Browse 487 quotes about Small Business.
“We are doing business in the empowerment age. It is our job to empower our customers to choose us. The moment you tell them to choose you, they will back up. The moment you tell someone to trust you, they won’t.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“When you’re self-employed, your success is proportionate to your personal development.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“The myth of self-employment is we go into business for ourselves thinking we’re going to gain control over our destiny without realizing we are entering completely uncontrollable circumstances.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“When we’re self-employed, much of what has been typical of business, marketing, and sales has creeped us out. We want to do business in ways that feel good to us.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“You need a healthy, thriving self-employed ecosystem. An ecosystem that integrates the three main elements of self-employed success--personal development, business strategies, and daily habit.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“The beginning of change doesn’t come from motivation and dangling carrots. It begins with being clear about what you want to get away from.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“We stretch ourselves when the impact we want to make and the life we want to create is bigger than the fear and challenges.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“The old-adage that business is business, don’t take it personal, doesn’t apply to the self-employed. It’s all personal!”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“The safest way to be in business today and the way to gain as much control over your business as possible, is to have a business model of multiples where you can reach a multiple of audiences in multiple ways.”
Source: The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
“She'd poured her joy into the filling as if it were tablespoons of pure vanilla extract. Did she really have the power to transfer emotions into the food she made?”
Source: The Antiques & Collectibles Mysteries Boxed Set: Books 1-3
“The choice is not, Reich argues, between a governed and an ungoverned market, but between a market governed by laws favoring monopolistic companies and one governed by those favoring small business.”
Source: Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
“Your confidence, competence and belief will sustain you through the fear, uncertainty and doubt you will face. Knowing with everything you are, that you can do it.”
Source: The Overlooked Expert
“Commitment shows up before results do!”
“RULE #1
Market your business to the customer YOU WANT.
Most beauty businesses try to be everything to everyone. It's exhausting and expensive promoting yourself to everyone. Most people simply give up.
Focus on the customers you really want. What is your passion, what do you excel in? Who is your ideal customer? What would you ideally like to do every day in your business?
Focus on what you want to do and the clients you want, and market directly to them and only them.”
Source: RETAIL LEGENDS: How to have more CUSTOMERS coming through your door FAST, Beauty Salon Tips
“Your world is created by your words.”
Source: Get To The Top
“Convenience will put you out of business!”
Source: *57* Must Use Words in Every Piece of Marketing that You Do for Your Business
“Good decision making is the result of years of experience making and learning from one's choices - good and bad.”
Source: Ethics & Risk Management for Christian Coaches
“With a strong personal brand, you become the only option in the eyes of your ideal customer.”
Source: The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave Female Entrepreneur
“A small businesses ability to gain an edge for a profitable niche is not by just focusing on the dynamic market gap, but by identifying a market within the gap.”
“10% of my Life is out of my control. I am responsible for 90% only.”
“No one can stop you growing in this digital world.”
“Everyone you come in contact with knows a person who runs or owns a business. Make sure they know what you do, so when the time comes, you get the call, not someone else.”
Source: The Overlooked Expert
“Choose and create a circle of proper advisors around you. Do not discuss your project with your relatives, neighbor, grandmother, friends’ friends, pastor, or babysitter! Thank God pets can’t talk or you’d probably ask their opinions too!”
Source: Outsourcing Tips and Tricks: Getting the Best Bang for Your Buck
“What kind of impression are you leaving on people? Activate the ability for your first impression and last impression!”
Source: *57* Must Use Words in Every Piece of Marketing that You Do for Your Business
“Marketers are focused and sales people are scattered!”
“What are you doing to serve your customers a little more every day?”
Source: *57* Must Use Words in Every Piece of Marketing that You Do for Your Business
“You have to actively listen to your clients and provide the service they’re looking for!”
Source: *57* Must Use Words in Every Piece of Marketing that You Do for Your Business
“A moral dilemma can be large or small, important or inconsequential, urgent or secondary. One thing is certain: moral dilemmas are ever present.”
Source: Ethics & Risk Management for Christian Coaches
“You don't have to justify your path to anyone. If people says to you "Why would you start this business?” Your response “because this is what I choose.” No further explanation necessary.”
Source: Get To The Top
“Don’t get me wrong. Government Contracting is difficult, but the help you give the government makes our country strong.”
Source: The Minority and Woman-Owned Small Business Guide to Government Contracts: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
“Always do what is right with the customer. What you sow now, you will harvest later.”
Source: Get To The Top
“Hidden skills and knowledge are the essence of a successful small business or consulting firm. Unlease and leverage what is locked inside your head to help others while help yourself.”
Source: The Overlooked Expert
“The Overlooked Expert is the person who's fully capable of starting and running a profitable business.”
Source: The Overlooked Expert
“Where one sees a dead end, another sees a freeway without a speed limit. That's what separates the entrepreneur or small business owner from the rest of the world.”
