Quotes About Growth

The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenues. Dollars, not dimes.

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

The idea that growth equals profitability is a misconception. If you can't afford the financial or qualitative side of growth, it can just as easily put you out of business.

The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.

When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!

To be successful and grow your business and revenues, you must match the way you market your products with the way your prospects learn about and shop for your products.

Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base

Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Don't wait till you are big before you begin building your brand. Build a brand from scratch alongside your business.

If you want to build a business, build the people.

The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

If your church isn't winning souls, I hope you go out of business