Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship. It drives everything: Job creation, poverty alleviation, innovation. — Elliott Bisnow Copy Share Image
Get your customers involved in your business. Make them your partners and they'll never leave you. — Kevin Stirtz Copy Share Image
Your personal brand is a promise to your clients... a promise of quality, consistency, competency, and reliability. — Jason Hartman Copy Share Image
We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
Fact: If you don’t have an effective plan for selling, any business you get is accidental. — Todd Duncan Copy Share Image
“The cash flow statement also differs from the income statement in that it shows many transactions that would not appear on the… — Mike Piper Copy Share Image
There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation,… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“[...] We keep a record for every member, and for every customer who might yet become a member, in order to track… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
The markets represent the aggregate interaction of many investors. Their attitudes, philosophies, and behavioral patterns on many levels are predictable... and repetitive. — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
“So please don't forget that considering the probabilities of future returns only begins the decision-making process. Decisions have consequences. If the consequences… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The returns we read about in the industry sales literature vastly diminish when we move from the theoretical world of market indexes… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
During the early stages of an industry, when the functionality and reliability of a product isn't yet adequate to meet customer's needs,… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
From my perspective, as an entrepreneur, one is wired to take risks. You, of course, need to be smart and take calculated… — Ritesh Agarwal Copy Share Image
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Everyone caved, adopted loose [accounting] standards, and created exotic derivatives linked to theoretical models. As a result, all kinds of earnings, blessed… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“With that said, if you were to be a long-term investor in Ethereum, you have to focus on the long-term timeline, with… — Jeff Reed Copy Share Image
“A customer came in, the only one in the last couple of hours. The man had the shakes and was looking around… — Joe Ide Copy Share Image
The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The good thing about the dividend-paying stocks is, first of all you have stocks, which are real assets if we have some… — Jeremy Siegel Copy Share Image
The general systems of money management today require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't.… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The debate can be put in the form of the question: Resolved, that the best of money managers cannot be demonstrated to… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great. — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
I don't think my wheelhouse is comfortable in Wall Street. My wheelhouse is small-town America. — Jimmy John Liautaud Copy Share Image
Disruption starts with committing to excellence and taking a stand for your customer. — Lewis Howes Copy Share Image
“Sales is about action, and analysis-paralysis is not a quality that tends to produce new business development success.” — Mike Weinberg Copy Share Image
It's definitely much harder to run a hedge fund today than it used to be, in my opinion. That's because there are… — Julian Robertson Copy Share Image
“Lifetime value and customer acquisition cost are two of the key numbers you need to know to measure marketing effectiveness.” — Allan Dib Copy Share Image
You can never go too far wrong by thinking like a customer who’s new to the business. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Every founder has to delude themselves into thinking, "Yes, it's going to be big. It's going to take over the world." — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
“If you cannot tie your marketing efforts to actual dollars that the electric company will accept, it’s time to adjust your plan.” — Amber Hurdle Copy Share Image
“Ronan, for his part, couldn’t quite believe how ordinary the people on Wall Street were. “It’s a whole industry of bullshit,” he… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
“Let the Wall Street investors curse us if they wish, we will stick to this principle…” — Think Maverick Copy Share Image
Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make. — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
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