Quotes About Business

It's no wonder so much business writing winds up dry, wordy, and dripping with nonsense. People are just continuing the bad habits they picked up in school. It's not just academic writing, either. There are a lot of skills that are useful in academia that aren't worth much outside of it.

La esencia de tu negocio debería pivotar sobre todo aquello que no cambia. Sobre cosas que la gente quiere hoy y seguirá pidiendo dentro de diez años.

Why don't we just call plans what they really are: guesses. Start referring to your business plans as business guesses, your financial plans as financial guesses, and your strategic plans as strategic guesses. Now you can stop worrying about them as much. They just aren't worth the stress.

Instead of trying to outspend, outsell, or outsponsor competitors, try to out-teach them. Teaching probably isn't something your competitors are even thinking about. Most businesses focus on selling or servicing, but teaching never even occurs to them.

The menus at failing restaurants offer too many dishes. The owners think making every dish under the sun will broaden the appeal of the restaurant. Instead it makes for crappy food (and creates inventory headaches).

Don't be insecure about aiming to be a small business. Anyone who runs a business that's sustainable and profitable, whether it's big or small, should be proud.

Accounting is a department. Marketing isn't.

In business, too many people obsess over tools, software tricks, scaling issues, fancy office space, lavish furniture, and other frivolities instead of what really matters. And what really matters is how to actually get customers and make money.

Scaring away new customers is worse than losing old customers.

A business without a path to profit isn't a business, it's a hobby.

Start a business, not a startup Ah

No te has fijado que mientras que las empresas pequeñas quieren ser mayores, las grandes aspiran a ser más ágiles y flexibles?

Ser una empresa pequeña no tiene que acomplejarte. Cualquiera que dirija un negocio con futuro y que sea rentable, sea grande o pequeño, debería sentirse orgulloso de ello.

Mientras haya clientes a los que les encante lo que hacemos, estamos dispuestos a perder otros. Esta es nuestra raya en la arena.

Look at Craigslist, which demolished the traditional classified-ad business. With just a few dozen employees, the company generates tens of millions in revenue, has one of the most popular sites on the Internet, and disrupted the entire newspaper business.

A lot of companies post help-wanted ads seeking "rock stars" or "ninjas." Lame. Unless your workplace is filled with groupies and throwing stars, these words have nothing to do with your business.

Act like an actual business and you'll have a much better shot at succeeding.

A hot dog stand isn't a hot dog stand without the hot dogs. You can take away the onions, the relish, the mustard, etc. Some people may not like your toppings-less dogs, but you'd still have a hot dog stand. But you simply cannot have a hot dog stand without any hot dogs.

A few bucks isn't going to make up for selling food we can't be proud of.

Todas las empresas tienen clientes. Las empresas con suerte tienen seguidores. Pero las más afortunadas de todas tienen audiencias. Tu audiencia puede convertirse en tu arma secreta.

Henry Ford learned of a process for turning wood scraps from the production of Model T's into charcoal briquets. He built a charcoal plant and Ford Charcoal was created (later renamed Kingsford Charcoal). Today, Kingsford is still the leading manufacturer of charcoal in America.

Today, every business, including yours, is being observed and studied by others who want your revenues.

Lancaster takes us back to where we started, but with a brilliant twist. The test of intelligence is indeed the ability to hold two opposing thoughts in one's mind, appreciate both, and still function. But you don't have to be the be-all and end-all expert in your business at one side or the other. In fact, you can be the one who doesn't excel at either. You can be the one who appreciates both and creates the conditions for both sides to flourish.

in an effort to stop the bleeding, in one fell swoop Schultz closed one thousand underperforming stores, eliminated seven thousand positions, revised the business plan downward to numbers they could hit, and embraced radical change and began making a dizzying series of small bets.