“Is YOUR brand consistent and congruent with your desired outcomes?” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Your customers are the customers of other brands who occasionally buy you. — Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg Copy Share Image
I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch. — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last. — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
Some of the most important things to look for when checking underneath a funds hood are its fees — Vv Copy Share Image
The stock market has always had its own meter. Sometimes it's ahead of itself, sometimes it's behind itself. A broken watch is… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
“The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
Is it okay for a U.S. bank to pay a U.S. banker but not a U.K. bank to pay a U.S. banker? — Bob Diamond Copy Share Image
If you innovate broadly, focus on the customer experience, and deliver everyday a great product, you will gain share. — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy to outperform over… — John Paulson Copy Share Image
“the essence of guerrilla marketing—the soul and the spirit of guerrilla marketing—is small business: companies with big dreams but tiny budgets.” — Jay Conrad Levinson Copy Share Image
Quality that significantly exceeds the customer's expectations doesn't seem to pay off. This 'delight the customer' stuff isn't rewarding. One has to… — Tahl Raz Copy Share Image
I don't wanna preempt an announcement next week. And there's a lot of technical aspects to it. And if I - say… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their… — Ben Silbermann Copy Share Image
We may well have a competitive advantage buying decent businesses at decent prices. But they won't be fabulous businesses and fabulous prices.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
[Warren Buffett ] met with all sorts of different groups about a lot of different things, but yes, he took the time,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
To achieve long-term success over many financial market and economic cycles, observing a few rules is not enough. Too many things change… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
To prop up the stock price, managers have to turn down the screws on everybody. That forces them to cancel all the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
“In retailing, more is (mostly) seen as better. Competition is fiercest on the most basic grocery items: some 400 lines, which in… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
“Segmentation is really about meeting some needs very strongly, even at the expense of others, which a retailer cannot afford to do.… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
When the secretary of treasury, the head of the central bank, the head of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.), and the… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Many companies operate from more of a command-and-control environment - they decide what's going to happen at headquarters and have the organization… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image