Quotes About Business

one reason we like liquidity as a Balance-Sheet goal. It greatly increases the odds that we will have the cash we need to pay bonuses and do a lot of other things.

But what a pity; I have business to transact with Lugo Teehalt!" "It is pointless then to approach me.

In my experience, an effective mission statement basically answers one question: How do we intend to win in this business?

Only satisfied customers can give people job security. Not companies.

You cannot go global on the phone or online

Innovation could not thrive without corporate support and effective commercial strategies.

I had an expression: Never moon the gorilla," Balsillie says. "Microsoft was the gorilla. We cut them by far the widest berth of anyone." Balsillie's strategy for dealing with Microsoft was to undersell RIM's potential. Upon launching BlackBerry, he pitched the device to Microsoft as a pager-like service to promote the software giant's corporate e-mail software, Exchange.

Eventually, Morrison realized that work was the only language the two men shared. When he wasn't talking about RIM, Lazaridis was rhapsodic about technology breakthroughs and quantum physics. Balsillie's enthusiasms were sports, traveling, and business celebrities who were starting to pay attention to BlackBerry's founders.

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Here is an organization of labour who adopts crooked measures to keep away from paying the law wage, and, in the hope of making larger income, reduces the wages of his workpeople. Such a man is altogether unfitted for prosperity, and when he unearths himself bankrupt, each as regards popularity and riches, he blames circumstances, now not knowing that he's the sole creator of his condition.

Let a man start in business without having in his mind a perfectly formed plan to systematically pursue and he will be incoherent in his efforts and will fail in his business operations.

But business is just a vehicle for transforming the ideas in your head into something real, something tangible, that actually improves the lives of others. To create something unique and beautiful and valuable is very hard. It's very special to do. It doesn't happen fast.

The best ideas are when you take two older ideas that have nothing to do with each other, make them have sex with each other, and then build a business around the bastard, ugly child that results. The child who was so ugly nobody else wanted to touch it. Look at Facebook: combine the Internet with stalking. Amazing!

NEGOTIATION IS WORTHLESS. SALES ARE EVERYTHING.

Choose to commoditize your labor or choose yourself to be a creator, an innovator, an artist, an investor, a marketer, and an entrepreneur.

In every business, I've loved meeting my competitors. The reality is there's no such thing as competition. The world is big enough for two people in the same space.

There's no way to know in advance if a business idea is a good one. Google started around 1996 but didn't make a dime of money until around 2001.

entrepreneurs can't use the excuse that "I don't have time, I'm running a business." This is your business.

ZERO sectors in the economy are moving toward more full-time workers.

You're always selling: selling your services, selling your customers' services (!) (this is the real, true secret for keeping customers by the way)

Just being an entrepreneur, without having multiple sources of income, without first taking care of the risks, is suicide. G)

The real way to get wealth is to find a customer and perform a service for that customer. Then repeat.

If a small town doesn't have a laundromat, and if you open one up, you can be pretty confident you'll have customers. If your laundromat is unique in any way, then perhaps you can scale it.

Just being an entrepreneur, without having multiple sources of income, without first taking care of the risks, is suicide.