Business Quotes

Consistency matters. You must learn that giving people a consistent high-quality product is of importance, like building trust across your brand. This build relational wealth - people want to know what they are about to step into and with whom.

~ Nicole Dominique Le Maire

You can’t be happy at work every day. No matter how much you love your job, there are still going to be bad days. And that’s cool—it’s always OK to have a bad day at work.

~ Alexander Kjerulf

Life is not about receiving. It's about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience.

~ Peter E

If some musicians put half as much effort in to the business side as they do their outer look and appearances, they could be twice as far.

~ Loren Weisman

Most companies that win don't have a unique strategy; quite the opposite, they are doing what everyone else is doing but have figured out how to execute better.

~ Robert G. Thompson

The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.

~ Robert G. Thompson

If you give customers a chance, they’ll communicate with you in many ways.

~ Robert G. Thompson

Strive for balance in your life. You are the heart and soul of your business so take care of yourself.

~ Joey A. Concepcion

Just finished [Capitalist in North Korea]—fascinating! What an experience. Wow. —Justin Rohrlich, Emmy Award Winner, Head Writer, Minyanville's World In Review

~ Felix Abt

Customers are speaking to you implicitly via their behavior, captured in the footprints they leave behind in your systems.

~ Robert G. Thompson

Realize that employees and the customers both have to be engaged, at the same time, to move your business forward for sustainable success.

~ Robert G. Thompson

The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.

~ Masaru Ibuka

A decision is only as strong as the belief standing behind it

~ Isaiah Hankel

Research on the human brain has shown it is predisposed to think in the terms of a story.36 This predisposition is continuously reinforced and strengthened throughout the life of your brain. Imaging studies have shown only a small, quarter-sized region of your brain lights up when someone tells you a series of facts. However, when someone tells you a story laced with those facts, or those facts in action, your entire brain lights up. Not only can you program your mind with a story — you can program someone else’s mind.

~ Isaiah Hankel

It’s not about the content we are creating but how much content our customers are creating for us.

~ Roger James Hamilton

Life is all about exploring yourself, discovering yourself and grooming yourself, then you will surely stop negative thinking.

~ Ehabib

Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory on one theme. But if you want to do original work you must start young, and young people are limited by the chair system. Even if students cannot become assistant professors at an early age they should be encouraged to do original work....Industry is more likely to put its research effort into its daily business. It is very difficult for it to become involved in pure chemistry. There is a need to encourage long-range research, even if we don't know its goal and if its application is unknown.

~ Kenichi Fukui

The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

~ Stephen R. Covey

The U.S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves paid for nanoseconds; the have-nots had no idea that nanoseconds had value. The haves enjoyed a perfect view of the market; the have-nots never saw the market at all.

~ Michael Lewis

Its easier to start a global business than a local one, make your business one where you can work from anywhere in the world

~ Roger James Hamilton

In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus

~ Isaiah Hankel

Competition in business is a blessing, for without it, we wouldn't be motivated to improve.

~ Nabil N. Jamal

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

~ Mark Cuban

Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish to God I could buy black hair products from black people for once. How we going to make it in this country if we don't make our own business?

~ Zadie Smith

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared.

~ Andrew Harvey

A good entrepreneur is a good teacher.

~ Edward D. Hess

Every day is a training day and every event is a training event.

~ James Pritchert

Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.

~ Orrin Woodward

It's not what you do, but what you appear to do.

~ James Pritchert

No Matter What, When, Where or Who … He is Forever My Daddy ~ MJ

~ Michael S. Joyner

I started the business with a simple question: How can we make the process of buying a computer better? The answer was: Sell computers directly to the end customer. Eliminate the reseller's markup and pass those savings on to the customer.

~ Michael Dell

Sometimes it's better not to ask-or to listen-when tell you something can't be done. I didn't ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it.

~ Michael Dell

Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.

~ Alain De Botton

Building a business is like creating a picture & striving to be picture perfect in everything you do.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

How you gather, manage and use intel in life determines whether you win or lose. That's the # 1 rule for the mavericks in business.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

As soon as we open our eyes in the morning, what we want most is to matter, to live a life and to do a work that has meaning. We have evolved to feel this way. Man's first thought was 'I AM'.

~ Bernadette Jiwa

Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power argues that if corporations have 'person hood' under the law, then it makes sense to question what kind of people they are. He posits that corporations behave with all the classical signs of sociopathy: they are inherently amoral, they elevate their own interests above all others', and they disregard moral and sometimes legal limits on their behavior in pursuit of their own advancement. Organizations of this type would thrive under the leadership of people who have the same traits: sociopaths.

~ M.e. Thomas

Policy makers and business leaders take note: money matters. But often the best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table—so that people can focus on the work rather than on the cash.

~ Daniel H. Pink

Everyone isn't going to embrace your value, but that doesn't mean you need to go and change your price.

~ Stephan Labossiere

Do what you love but do what it takes to do what you love.

~ Todd Stocker