"The point of business is to create a customer who creates a customer."
“Business opportunities are like buses, if you miss one there is always another one that comes around.” (Richard Branson)
“Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, good companies survive them, great companies are improved by them.” (Andy Grove - former CEO of IBM)
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” (John D. Rockefeller)
“Cash is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it’s present… the only thing in mind when it’s absent.” (Warren Buffett)
“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” (Tony Hsieh)
“Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.” (Don Marquis)
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” (Warren Buffett)
"You can't sell yesterday's bread tomorrow." (Steve Forbes)
"In the short run the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine." (Warren Buffet)
"Don't just satisfy your customers - delight them…. Anybody who has happy customers is likely to have a pretty good future." (Warren Buffet)
"The investor's chief problem and his worst enemy is likely to be himself." (Benjamin Graham)
"Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does." (Warren Buffet)
"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." (Warren Buffett)
"Disagree then commit." (Intel)
“The secret to my success is that we’ve gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world.” (Steve Jobs)
“People are your most important resource and truth is the foundation of excellence, do make your personnel evaluations as precise and accurate as possible.” (Ray Dalio)
"Business is a never-ending quest to deliver the same result in an easier fashion." (James Clear)
“What matters is: Are you a good problem solver? Are you moral? Are you a hard worker? Are you a good leader? Do you have insights into the field? These are the questions that matter.”
"Nobody wants to buy a quarter inch drill - they just want a quarter inch HOLE."
- People don't want to buy your product, they want a solution to their problem. That's all.
[2020] "Its never been easier to start a company. It's never been harder to build one." (Naval Ravikant)
"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be a more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks." - Warren Buffet
“Companies don’t have one founding moment, they have multiple founding moments.” (Jack Dorsey)
“Sorry the letter I wrote you was so long, it would have been shorter if I had more time.”
“Don’t just make more money from getting new clients, rather upsell current clients to get money instead.” (Mike Stromeyer)
"One thing Gary Vee says is, 'How your employees feel on their way out matters just as much as how they feel on the way in, if not more.'" (Zain Gaziani)
“If you can’t communicate, it’s like winking at a girl in the dark—nothing happens. You can have all the brainpower in the world, but you have to be able to transmit it.” (Buffett on the importance of EQ)
“Customers are like thieves. You never know when they are coming or leaving.”
“Once you have many people doing something, you have lots of competition and little differentiation. You, generally, never want to be part of a popular trend… So I think trends are often things to avoid. What I prefer over trends is a sense of mission. That you are working on a unique problem that people are not solving elsewhere.” (Peter Thiel)
"When you compete to be the best, you imitate. When you compete to be unique, you innovate. In business, multiple winners can thrive and coexist. You don’t have to annihilate your competition. While imitation creates a race to the bottom, innovation promotes healthy competition and economic growth." (David Perell)
“What are you willing to be good at? What are you willing to be bad at?” — Scott Belsky
“When you’re successful, the market starts to shift towards you.” — Scott Belsky
"The older the industry you're attacking, the more protected it is by government and corruption." — Travis Kalanick
“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.” — Heraclitus
“You’re better off with a great salesman and a mediocre product than with a masterpiecr and a moron to sell it.” — Herb Cohen
“In order for the product to speak for itself, it needs someone to speak to.” — Jason Fried
“There are no mature sectors where everything is already discovered, but rather companies or managers with closed minds who resist innovation.” — Amancio Ortega
“Use meeting time as data entry time.” — Taylor, Ambient AI
“An organization is like a party. You only want to invite people who bring the vibe up.” — Brad Jaocbs
“Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character. Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.” — Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang
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