Top 100 Business Development Quotes
#1. Siebel's business development executive admitted that all of the company's acquisitions have failed and noted that an internal study indicated that "cultural conflicts" were the cause in every case.5
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#2. To be even more successful in Business Development, lighten up, enjoy the journey, learn from your prospects and learn from your experiences. As a professional Business Developer, don't take yourself or any situation too seriously, and always be thankful for your resulting opportunities.
Nicholas Coppings
#3. Design is all about relationships. Unfortunately, many designers don't fully appreciate this. Some of the best design work I've ever done was drinking coffee or beers with engineers, marketing people, and business development hustlers. And I wholeheartedly mean design work.
Daniel Burka
#4. People who sell advertising are called "account executives." People who sell customers work in "business development." People who sell companies are "investment bankers." And people who sell themselves are called "politicians." ==========
Anonymous
#5. In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#6. Inspiring leadership communication is not about great oratory or great charisma; rather it is about getting others to believe in themselves and believe in your cause, and then achieve more than they thought was possible.
Kevin Murray
#7. In regards to planning your career, you need to treat it (your career) just like a business.
Auliq Ice
#8. However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a trajectory of growth that results in the development of increasing emotional, cognitive, and social complexity.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#9. Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves
John Bright
#10. If leadership is the way forward, vision is its walking stick.
Nkem Paul
#11. Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so it has to be a priority for all of us, not only the government and civil society, but also the business sector.
Shakira
#12. And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.
Alan Shepard
#13. Recognizing our responsibilities as industrialists, we will devote ourselves to the progress and development of society and the well-being of people through our business activities, thereby enhancing the quality of life throughout the world.
Konosuke Matsushita
#14. Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting & in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously & continuously a plan for self-development & growth.
David J. Schwartz
#15. I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
#16. Rethink success: Few people will ever discover that the most important business they will ever run.. is their life!
Tony Dovale
#17. Present your product and service simple and direct. Eliminate senseless small talk that takes up valuable time.
Timi Nadela
#18. Government and business must come together on the interlinked issues of conservation, economic development and renewable energy. There are literally thousands of businesses, many in the tourism industry, that depend on an intact marine environment for their long-term survival.
Richard Branson
#19. In the professional world of leadership ambition and potential are the most excessive commodities.
Noel DeJesus
#20. Your career growth depends mainly on how well you can articulate and present your performance review.
Abhishek Ratna
#21. This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a few will turn tiny loans into a viable business is simply unrealistic.
Ian Smillie
#22. Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.
P.T. Barnum
#23. Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.
Hilarie Owen
#24. Companies not interested in sustainable development issues will not survive long
Malcolm Brinded
#25. Make Hard Work Your Best Friend. Hard Work becomes Smart Work; Smart Work becomes Easy Work.
Vid Lamonte' Buggs Jr.
#27. People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.
Robert Redford
#28. The golf facet of my life doesn't go with the rest of my life, which is a rough-and-tumble life. I work in real estate development, which is the toughest business, and I do it in the toughest city. I deal with ruthless people.
Donald Trump
#29. Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.
Brendon Burchard
#30. The movers & shakers of the world are not imbued with special powers. Once you realize that, you too can attain your rightful mantle.
Mario J. Lucero
#31. All of the development I do is with the help of business advisors who are more like my best friends than just business people. They helped me as I created Ipsy back in 2011, which is a beauty community that ships out sampling bags to subscribers.
Michelle Phan
#32. Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.
Henry Ford
#33. The key to human development is building on who you already are
Tom Rath
#34. My other creative outlet is knitting; aside from being fun, it is my antidote to the film business: I have full creative control, there is no development process, and I can self-finance.
Linda Goldstein Knowlton
#35. There is no failure, unless we fail to begin or we fail to continue.
Christopher Babson
#36. Our place of birth is not so much as important as our place of berth, yet we can't moore. If we do we know our birthplace for the first time.
Amah Lambert
#37. Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.
Rachael Bermingham
#38. When developing a Windows Store business app you should consult the following checklists to accelerate development while ensuring that a maintainable and testable app is produced.
Anonymous
#39. Software development is a cruel business. Every detail matters - just
Erik Peterson
#40. We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.
Stephen Harper
#41. For business and life, if you are not experiencing growth, you're possibly dying.
Nkem Paul
#42. When it comes to busines ... I mean your business. Always remember you are the leader of your businesnot the Manager. You are the inspiration of your organization, you are the core that moves your business forward ... and this is your added value as a business owner.
Sameh Elsayed
#43. Success is a matter of choice, not chance ~ Deepak Mehra
Deepak Mehra
#44. Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!
Denise Moreland
#45. My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.
Melinda Gates
#46. Until you become so passionate about you and your business no one will. You are your first cheerleader and business promoter.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#47. There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown.
Michael Ritchie
#48. Based on my pool of coached clients, 90% of the challenges for business owners exist in a lack of personal development.
Darren L Johnson
#50. By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg!
Lewis Mumford
#51. When you have growth and development, you have more work to do in the fire business. Thats going to be the reality in the future.
Jim Sinclair
#52. Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#53. My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.
Hugh Jackman
#54. Critical questions from inside and outside the organization should essentially center on: How will this decision promote or prevent the strategic intent, and the corporate mission and values? What impact will this decision have on individual development (business value/social contribution)? Where do
Julia Sloan
#55. The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action - an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign - even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo.
