Small Business Quotes
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.
...when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.
Why help make big companies bigger when you can get the same thing from the little guy and actually help someone accomplish their dream?
Don’t get me wrong. Government Contracting is difficult, but the help you give the government makes our country strong.
Every small business has to become a publisher—a publisher of marketing messages and customer resources, and a publisher of stories.
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
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.
As an entrepreneur, value creation will always be your first line of defense against business failure.
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.
With the explosion of the internet has come numerous avenues for small business owners to share their expertise and position themselves as experts. And expertise is what consumers are looking for.
Successful selling begins with listening. Your job when you are in front of the prospect is to ask questions and then listen to the answers. Take copious notes about what they tell you
Always do what is right with the customer. What you sow now, you will harvest later.
