Top 70 Best Business Advice Quotes
#2. Earn the Right - Ensure you put this chunk of Sales Tetris in place first and all the other pieces just take their own positions naturally.
Chris Murray
#3. Think of every contact a customer has with your brand as the most important encounter of your life.
Dane Brookes
#4. Look for patterns, and then ask why those patterns exist.
Debra Kaye
#5. Really good customer service will deliver sales. You are training salesmen to give the best possible advice and then to achieve the sale. People actually like you to ask for a sale because it shows you value their business.
John Caudwell
#6. One of the most important pieces of advice that I have learned is to listen to your customers. They will be able to tell you how your business is doing and what direction you need to go in.
Bill Zanker
#7. Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs
Chris Murray
#8. Avoid the Yes or No-and-Go scenario.Give more than one option for others to do business with you. Include packages or pricing options.
Lisa A. Mininni
#9. It's easy to think people have no business giving you advice when it isn't the advice you want to hear.
Katie Kacvinsky
#10. It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said.
Debra Kaye
#11. My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.
Simon Cowell
#12. If you don't ask, you'll never know. Be an educated risk taker.
Aliza Licht
#13. Create reciprocity in your business by making the first gesture, like make a comment on the blog of a great speaker.
Lisa A. Mininni
#14. If someone shows promise in a trade, why not give them practical business advice, teach them how to handle money, show them the ways they can start their own business, and help them to become fully trained?
Erin Osborne
#17. Like Hansel and Gretel whose trail of breadcrumbs got eaten~ your customer may lose their way once they have left your website and they may never come back.
An email marketing list helps you remind your customers of who you and your business are.
Nina Montgomery
#18. For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
#20. The best piece of advice I've ever been given was, 'Be in the business you're in.' Don't just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business you're in.
Ray Stevenson
#21. Why do customers (and that includes you and me) find it so difficult to recall more than a couple of occasions when they felt that they were treated exceptionally by the salespeople who dealt with them?
Chris Murray
#22. While we share the same set of values, we can - and do - have different business interests. Dad has been there to give me career advice along the way, but he has always let me call the play.
Ross Perot Jr.
#23. ...relentlessly pursue your best method of getting customers, and not the stuff you naturally gravitate to.
Dan Norris
#24. The first part of success is "Get-to-it-iveness"; the second part of success is "Stick-to-it-iveness".
Orison Swett Marden
#25. Competition is simply an unestablished paternship.
Tyler Wagner
#27. Your business is not hardware. Your business is communications. Your business is access to information.
Michael Crichton
#28. Seal the Deal Tip: When meeting with someone who asks a lot of questions, they're seeking information. Once you meet their need for proof and information, they will say Yes! I want to do business with you.
Lisa A. Mininni
#29. Don't hesitate to seek external help or advice where need be. Sometimes, it takes an external, emotionally unattached individual to detect your business flaws and render unbiased advice.
Richard Branson
#30. Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
#31. If you know what your customers want, the other aspect to know is what are your competitors doing?
Shawn Casemore
#34. My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you're doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing.
Matthew Gray Gubler
#35. The fact that you have started a small business doesn't mean you should be thinking small. Think BIG! Start Small! Expand your territories!
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#36. Investments in greater email marketing sophistication often lead to even higher returns, not diminishing returns.
Chad White
#37. You must first serve yourself to sustainably serve others.
Lisa A. Mininni
#38. We're all somebody's prospect; we're all somebody's customer.
Chris Murray
#40. Systems give you freedom. Put one business system in place this week and watch what happens.
Lisa A. Mininni
#41. I never want to make screw-you money like the rest of the financial services industry.
Dan Price
#42. Artificial Intelligence is not a Man versus Machine saga; it's in fact, Man with Machine synergy.
Sudipto Ghosh
#43. It is easier to define whether or not you can afford something than whether you need it in the first place.
Michael F. Bruyn
#45. Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
#46. Marketers and executives are very different from the average consumer, so your instincts may mislead you.
Chad White
#47. If customers don't trust you to help them at the beginning of the sales process, they certainly won't trust you with their money at the end of it.
Chris Murray
#48. The ability to listen,watch and draw lessons from obvious and unlikely places breeds originality and growth
Biz Stone
#50. Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?
Joshua E. Leyenhorst
#51. No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
Elbert Hubbard
#52. Remind me, Lord, of why I create things and that YOU ... you are the best of artists, put these gifts in me to share with the world.
Jennifer Allwood
#53. Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.
Karen Mills
#54. Poor practices are blunting email marketing's effectiveness and keeping its ROI from being truly awesome.
Chad White
#55. Best practices are those practices that generally produce the best results or minimize risk.
Chad White
#56. One of the best bits of advice I can give is, early on, when you're building a new business, try to find somebody to run it on a day-to-day basis to free yourself up to look at the bigger picture.
Richard Branson
#57. One of the ways to make sure you have a thriving practice is to always market. The best way to do that is to systematize your marketing mix, so it runs on autopilot.
Lisa A. Mininni
#58. The on-brand execution of best practices tailored to your unique audience is what leads to the best execution.
Chad White
#59. The best advice I ever got was from Lee Iacocca ... It was get into a business where you can be a big fish, not the little fish. Get into a business where you can be a change agent, where you can make a difference.
Marcus Lemonis
#60. Make Hard Work Your Best Friend. Hard Work becomes Smart Work; Smart Work becomes Easy Work.
Vid Lamonte' Buggs Jr.
#61. Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you're the best person for the job
Chris Murray
#62. Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.
Walter Matthau
#63. Overwhelmed? Delegate. For perfectionists of the world, this is often a challenge. While you may think only you can do it best, you are denying someone else an opportunity to learn when you do everything yourself. Being the bottleneck serves no one, including you.
Lisa A. Mininni
#64. Given the reality of limited time and resources, best practices provide a valuable, low risk, default starting point.
Chad White
#65. I know that I personally have felt quite happy because I've done what I wanted to do. I pursued my interests and have thus managed to combine my business with lots of fun. I guess my only advice is to do what you enjoy, and try to do your best with it.
Jim Henson
#66. The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Linus Pauling
#67. Best practices are particularly valuable to those who are unfamiliar with email's unique, often confusing rules.
Chad White
#68. Treat each event you attend and each person that you meet as if it were an appointment with your one of your best clients -- even if you are meeting that person for the very first time.
Timothy M. Houston
#69. The best thing about having my own company is that I get to go to my kids' school events. I make my own schedule. I make my own destiny. - Allison Krongard, Wall Candy Arts
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