Offer your customers a long-term relationship, then do everything possible to build and maintain it. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
It's a gut feeling. And when two people have the same gut feeling, you have a brand. — Robert Brunner Copy Share Image
Country banks are more flexible in their lending policies than their city brethren are. — Bert Lance Copy Share Image
Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself. — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
People ask, 'Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?' I think it's a combination of both. — Robert Herjavec Copy Share Image
“Is it really that surprising when sales reps you don't train, coach or support properly aren't successful?” — Rob Liano Copy Share Image
Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
Whether you have incredible products like at Apple or a great service business, it all comes down to fundamental trust and relationship-building… — Brandon Webb Copy Share Image
Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely… — Boman Irani Copy Share Image
As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns.… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, despite the fact that Wikileaks had… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Being an entrepreneur does, of course, give you greater freedom than someone who is tied to a fixed work schedule, but you'd… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try… — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
While Wall Street firms typically underwrite offerings in teams, the lead underwriter, or manager, of the offering has primary responsibility for selling… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Businesses are going to innovate in how they bring prices down so people can shop the way they want. — John Gerzema Copy Share Image
"Now you can trade the S&P 500 Index in real time" was the slogan in the newspapers for the first ETF. What… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
“We're all in the customer service business. Our goal must be to exceed our customers' expectations everyday.” — Dave Thomas Copy Share Image
“To have your brand ingrained in the hearts of clients & customers requires empathy – humanize your brand.” — Bernard Kelvin Clive Copy Share Image
Profit or loss is not guaranteed. That depends on the consumer and depends on the product. That's a risk that business people… — Mukesh Ambani Copy Share Image
The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Then stand in the world market, learn to quote someone else was selling and you will not know that you have sold — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
You can never be an entrepreneur if you're afraid to lose money. It's like being a pilot who is afraid of bad… — Peter de Savary Copy Share Image
We may buy a little bit of a stock, to get our feet wet and get a feeling for it. — Walter Schloss Copy Share Image
Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
A good company delivers excellent products and services, and a great company does all that and strives to make the world a… — Bill Ford Copy Share Image
In order of importance to me are: 1) the long term trend, 2) the current chart pattern, and 3)picking a good spot… — Ed Seykota Copy Share Image
Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products. — Jay Samit Copy Share Image
“It was mindspace and shelfspace that prompted Kraft to pay $18.9 billion for Cadbury in January 2010. Kraft” — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
The stock knows that I bought it, and it decides, 'Mohnish is done. Now let's go down.' — Mohnish Pabrai Copy Share Image
Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
You cannot mean everything to all segments of the markets. You cannot have a brand straddling too many meanings. — Anand Mahindra Copy Share Image
Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
An entrepreneur is not a person who starts a company, but he is the person who actually solves a problem. — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
“My armpits are not only rank, but they’re ranked number one in customer satisfaction. Try them for free or your money back.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
