Inspirational Business Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Be the kind of person who catches the shit before it hits the fan, not the one who scrapes it off afterwards.”
– Jonas Eriksson

“If you start a chocolate company, you can’t compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company.”
– Tamim Iqbal

“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”
– Richard Branson

“My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn’t matter if you’re 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That’s why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.”
– Steven Gary Blank

“My first inclination is to make my business all about me, but my second instinct is to make my business all about everyone else, because everyone else is where all the money is at.
– Jarod Kintz

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
– Phil Jackson

“A CEO’s performance is as good as the performance of his middle managers”
– Med Jones

“We are always waiting for the perfect brief from the perfect client. It almost never happens [...] Whatever is on your desk right now, that’s the one. Make it the best you possibly can.”
– Paul Arden

“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise”
– Ted Turner

“Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.”
– Paul Orfalea

“Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, ‘’does’’ have entrepreneurs. Thousands and thousands of them. Especially in the field of technology. And these entrepreneurs—”we” entrepreneurs—have set up all these outsourcing companies that virtually run America now.”
– Aravind Adiga

“Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.”
– Richard Branson

“Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.”
– William George Jordan

“People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work.”
– Marilyn Suttle

“…[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small, discrete parts and assign each person to do only one of the many parts. In so doing, companies run the risk of taking away employees’ sense of the big picture, purpose, and sense of completion.”
– Dan Ariely

“Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that’s what he wants. Mostly it’s women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.”
– John Steinbeck

“Every successful business (1) creates or provides something of value that (2) other people want or need (3) at a price they’re willing to pay, in a way that (4) satisfies the purchaser’s needs and expectations and (5) provides the business sufficient revenue to make it worthwhile for the owners to continue operation.”
– Josh Kaufman

“In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind–but he must get there first.”
– John Steinbeck

“The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,’ he was fond of saying. ‘People want to know immediately what they’re dealing with. And when they think about you, you’ve got to stand out in their minds–like one of those characters in a novel.”
– Candace Bushnell

“Get in touch with your passion and put it to work at work.”
– Marilyn Suttle

“The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.”
– Brian Tracy

“Talent can be hired, money has to be earned. ”
– Vishnu

“Do an evening review at the end of the day to reflect on what went well, and what you’d do differently next time.”
– Marilyn Suttle

“Mom has the Touch. She knows what flowers go with what occasions, what hors d’oeuvres work with what people. She believes passionately in the power of food to heal, restore, and stimulate relationships, and she has built a following of loyal customers who really hope she’s right. If she’s wrong, says Sonia, no one wants to know. (Thwonk)”
– Joan Bauer

“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake”
– Meg Whitman

“When you’re busy, avoid taking the quickest action. Instead make the extra effort to truly serve the customer.”
– Marilyn Suttle

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