Business Quotes - Page 12

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Sell the benefit, not your company or the product. People buy results, not features.

Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.

You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business and the mind of the nation. He must know both before he can serve either.

Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how he could flick a fly off his horse's ear with his whip-and, a fly alighting just then, he promptly did so. Next he spied a grasshopper beside the road, and he flicked it off with equal dexterity. A little further along the road the passenger noticed an insect on a bush, and nudged the driver to get him. Not on your life, replied the master of the whip. That there insect is a hornet sitting on his nest with an organization behind him. I leave him alone.

Ice cubes likely sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than attractive models in cheesecake poses. The inconspicuous ice cubes often hide the invisible sell - invisible, that is, to the conscious mind.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.