Quotes About Business

I saw a lot of friends and acquaintances turn their bands which were previously something that they did out of passion into a shot at a small business," Steve Albini told the venerable zine Punk Planet. "In the course of doing it, they ended up hating their bands in a way that I used to hate my job, because it became something they had to do: it was an obligation.

an angel sent on this business…could have done nothing

A VISIT TO THE STOCK EXCHANGE

Knowing he had done wrong, prepared to make amends, settle his business. Determined to return to Brokeland, open the doors wide to the angel of retail death, and run the place into the ground all by himself, if that was what it took-but to fail calmly, to fail with style, to fail above all with that true dignity, unknown to his wife or his partner, which lay in never tripping out, never showing offense or hurt to those who had offended or hurt you.

Jack said he'd make some calls to the bank and Global Underwriters.

The thing to remember is that you don't want clients from the cheap seats. You want the ones sitting on the fifty-yard line.

Downtown L.A. was as quiet as Forest Lawn on most weekends, and he didn't expect to find the Happy Hocker open.

government, a bureaucracy, a business. When there are no rules then corruption sets in like rust.

In the past, pure scientists took a snobbish view of business. They saw the pursuit of money as intellectually uninteresting, suited only to shopkeepers. And

Clearly, Valdez was an apologist for the industrialists and polluters, the big American companies that dominated Costa Rica and other Latin American countries. Not surprising to find such a person here, since the CIA had controlled Costa Rica for decades. This wasn't a country; it was a subsidiary of American business interests. And American businesses did not give a damn for the environment.

Your business is not hardware. Your business is communications. Your business is access to information.

The exploitations he had found so profitable he now attacked with the money he had made from them. He

Of course the auto companies discarded it-it's a good idea. Don't want any good ideas coming out of a big company. Might lead to a good product!

What is standing in the way of my customer getting what he wants from my business?

the business that was supposed to free him from the limitations of working for somebody else actually enslaves him. Suddenly the job he knew how to do so well becomes one job he knows how to do plus a dozen others he doesn't know how to do at all.

It's up to you to dictate your business's rate of growth as best you can by understanding the key processes that need to be performed, the key objectives that need to be achieved, the key position you are aiming your business to hold in the marketplace.

The Franchise Prototype is also the place where all assumptions are put to the test to see how well they work before becoming operational in the business.

Mature company is founded on a broader perspective, an entrepreneurial perspective, a more intelligent point of view. About building a business that works not because of you but without you.

So when you ask, "Is this business an Opportunity Worth Pursuing?" the only way to tell is to determine how many selling opportunities you have (your customers' demographics) and how successfully you can satisfy the emotional or perceived needs lurking there (your customers' psychographics).

It's time for me to challenge my imagination and to begin the process of shaping an entirely new life. And the best way to do that anywhere in this whole wide opportunity-filled world is to create an exciting new business.

seen from the appropriate perspective, the entire business process by which your company does what it does is a marketing process.

Thus, the Entrepreneurial Model does not start with a picture of the business to be created but of the customer for whom the business is to be created. It understands that without a clear picture of that customer, no business can succeed.

a business that 'gets small again' is a business reduced to the level of its owner's personal resistance to change, to its owner's Comfort Zone

The Model Will Provide Consistent Value to Your Customers, Employees, Suppliers, and Lenders, Beyond What They Expect