Business Quotes Quotes

An organization's proprietary, internal information is constrained only by an understanding that stake-holders will keep organizational matters within the organization.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

A damaging email forwarded outside the organization is indicative of problems within the organization.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

The written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

A car crash at seventy-five miles an hour results in glass and steel strewn about the roadway. Emergency workers attend to the injured drivers, passengers and bystanders, and remove the wreckage. An electronic communication wreck lacks the visual drama, but imparts damage just as real and just as permanent. A momentary lapse in judgment may prove catastrophic for the writer, their family, coworkers, and stakeholders.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Emails, texts and social media promise the writer the power to be heard…In a society where relinquishing control is viewed as weakness, power is relinquished through every message sent without forethought to the potential consequences.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

In the Darwinian environment of business, one's most provocative words are naturally selected by competitors to be hurled back at them at the most inopportune moments. Do not arm your adversaries.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Neither inherently good nor evil, electronic communication platforms are 100 percent dependent on user input.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Once a message has been sent electronically, the writer has ceded power not just to the recipient, but to whomever the recipient chooses to forward the information. To access electronic communication is to control it. The recipient, not the writer, has power over future dissemination of the writer’s words.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Without the right succession planning put to play in human resources, we build for the future without a future

~ Mmanti Umoh

A business that is not growing after all, is dying.

~ Shawn Casemore

If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.

~ Germany Kent

The key difference between captain and coach? The latter’s opportunities for influence come at moments when play isn't happening

~ Carolyn Taylor

Feet on the ground, head in the clouds. That's how giants walk.

~ Andrea Pomelli

People who succeed in business aren't afraid to hear feedback from their customers -- they actually thrive from it.

~ Adam Kirk Smith

Success is a trophy, a title, something gained, attained or retained. Fulfilment, true happiness, contentment.... bliss is the gift of the self-realised. That is the real prize.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

~ Elite Summaries

A single employee, with one message, can succinctly capture the essence of a corporation the same way an iconic photograph captures a moment. Unfortunately, it is usually the negative massages that are published or used in lawsuits.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

An email cannot be ignored. You may wish an email was not sent to you, because you learned what you did not want to know, but it must be acted upon because there is now a permanent record linking you to that information.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Emails are viewed as an essential historical record of an organization. A record that cannot be expunged must be created with care or not created at all.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

History was once rewritten by the victors. Now we write our own immutable histories with every email, text, and post.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

...with electronic communication, what one writes in a moment, eternity will not erase.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.

~ Kent Alan Robinson

No daydreaming. No music, film, art, creative thinking or business.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Wisdom is the spine of a business, money is its oxygen, and God is its strength and life.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

See money – currency - as the flow of energy and giving that cycles between you, others and me. Now let it flow kindly, fairly and mindfully.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

A family man shouldn't trade his peace for profits, it is the job of a businessman.

~ Amit Kalantri

If you haven’t thought about quitting even once when working on your business, that business is not your real passion.

~ Kim Ha Campbell

The sooner we accept the situation, the sooner we can work on course-correction.

~ Kim Ha Campbell

The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses and people who accept truth soar.

~ Germany Kent

The secret of winning any prize is knowing that your own treasure and potential is equal to it... and worthy of it.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The farther you venture into the forest the more valuable the fruit.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A hunter’s meal is in proportion to his skill.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Building castles in the air is only wise if you build a ladder to reach them.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

God gave you the sea, but you still have to fish for yourself.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You can’t stay in a Blackberry mindset and become an Apple!

~ John Di Lemme

An ounce of wisdom can earn you a ton of gold.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo