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Business Quotes
"Organizational maturity is not just about technical excellence or process efficiency, but also about business effectiveness, agility, innovation intelligence, and people-centricity."
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"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."
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"22% of current business-to-business salespeople will be replaced by search engines within the next five years."
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"The right people have the right mindsets, they are high-positive, high-innovative, high-influential and high-mature."
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"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."
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"If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think."
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"There can be no one best way of organizing a business."
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"The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas."
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"If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods."
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"The idea of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, to really make a difference."
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"Proformas rarely perform; missed projections are more often the norm. Still, we skew them up high, we miss but we try, for proformas which rarely perform."
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"Earn the Right - Ensure you put this chunk of Sales Tetris in place first and all the other pieces just take their own positions naturally."
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"Leadership including directorship is crucial to strengthen the business links and weave them to the differentiated business capabilities."
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"A tech-savvy Board sets a right tone for shaping the culture of innovation."
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"In business, complexity both drives innovation and hinders it."
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"God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world."
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"All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem."
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"There is need to focus on selling an emotional experience instead of a mere product or service - the impression you make on others must be lasting and permanent. These experiences have to be positive and worth remembering. This will increase the chances of repeat business and referrals, guaranteeing customer loyalty. And that is what sustains businesses, brands and careers for generations! The principle remains the same for comedians, actors, footballers, musicians, sales executives or any other area of specialty."
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"Some people are known, they have the platform and presence, but still remain irrelevant. They know you and what you do, but they don't need you or your offering. I see too many people with a platform but without substance, again this is not sustainable. Lack of substance can only relegate your talent or skill towards the league of the mediocre, if at all you become much by superficial branding then you will become the best of the worst. You don't have what it takes but you depend on your ability to sell substandard offerings to the market. It will not last for long, but quickly become irrelevant."
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"In the business world cooperation is essential."
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"Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve."
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"When you have a strong company culture it will shine through your brand and you can authentically say, 'This is what our brand is about."
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"21st Century Managers must change their thinking because they are now in the business of managing Mindsets & thinking, which impacts actions and behaviors."
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"Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork."
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"Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price."
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"I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked."
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"Salespeople need to "Earn the right to become suppliers more than they ever did before."
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"Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing."
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"Audience engagement is critical to the survival of your brand, if you don't engage them you endanger your brand. It's social interaction."
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"Moments are the elements of profit."
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