The Business Quote topic for this week is, appropriately for a Monday, about starting new things. “It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.” – James Cash Penney J.C. Penney started one of the largest department store chains of the last century so he knew a thing or two about starting something and…
We’re continuing with the return of the Business Quote of the Week for now, so appropriately the quote this week is on the topic of keeping things going: “Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.” This was a quote from the famous golfer Tom Watson and you have to take a quote about momentum…
It’s the return of a popular TSBB feature after an absence of over three years – the Business Quote of the week! The quote this week is from American swimming gold medalist Mark Spitz and, appropriately, it concerns a comeback: “By making a comeback, I’m changing the attitude of people toward me. If I’d known…
This post was inspired by an article that I recently read on Fast Company called: Acquisition Is Sexy! Retention is Boring…Right? It’s coming to the end if the year and if you’re not in the swing of preparing for the Xmas rush I guess that your business will start slowing down as Xmas approaches. If…
Following on from my previous post (You cannot improve one thing by 1000% but you can improve 1000 little things by 1%), I’d like to share with you another quote: A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an…
I like quotes because they can take a whole heap of learning and experience and deliver it in a few powerful words. So, as part of my posts here going forward, I thought I’d share a few quotes with you and what I think they mean. Here’s one I really like: “You cannot improve one…
George Bernard Shaw got it right: “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” You probably became a small business owner because you’re passionate, smart, informed and likely very obsessed with your company’s success. You live it. You breathe it. You sleep it. It’s easy to get so engrossed…
A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognise them.” Ann Landers (1918-2002) US columnist, attrib. To view previous quotes, click here
A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” Edith Lovejoy Pierce (b. 1904) poet To view previous quotes, click here
A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. “The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won, but to have fought well.” Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) French founder of the modern Olympic Games, Speech (July 1908) To view previous quotes, click here
A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. “Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.” Rupert Murdoch (b. 1931) US CEO of News Corporation, The New Yorker (1979) To view previous quotes, click here
A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. “Ideas are useless unless used.” Theodore Levitt (1925-2006) US management theorist, Inc (February 1981) To view previous quotes, click here
A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. “The volatility at the core of deregulated financial institutions makes a world economy that is organised as a system of free markets essentially unstable” John Gray (b. 1948) British academic & writer, False Dawn (1998) To view previous quotes of the day, click…
A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. “We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?” Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) French poet, attrib. To view previous quotes of the day, click here
A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. “Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.” Henry James (1843-1916) US novelist, The Portrait of a Lady (1881) To view previous quotes of the day, click here
A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. “Over the past 25 years, economic forecasters have missed four of the past five recessions.” Anonymous, Business Week (30 September 1996) To view previous quotes of the day, click here
A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. “No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.” F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) US Writer, The Crack-Up (1945) To view previous quotes of the day, click here
A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. “In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.” J.K. Galbraith (1908- 2006) US economist & diplomat, New York Times Magazine (June1970) To view previous quotes of the day, click here
A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. “First things first, second things never.” Shirley Conran (b. 1932) British designer, fashion editor & author, Superwoman (1975) To view previous quotes of the day, click here
A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. “I hope I can prove to be the exception to the rule that good guys always finish last.” Arthur Ashe (1943-93) US tennis player, speech at an award ceremony (1964) To view previous quotes of the day, click here
