Business Quotes

Let's face it. We live in a command-based system, where we have been programmed since our earliest school years to become followers, not individuals. We have been conditioned to embrace teams, the herd, the masses, popular opinion -- and to reject what is different, eccentric or stands alone. We are so programmed that all it takes for any business or authority to condition our minds to follow or buy something is to simply repeat a statement more than three or four times until we repeat it ourselves and follow it as truth or the best trendiest thing. This is called programming -- the frequent repetition of words to condition us how to think, what to like or dislike, and who to follow.

~ Suzy Kassem

Learn the rules and learn the game, before you start breaking the rules and changing the game. Your education, experience and understanding of what was and what is, will give you the best foundation to change what will be.

~ Loren Weisman

In business as well as in everything else, you're in business to spread love.  Your agency should spread love,  your screenplay should spread love, your store should spread love, your life should spread love.  The key to a successful career is realizing that it s not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self and your most basic self is love.

~ Marianne Williamson

CRM is rather boring in itself. It's the fortunes you can build using CRM that makes it so interesting.

~ Michael Mccafferty

If you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over

~ Gordon Attard

Putting in place the most ambitious and daring objective isn't enough, it should be backed with an intricate plan and executed like hell, this is what i call the superiority framework, from proximity the dots might seem random and chaotic but from a strategist view these dots are so beautifully interconnected forming greatness in an absolute form

~ Ahmed Elkadi

CHOAM is business and business follows profits.

~ Frank Herbert

could act like a CEO or I could really be a CEO, which means doing whatever I need to do (including asking obvious questions) to make the best decision for my company. No matter where you are in life, you’ll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you.

~ Sophia Amoruso

Take the wrong route sometimes and make fool out of yourself. Laugh at your mess ups because it will all become a funny story one day.

~ Mahyar Mottahed

A true democratic society is supposed to serve its people, not big businesses. The welfare of its citizens, not corporate pockets. But when you have corporations buying the seats of our political leaders, who do you think they will serve?

~ Suzy Kassem

A person's right to a job is as specious as his boss' right to success in business. There is no right to a minimum wage, just as there is no right to success in self-employment.

~ Rex Curry

Social media is about connecting with people, not collecting people.

~ Karen Clark

Ty Inc.'s 1989 catalog had this on the back cover: Warning: If anyone dare copy our creative designs and patents without written permission, ownership of your eternal soul passes to us and we have the right to negotiate the sale of said soul. Furthermore, our attorneys will see to it that life on Earth, as you know it, is not worth living.

~ Zac Bissonnette

I'd like to run away from you, but if you didn't come and find me.... I would die.

~ Anna Fraser

I love the word 'dream.'For some, it’s something that’s completely unattainable, yet for others, completely attainable.Choose your definition wisely.

~ Colleen Ferrary Bader

When plan doesn't work do not change the goal, Change the plan ! #beingemployee

~ Stella Morey

When you begin to relinquish your ego, you will no longer feel compelled to prove to people how busy you are in an attempt to validate your sense of worth.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity.

~ Paul Arden

Be wary of the man who does not offer water, charges too much for water, asks for too much water, and the one who makes water his business.

~ Suzy Kassem

Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.

~ Alejandro Cremades

Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American CEO can produce a new CEO.

~ Jean Baudrillard

Though you may be paid minimum wage, to the customers you are the face of the entire company.

~ Sophia Amoruso

Be persistent, be persistent, they say. But please, do not mistake being a pest for being persistent.

~ Nike Thaddeus

When taking on a leadership role in business remember it's about relationships. If your people (aka employees) are taken care of then they will respect you and return the favor.

~ Michael A. Contés Ii

The higher you rise in the business ladder, the smaller your balls become.

~ Santosh Kalwar

You actually, waste time when you cry over wasted time. Time should be a guide that helps you focus. All you should worry about is ageing with unfinished business.

~ Davyshka

Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price.

~ Agatha Christie

Our customers are not our competitors. We compete for them, not with them.

~ T Jay Taylor

In somebody’s mind, some upper-level suit that was looking at the bottom line and all those red numbers, it made more sense to unload five employees who collectively made a hundred thousand a year and ruin five lives, than it did to get rid of one job-redundant, mid-level manager earning the same amount.

~ Erica Larsen

In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. We need to flip that model,” Ressler told me. “No matter what kind of business you’re in, it’s time to throw away the tardy slips, time clocks and outdated, industrial-age thinking.

~ Daniel H. Pink

In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you're too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

~ Mitch Albom

People speak broken Swahili on purpose. Business people for instance will speak Sheng – a mixture of Swahili and English – because that’s what people want to hear. And what is the government doing? They speak broken Swahili most of the time. Swahili is getting lost and I am really sorry for the future generations.

~ Enock Maregesi

The focus of the entrepreneur must always be on exchanging products or services for money, and anything that distracts from that like actually running a business, should be avoided where possible.

~ John Winterson Richards

What’s the best home-based business opportunity in the world today? Without a doubt, it’s network marketing. Like it or hate it, network marketing has created more millionaires than any other industry in history. There’s just one problem — it can be hard if you’re not used to it!

~ Kevin J. Donaldson

Not every single broke and unemployed person needs a job, some need customers.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some business coaches may disagree with me, but I wholeheartedly teach my community to start businesses around what you love doing.

~ Kevin J. Donaldson

Your brand is a combination of a customer’s experiences with your business at every touchpoint. Each memory, thought, impression, website visit, story, sales letter, social media post, event, phone call, and transaction contribute toyour company’s brand reputation.

~ Elaine Fogel

Whilst I could not think of any man whose spirit was, or needed to be, more enlarged than the spirit of a genuine merchant. What a thing it is to see the order which prevails throughout his business! By means of this he can at any time survey the general whole, without needing to perplex himself in the details. What advantages does he derive from the system of book-keeping by double entry? It is among the finest inventions of the human mind; every prudent master of a house should introduce it into his economy.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Even when the economy isn’t doing so well, people will still need good products and services. When you build a business around products and services that people will always need, then find innovative ways to let it run on autopilot while you grow it, then that’s a sure recipe for wealth.

~ Kevin J. Donaldson

Too much profit is being made at the expense of unsuspecting patients.

~ Melissa Cady