Quotes About Business

There are two ways to grow: by stealing from the competition or by growing the market. The first path is slow and painful and difficult. The second path is where the magic of fast growth kicks in.

Low price is the last refuge of a marketer who has run out of generous ideas.

Given the choice between building a thriving, profitable business with a niche and a really boring product and putting your life savings into an intensely competitive business where you're likely to fail but the product is cool, the experienced bootstrapper will pick the former every time. If you find an industry filled with wannabe entrepreneurs with a dollar and a dream, run away and look for something else!

In other words, they believe it's wiser to focus more on increasing sales to a smaller percentage of your existing customers than to find new ones.

durability of customer relationships. Invest money in customer retention, because it's a small fraction of the cost of customer acquisition.

The entrepreneur is comfortable raising money, hiring and firing, renting more office space than she needs right now. The entrepreneur must dream big and persuade others to share her dream. The freelancer, on the other hand, can focus on craft. She can most easily build her business by doing great work, consistently.

It's hard for me to imagine how a $50 million marketing campaign is ever appropriate for any business to launch an ideavirus. If you need to interrupt that many people, you're doing something wrong.

The book publishing business is also run by people with this affliction. They love their industry, their product, their systems, and the joy it brings them. New technologies and business systems undermine that vision, and publishers often dismiss them because of simple nostalgia. The same thing happened to Kodak and to the big accounting

If you tell your competition your tactics, they'll steal them and it will cost you. But if you tell them your strategy, it won't matter. Because they don't have the guts or the persistence to turn your strategy into their strategy.

Atunci când g?sim empatia de a spune: "Îmi pare r?u, aceast? afacere nu e pentru mine. Iat? num?rul de telefon al concurentului meu", g?sim È™i libertatea de a face o treab? care conteaz?.

Customer development is the act of gaining traction with customers, of finding a fit between what you make and what they want. This traction is worth far more than fancy technology or expensive marketing.

Seth runs TheMarketingSeminar.com, which is the intensive workshop that this book is based on.

It's hard to imagine Tim Cook blurbing a Samsung phone. That's because Apple seeks to corner the market, not to spread an idea or create a positive change. They're in the business of raising their stock price, and everything else is merely a tactic.

I'd divide the modern business plan into five sections: Truth Assertions Alternatives People Money

It's easier to make products and services for the customers you seek to serve than it is to find customers for your products and services.

And too often, that purpose is simply a backward way of saying, "I'd like to sell more of what I've already decided to sell.

Most entrepreneurs don't think about money too much when they decide to start a business. When's the last time you asked someone at a cocktail party what he does, and he responded, "Every month, I generate more cash than I spend"?

One American newspaper wholesaler told The New York Times that the Indians "basically replaced the old Jewish and Italian merchants and they've filled a tremendous void because nobody will put in the fourteen and sixteen-hour days that they do quite willingly and that you have to put in when running a newsstand.

In the United States the rise of an extreme and highly ideological Right was driven by an unrelenting assault on liberals, portraying them as both "hating America" and hostile to business

trial. That's bad for business in the PD's office. The supervisors are paid for disposing of

The contemporary motto for the mullet-wearer is business in front, party in the back but the Indian mullet warrior motto was I don't want my hair to get in my eyes as I'm kicking your ass.

Why do you need to see him? (Remi) Wolf business, and the last time I sniffed, which I'm trying real hard not to do 'cause the stench of you assholes is rough on my heightened sense of smell, you're a bear. Grab his hide and send it over. (Fury)

In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.

As you know, I spent 30 years of my life in the private sector.