Top 1200 Business Strategy Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

I do think the strategy of Trump, and now the Republican Party, is to eviscerate the idea of objective truth.

There's no training for the business, no credentials necessary to enter... It's all about entrepreneurs, innate street intelligence, and instincts. It's a business which encourages people with dreams. That's the essence of Hollywood.

The business aspect and the social aspect of FEED go hand in hand. The more we can strengthen our business, the more we are able to give. And the more we can focus on giving back, the more customers will want to buy our products, thus strengthening our business.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

When I was 18, and when I entered my family business, I soon realised that it wasn't as easy as I thought. I had to deal with people of my father's generation. Building trust was key to doing business.

I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.

My stepfather was a producer. I'd always wanted to be in show business. And so when he came into my life and he told my brothers and myself, he said, look, if you want to be in this business, you're all going to have to start at the bottom.

After serving as a U.S. Navy SEAL, I started a business. In four years, it failed incredibly, but I learned a lot about business, raising equity, and choosing partners.

Find a business mentor. Connect with others who are successful in other lines of business. Bounce ideas off them, pick their brains. Maybe they can re-write a proposal for you.

The ability to have influence and create change and drive the strategy of an organization is really what excites me.

I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.

Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.

Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.

Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

I was working in a family business-the fur business - and I hated it. I was reading the New York Times want ads, and I saw a photographer's assistant job in Vogue. Things went from there.

Maybe I thought the movie business would be a little bit different than the rock n' roll business, but, in fact, they're the same animal, just packaged differently.

Our strategy with DSiWare is the same as with WiiWare in that we want to provide new experiences every week.

Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.

I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.

Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations.

Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

Werdum is good, is a smart fighter. He knows how to set up a beautiful strategy.

Obama sought a strategy of accommodating our enemies, even if they weren't so willing to accommodate us.

The film business seems to attract rules more than any other business. I don't know why it does. I think it's because there's so much money at stake.

Screaming 'you're wrong' at the electorate is not a good strategy for a party seeking to win back its trust.

Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.

We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.

Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.

I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.

It's a business driven by curiosity. If you don't want to go out and learn about the world and see the place, it's the wrong business. But if you do... I've had an unbelievable front row seat.

Protest is best used when it's part of a strategy that involves escalating tactics that build pressure on targets.

The Home Office is a vast department where business as usual means that something is going wrong and, given the nature of the business, the disasters rarely lack a high profile.

But when it comes to F1 I am a huge Lewis [Hamilton] fan because he is a super promoter of the sport. From a pure business aspect - sorry Nico if I have to say this - you are not so good for my business.

I came up with this idea to create an app. And the premise of the app is this: every problem in the bar business goes away when there's sales. You increase revenue and you solve every problem. It's when the revenues are low that [the business] doesn't work. So I wanted to put together an app that focused on top-line revenue, guest experience, and business management in a more organized way.

I was a stickler. I wanted to learn every nuance to my craft. And that's not just talking about in the ring. It's all facets. Production, marketing, PR. I've always looked at this business as a business.

I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead.

Catering to populist anger with extremist proposals that are certain to fail is not a viable strategy for political success.

We see a missile here, a bomb there - looks good on CNN. This is nonsense. This is not a strategy of a serious commander in chief.

Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

There has been a seismic shift in the business world. The great classical business principles still hold true but they need to be fused with cutting edge internet technology.

Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

Buying a share of a good business is better than buying a share of a bad business. One way to do this is to purchase a business that can invest its own money at high rates of return rather than purchasing a business that can only invest at lower ones. In other words, businesses that earn a high return on capital are better than businesses that earn a low return on capital.

Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.

You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two very different ways. They are hidden through withholding, but they are also hidden by being imposed on business, supposedly on business, when really, of course, business can't pay taxes, only people can pay taxes.

I don`t think most people would want me to have a business relationship as a senator where my business partners can reap the benefit of my position and I one day get the share the profits.

I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.

My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered.

Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.

Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired.

You can get so focused on a strategy and making it work that you lose sight of your larger mission.

The U.S. cannot implement a cogent strategy on the world stage if no one is sure whether to take the President seriously.

Having been in the restaurant business, our job in the restaurant business is to be responsible for our customers' happiness. It's the nature of the hospitality business. You need to take care of people. You take care of customers above all others. Customers are your lifeblood.

If you're in the contracting business in this country, you're suspect. If you're in the contracting business in New Jersey, you're indictable. If you're in the contracting business in New Jersey and are Italian, you're convicted.