Bill Taylor
#56. Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills.
Abhishek Ratna
#57. In the corporate world, what is not showcased well simply doesn't exist for any practical purpose!
Abhishek Ratna
#58. The key difference between captain and coach? The latter's opportunities for influence come at moments when play isn't happening,
Carolyn Taylor
#59. Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.
Peter Blair Henry
#60. In order to sustain the integrity of the organization, a business must dedicate time and resources to education, leadership development, and personnel development. Don't focus on the product. Focus on the team.
Robert Kiyosaki
#61. Customers expect salespeople to stimulate the sales process, to ask the right questions and finally to ask for their business. When this initiative or confidence is lacking, no matter how much they like you personally, they aren't going to respect or value you as a business partner.
Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder
#62. When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.
Paul Gibbons
#63. If your business is to grow and prosper, as a leader, you need to focus on people development.
Robert Kiyosaki
#64. If you keep looking at your business wishes as delusional dreams you will end up running just another one of them. If you get inspired by your business wishes then plan to find a way and people to make it happen, you will end up mastering a second to none organization.
Sameh Elsayed
#65. My basic strategy is to stick to my core business, and to my area of expertise. My businesses are all related - retail, shopping centers, banking, real estate and tourism development. Together they create synergy.
Henry Sy
#66. Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.
David J. Greer
#67. A SWOT analysis involves asking, What are our strengths and weaknesses? What are our opportunities? What are the threats?
Amanda Lang
#68. You don't have to prove confidence; when you have it, it'll show.
Real confidence is quiet, tactful, civil, and humble.
Rosalinda Oropeza Randall
#69. What kind of impression are you leaving on people? Activate the ability for your first impression and last impression!
John Di Lemme
#70. At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of whom knew my age because I could conduct all my business with a phone, scanner, and the Internet.
Aaron Patzer
#71. Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.
Y. C. James Yen
#72. Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development.
Andrew Oliver
#73. What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search of opportunities for growth. Platforms like the Global Social Business Summit can facilitate the process on bringing about change.
Muhammad Yunus
#74. Part-time effort means part-tim results.
Tony Curl
#75. Every day is a training day and every event is a training event.
James Pritchert
#76. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
Mark W. Boyer
#77. If the business were a play, Act One is: Woohoo, bright and bushy-tailed. We're going to make something great! Act Two is: We're six months behind on back-end development. We're trying to raise venture capital. We're trying to figure out what furniture we should sell to make payroll.
Caterina Fake
#78. Commitment to ourselves, our families, and our business is paramount to being successful. Human should be committed to rolling out great products, services and initiatives that impact those personal and professionals encounters which cross our path.
Sameh Elsayed
#79. If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.
T. Harv Eker
#80. The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now.
Kofi Annan
#81. Disrupting yourself is critical to avoiding stagnation, being overtaken by low-end entrants (i.e., younger, smarter, faster workers), and fast-tracking your personal and career growth.
Whitney Johnson
#82. A gap in skills and abilities reveal a golden opportunity!
Abhishek Ratna
#83. Never put your business in the hands of one person or a select few. People leave. People die. People forget.
Liz Weber
#84. I spent my whole career in the technology business, and I was convinced of the importance, at a grand scale, of the development of global connectivity.
John Morgridge
#85. You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It's easy
Dale Carnegie
#86. A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.
Rod Blagojevich
#87. We Experiment Endlessly, With New Products, New Methods, New Companies And New Marketing. A Successful Business The Emphasis Is On Experiment And Development, Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business.
Richard Branson
#88. From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.
Gautam Adani
#89. The work environment can bring out the 'best' or the 'worst' in you.
Abhishek Ratna
#90. However, most defects end up costing more than it would have cost to prevent them. Defects are expensive when they occur, both the direct costs of fixing the defects and the indirect costs because of damaged relationships, lost business, and lost development time.
Kent Beck
#91. At BanyanBrain you can get services related to iPhone app development and game development in India. Our focus is to make perfect and very innovative apps and games because we believe in quality and we will help to grow your business.
Ashutosh
#92. When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you'll be blameless.
Seth Godin
#93. Succeeding in life and business is like falling in love with your wife (for those of you that are married). You can't leave your wife at the mercy of another man and feel safe.
Nkem Paul
#94. There is an interplay between great leadership, events, trends, the organization, the people in it, the market 'out there' that goes far beyond one person exercising their will over others.
That's not what leadership is any more.
Phil Dourado
#95. Plan your work and work your plan" we used to say in my first Silicon Valley sales job. Identify the steps you need to take to get where you are going. Without a map who knows where you'll end up! Certainly not where you intended to be.
Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder
#96. If you find a community with less production and less inspiring inventions, then know it is a sign of lack of Business Leaders and full of General Managers do not know what they can manage or what they are managing.
Sameh Elsayed
#97. Business was bound to come; light industries were already shopping for land. The quiet country farms were already going, and developments would take over ... Eventually, of course, we will have to have some sort of plan to guide future development.
Gladys Taber
#98. I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.
Nico Tortorella
#99. To be successful, any business requires a concentrated investment of time and energy; wherein each stage of the development has its tactics and priorities, in regards to which activities and when it makes sense to invest the efforts in.
Sahara Sanders
#100. At a career peak, there is certainly the specter of competition from below, but just as importantly, there's the risk that if we aren't on a curve that satisfies us emotionally, we may be the cause of our own undoing.
Whitney Johnson