Source: The Overlooked Expert
“The business motivation behind creating a partnership is to dramatically accelerate revenue at a fraction of the cost.”
Source: The Overlooked Expert
“I think the biggest mistake salespeople make is they pretend they’re not salespeople but a consultant. The word changes, but the people are the same.”
Source: Get To The Top
“The code-of-ethics playlist:
o Treat your colleagues, family, and friends with respect, dignity, fairness, and courtesy.
o Pride yourself in the diversity of your experience and know that you have a lot to offer.
o Commit to creating and supporting a world that is free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.
o Have balance in your life and help others to do the same.
o Invest in yourself, achieve ongoing enhancement of your skills, and continually upgrade your abilities.
o Be approachable, listen carefully, and look people directly in the eyes when speaking.
o Be involved, know what is expected from you, and let others know what is expected from them.
o Recognize and acknowledge achievement.
o Celebrate, relive, and communicate your successes on an ongoing basis.”
Source: Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace
“Many small businesses are doomed from day one, not from competition or the economy, but from the ignorance of their owners . . . their destiny is already decided because they have no idea how a business should be operated.”
Source: Go Broke, Die Rich: Turning Around the Troubled Small Business
“There are few experiences in life as painful and brutal as the failure of a small business. For a small business conceived and nurtured by its owner is like a living, breathing child. Its loss is no less traumatic than losing a loved one.”
Source: Go Broke, Die Rich: Turning Around the Troubled Small Business
“Why help make big companies bigger when you can get the same thing from the little guy and actually help someone accomplish their dream?”
Source: Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files
“90% of new business fail in the first three months of launching, due to lack of proper planning, wrong selection of niche/products and marketing platform.”
Source: How to Start a New Business from Scratch and Skyrocket your Income in 9 Easy Steps
“Today I was overwhelmed, Yesterday I was too. There’s a high probability that tomorrow will bring a few moments of the same. I know my state is because of my nature.
Embrace your inner
overachiever.”
“How long does it last?" Said the other customer, a man wearing a tan shirt with little straps that buttoned on top of the shoulders. He looked as if he were comparing all the pros and cons before shelling out $.99. You could see he thought he was pretty shrewd.
"It lasts for as long as you live," the manager said slowly. There was a second of silence while we all thought about that. The man in the tan shirt drew his head back, tucking his chin into his neck. His mind was working like a house on fire
"What about other people?" He asked. "The wife? The kids?"
"They can use your membership as long as you're alive," the manager said, making the distinction clear.
"Then what?" The man asked, louder. He was the type who said things like "you get what you pay for" and "there's one born every minute" and was considering every angle. He didn't want to get taken for a ride by his own death.
"That's all," the manager said, waving his hands, palms down, like a football referee ruling an extra point no good. "Then they'd have to join for themselves or forfeit the privileges."
"Well then, it makes sense," the man said, on top of the situation now, "for the youngest one to join. The one that's likely to live the longest."
"I can't argue with that," said the manager.
The man chewed his lip while he mentally reviewed his family. Who would go first. Who would survive the longest. He cast his eyes around to all the cassettes as if he'd see one that would answer his question. The woman had not gone away. She had brought along her signed agreement, the one that she paid $25 for.
"What is this accident waiver clause?" She asked the manager.
"Look," he said, now exhibiting his hands to show they were empty, nothing up his sleeve, "I live in the real world. I'm a small businessman, right? I have to protect my investment, don't I? What would happen if, and I'm not suggesting you'd do this, all right, but some people might, what would happen if you decided to watch one of my movies in the bathtub and a VCR you rented from me fell into the water?"
The woman retreated a step. This thought had clearly not occurred to her before.”
Source: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
“It's ironic, since they're supposed to be immortal, but vampires are kind of like small businesses: half of them go down within their first year”
Source: Shadows & Dreams
“The goal is to build a profitable business, not maintain an expensive hobby that will leave you in the poorhouse.”
Source: Accounting for the Numberphobic: A Survival Guide for Small Business Owners
“Every small business has to become a publisher—a publisher of marketing messages and customer resources, and a publisher of stories.”
Source: The Age of the Customer: Prepare for the Moment of Relevance
“If you don’t have regular and accurate financial statements, you’re driving your business 100 miles an hour down a one-way street the wrong way, at night, in the fog, without lights.”
Source: The Age of the Customer: Prepare for the Moment of Relevance
“If leadership is the way forward, vision is its walking stick.”
“As a small business owner, you must sell or you will go out of business. Therefore, you must prospect (it's an integral part of the process). You have to bring people to your business, not just wait for them to show up.”
Source: Lemonade Stand Selling: Accelerate Your Small Business Growth
“The New Economy is one where small business has the advantage. What is it
about small business that is unique? Today’s small businesses are lean, smart, complex – eternally entrepreneurial – not just small versions of big business. These entrepreneurial models are the survivors in today’s economy.”
Source: Thriving in the New Economy