The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money. — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
“Myth: Bail-in plans would recapitalize big banks. Fact: big banks are far too insolvent to remotely be in a position for such… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance of reaching agreement… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
When you lack cohesion, it becomes difficult to have a clear marketing strategy. — Jim Courier Copy Share Image
From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship. — Jessica Jackley Copy Share Image
The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Most people buy not because they believe, but because the sales person believes. — Ben Feldman Copy Share Image
I don't often know where my ideas come from. Maybe it's the fact that I'm obsessively regimented in my analysis, borderline autistic.… — Jeffrey Gundlach Copy Share Image
It's becoming a day-to-day struggle between bears and bulls. Once oil and yields move to highs, the bears take advantage. Those are… — Larry Wachtel Copy Share Image
People ought to invest in us because they like our company and the way they run it. We still do quarterly earnings… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
Anything in this world goes by brand value.You are a brand.Any action you do, any decision you take,any words you utter adds… — Selvaraj Kuppannan Copy Share Image
“Retailers are more vulnerable than manufacturers to small changes in volume because it adversely affects their asset turnover, which is a much… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
When you put yourself in the customers shoes and begin your dialog from there, an immediate connection develops that stems beyond basic… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy… — Sri Mulyani Indrawati Copy Share Image
We're guessing at our future opportunity cost. Warrenis guessing that he'll have the opportunity to put capital out at high rates of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Although private label shoppers benefit from not having to pay for flashy advertising, private labels miss out on a key brand role:… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
When Berkshire Hathaway laid out three billion dollars for GE today, we didn't spend it, we invested it. When the Federal government… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“EVERYBODY SELLS Nerds might wish that distribution could be ignored and salesmen banished to another planet. All of us want to believe… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“When members of Congress asked about the swaps, Bernanke emphasized that the European banks benefiting from the program also made loans in… — Neil Irwin Copy Share Image
“To become a master of accounting, Arvind Babu, all you need to remember are two fundamental rules,’ said the munim. ‘What are… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Here’s how to know if you have the makeup to be an investor. How would you handle the following situation? Let’s say… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a value company. Price is all that matters. At some price, an asset is a buy, at… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
We can't count on the Fed to inject this level of liquidity that we saw last year. — Robert Pozen Copy Share Image
Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“Businesses fail either because they leave their customers or because their customer leave them !” — Andrew S. Grove Copy Share Image
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.' — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Anything a customer can do for themselves is where service stops and relevance begins. — Jim Blasingame Copy Share Image
The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent, — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“Always do what is right with the customer. What you sow now, you will harvest later.” — Timi Nadela Copy Share Image
At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers'… — Randal Cremer Copy Share Image
“Service Marketing delivers when great communication meets great service design.” — Peter Bowman Copy Share Image
It's our job as marketers and brand professionals to nurture the brand and calm it down when it's angry and to encourage… — Bozoma Saint John Copy Share Image
Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The government can reasonably rely on debt ratings when it forms programs to lend money to buyers of otherwise unattractive debt instruments. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
It's not easy to keep good sleep habits as an entrepreneur, especially at the early stages when there's always a fire to… — Neil Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think. — Anonymous Copy Share Image