write in the first place is the start of failure.
No matter how hard we try to separate, and if eventually we finally separate, we are just fooling around thinking we had parted, yet our hearts dwells where we cowardly believed we had left.
School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.
He didn’t like the idea of leaving unfinished business behind. He had wanted definite answers about the heart attacks to be able to turn the page on who or what caused so many of his brothers to die.
Everything practical and applicable is impractictal and inapplicable to the inactive participant.
On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.
Long term sustainability requires relentless endurance and gratitude in all your efforts.
Staying motivated in business is really less about what you hear and think, and more about what you do and achieve.
It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said.
Good decision making is the result of years of experience making and learning from one's choices - good and bad.
Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice.
A moral dilemma can be large or small, important or inconsequential, urgent or secondary. One thing is certain: moral dilemmas are ever present.
Because we are a globally connected village, we need to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have a powerful ripple effect, and that ripple is global.
While mistakes may be local, in today’s connected world embarrassment is global
A project goal like a joke. If you have to explain it, it is not good / fun.
If you want to get a meaningful result: create something very complex, and then simplify it.
Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing
