Business Quotes

Raise your hand if your calendar ever makes you feel the need for an oxygen mask!

~ Amber Hurdle

I call dealing with your calendar the “calendar boogie” because you seriously have to dance around to pull it alltogether.

~ Amber Hurdle

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.

~ Amber Hurdle

With a strong personal brand, you become the only option in the eyes of your ideal customer.

~ Amber Hurdle

Your culture is the birthplace of your brand.

~ Amber Hurdle

Service standards create the standard of expectation that you and all team members follow when interacting with customers.

~ Amber Hurdle

Only you can create bold goals that attract success for your business as you use your God-given gifts to serve others.

~ Amber Hurdle

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.

~ Amber Hurdle

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.

~ Amber Hurdle

The thing is, If you try to market to everyone, then you successfully market to no one.

~ Amber Hurdle

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked, “What do you think about this logo?” I’d be rich.

~ Amber Hurdle

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.

~ Amber Hurdle

An entrepreneur is someone who is the king of his business one day and its slave the next.

~ Ajeet Sharma

As Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines succinctly put it, 'Strategy, overdone; doing stuff, underdone'.

~ Carlo Ancelotti

No matter how big a company is, one has to always look at business basics.

~ Tarun Sharma

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~ Andy Fax

You have no idea how destructive and wasteful your infrastructure is because you don't need to use it the way the workforce does... Drive the forklift, use the database, fill out the form, submit it to HR, and find out how long it takes to get a response. Use your own infrastructure.

~ Bill Jensen

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.

~ Paul Arden

Do not shoot. Please.If you are convinced that you are not a liar, you probably analyze every one, instead of evaluating nothing. Questions are the most effective advertisements.

~ Mark Sherman Smeester

Business does not need planning anymore. It demands out-of-the-box thinking.

~ Haresh Sippy

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.

~ Phil Knight

Whether you're a bride or a birthday boy, your options are much the same. Cake comes in chocolate, yellow, or white. Frosting comes in chocolate or vanilla buttercream, or you can opt for whipped cream. Fillings are either chocolate or vanilla custard, fresh bananas, or strawberries or raspberries in season. For birthday cakes, you can have either flowers or balloons in your choice of colors. For wedding cakes, you can add either fondant or marzipan covering, or either smooth or basket-weave buttercream, in white or ivory, with either pearl-like dots or ribbony swags made of frosting, and fondant faux flowers are extra.

~ Stacey Ballis

Businesses need to be more alert. Sometimes the problem is not the customer service, it is the product.

~ Janna Cachola

If you would not spend time looking at it, do not ship it. One of the best quality assurance rules of thumb is to avoid publishing content that you would not consume. Simple, yet so hard to execute on. My audience deserves my very best. Repeat that to yourself every single day.

~ Laura Busche

Do not confuse location with direction. Location is where you are, direction is where you are going.

~ Laura Busche

CRM doesn't have to be hard, if you plan for how all the pieces will work together BEFORE you start your implementation.

~ Lars Helgeson

Design is your silent storyteller. The visual aesthetic you share with the world tells a story about the values you uphold. When your audience is not ready or willing to listen, a strong visual can capture even the most evasive of minds. Design is not ornamental or secondary: it can propel your stories far beyond the spaces you initially planned for.

~ Laura Busche

I would love to tell you that being a content manager is easy. Straightforward. That you will be able to focus on what is most important and leave everything else aside. But a lot of it is learning to create something compelling in the middle of an absolute whirlwind. Learning to use a huge list of tools that need to be sharpened every day. It is about zooming out when you need big picture thinking, and zooming in when the details need to be ironed out. Managing content, business expectations, and human beings: all at once.

~ Laura Busche

You can practice your grumpy face a million times, you can make a dog surf, you can explode in laughter like Chewbacca mom, and still not “go viral”. You can, however, secure incredibly valuable exposure by spending more time on distribution.

~ Laura Busche

Some creators shy away from systems because they seem overpowering and rigid. However, in reality, strong systems are the only way in which you will ever have time and space for flexibility. This is true for content production, business, and many other areas of life.

~ Laura Busche

Yes, Pilcher was a money-man. They were a type. It was easy to spot them. You could always tell one by that cold fire in his eyes. It was not the hot fire of the man who would never interrupt a dream to calculate the risk, but the cold fire of the man whose mind was geared to the rules of the money game. It was a game that was played with numbers on pieces of paper … common into preferred, preferred into debentures, debentures into dollars, dollars into long-term capital gains. It was the net dollars after tax that were important. They were the numbers on the scoreboard, the runs that crossed the plate, the touchdowns, the goals. Net dollars were the score markers of the money-man’s game. Nothing else mattered. A factory wasn’t a living, breathing organism. It was only a dollar sign and a row of numbers after the Plant & Equipment item on the balance sheet. Their guts didn’t tighten when they heard a big Number Nine bandsaw sink its whining teeth into hard maple. Their nostrils didn’t widen to the rich musk of walnut or the sharply pungent blast from the finishing room. When they saw a production line they looked with blind eyes, not feeling the counterpoint beat of their hearts or the pulsing flow of hot blood or the trigger-set tenseness of lungs that were poised to miss a breath with every lost beat on the line

~ Cameron Hawley

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.

~ Laura Busche

Synergy without strategy results to waste of energy.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

I cannot stress this enough: content creators need to stop comparing their work with that of total strangers. Furthermore, we need to stop seeing ourselves as content consumers and realize that, as producers, we need time and distance from what is already out there in order to create truly innovative work. If you are always exposing your mind to others’ work, when will you gain the strength to create your own? Find a balance between inspiration and creation, and make sure that the first is indeed inspiring. What might start as a journey to gather ideas can quickly become a shortcut to discouragement. Know when to stop.

~ Laura Busche

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.

~ Laura Busche

Social Media= Business. Period.

~ Gary Vaynerchuk

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.

~ Gary Vaynerchuk

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.

~ Taylin Clavelli

Posting dramatic charts or funny pictures is good and giving people smart reasons to believe what they already think is great.

~ Derek Thompson

There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral.

~ Steven D. Levitt