Business Quotes

What is rational in the practice of thoughtful medicine is impractical for the system.

~ Melissa Cady

Answers are free, mistakes are costly.

~ Danielle Tate

Yet in reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being accepted into the French nobility four centuries ago, though at least an aristocratic age was franker, and therefore kinder, about the odds. It did not relentlessly play up the possibilities open to all those with a take on the future of the potato crisp, and so, in turn, did not cruelly equate an ordinary life with a failed one.Our era is perverse in passing off an exception as a rule.

~ Alain De Botton

Before you start any business, you need to get your target audience down pat. Who do you want to serve? Who will your product/service benefit the most? Don’t worry about the rest.

~ Kevin J. Donaldson

The bottom-line is, that nothing should affect your bottom-line.

~ Mamur Mustapha

Your busyness cannot stop God's business to save his children.

~ Tirumala

Like the weather or bonds between lovers, transformations can never be predicted. All energy transmutes one day or another, in one way or another. Either in its form or composition, or in its position or disposition.

~ Suzy Kassem

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

~ John Dewey

Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A business plan is like a war plan, when you competitors know about it, it's no longer of any use

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows

~ Itzik Amiel

Successful business is always almost dishonest

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business.

~ Joe Abercrombie

A man who wants to imitate the life of a woman will invariably do some mischief

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Conquer your customer as you would a woman

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The pitch we used to convince companies to spend $50 million bucks for one of our planes was that it wasn't simply a means of transportation; oh no - it was 'a productivity tool'. It allowed an executive to make good use of his travel time and a relaxed and refreshed executive could seal the deal much more effectively than his travel-worn counterpart. Yeah, right. You can always justify any obscene luxury on the grounds of productivity...

~ Joseph Finder

When truth and honesty is successfully intertwined into the business world of a nation, the result is a boost in commerce.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Every startup is a SME but every SME is not a startup.

~ Ookbee Founder

You wouldn’t get in a car and drive around aimlessly, hoping to eventually arrive at a pleasant destination. So why would you even consider doing this for your business?

~ Koos Kruger

The smaller fry disappears while the bigger one still rules in the business world and also in other areas like politics.

~ Girdhar Joshi

Business is about creating VALUE for people. And earning money is the OUTCOME of creating value for people!

~ Kevin J. Donaldson

Even the richest person, provided the riches comes from mutually beneficial exchange, does not need to give anything back to the community, because this person took nothing out of the community. Indeed, the reverse is true: Enterprises give to the community. Their owners take huge risks, and front the money for investment, precisely with the goal of serving others. Their riches are signs that they have achieved their aims.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying.

~ Samer Chidiac

The thing about Web companies is there's always something severely fucked-up. There is always an outage, always lost data, always compromised customer information, always a server going offline. You work with these clugey internal tools and patch together work-arounds to compensate for the half-assed, rushed development, and after a while the fucked-upness of the whole enterprise becomes the status quo. VPs insecure that they're not as in touch as they need to be with conditions on the ground insert themselves into projects midstream and you get serious scope creep. You present to the world this image that you're a buttoned-down tech company with everything in its right place but once you're on the other side of the firewall it looks like triage time in an emergency room, 24/7. Systems break down, laptops go into the blue screen of death, developers miskey a line of code, error messages appear that mean absolutely nothing. The instantaneousness with which you can fix stuff creates a culture that works by the seat of its pants. I swear the whole Web was built by virtue of developers fixing one mistake after another, constantly forced to compensate for the bugginess of their code.

~ Ryan Boudinot

I had a vision and made it happen.- Christina Lari, Olivia & Owen

~ Holly Hurd

If we ask the right questions, we can change the world with the right answers.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

The efforts of a leader will be emulated. Depending on the quality of appointed leadership, this can be medicine or poison to a living business.

~ Steve Maraboli

In regards to life goals, you need to think about where you are now, and plot out where you want to be a year from now, two years from now, and then five years from now.

~ Auliq Ice

You can't do it better without teamwork.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales… not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth.

~ Steve Maraboli

The greatest way to ensure your company’s failure is to appoint leaders who see a divide between themselves and the team, who are more fixated on their elevated role than on the act of leading.

~ Steve Maraboli

Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing.

~ David Brier

So it comes down to scarcity, one product or service having qualities you won’t find everywhere or ideally, anywhere. It’s the job of every brand to seek that out as their standard, their stamp.

~ David Brier

Look at every ‘revolutionary’ brand or category killer, it had an app, or a feature, or a functionality, or a user experience nobody else at that point could offer. I refer to this as ‘the Killer App’ principle.

~ David Brier

What you hold in your consciousness tends to manifest—the inner game runs the outer game.

~ William A. Adams

If you want to break through to higher levels of performance, you must allow yourself to be restructured.

~ William A. Adams

What is my business in this? Oh yea, it is my business. It is not just my business, it is my calling.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The opposite of value is a commodity item with little or no perceived value — which means people are not seeking it out and when they do, it’s merely one of the many choices (so very likely the cheapest offering will get the sale).

~ David Brier

People aren't happy because they're successful. They're successful because they're happy.

~ Jeff Sutherland