Business Skills Quotes

#1. There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

Douglas Hurd

#2. My business skills have come from being guided by my inner self - my intuition.

Oprah Winfrey

#3. Without business skills, your passion or hobby will not translate into money in your pocket.

Ehab Atalla

#4. Don't worry; skills are cheap, passion is priceless. If you're passionate about your content and you know it and do it better than anyone else, even with few formal business skills you have the potential to create a million-dollar business.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#5. The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.

Bill Gates

#6. I believe in solving social ills with business skills.

Richie Norton

#7. I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills there - I was an associate producer for a little bit.

Manish Dayal

#8. I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business so you can speak with CEOs.

Shawne Merriman

#9. Business skills, when well applied, can do more than just make money. They can potentially make money and do some real good, which is immensely satisfying. To do that, it's important to think outside the box, take risks, and be an entrepreneur.

Jeffrey Skoll

#10. I think we need to rethink a lot of business skills. In finance, for example, social impact bonds are potentially a way of providing capital for investments that save the public money in a context in which government often doesn't invest in things that would save it money.

Nicholas Kristof

#11. Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.

Maria Bartiromo

#12. Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

Virginia Woolf

#13. When preparing a presentation, it's never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you're focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.

Dale Ludwig

#14. If you don't use your new knowledge and skills within a relatively short space of time, then it may have been better never to have had the tantalising prospect of change for the better placed in front of you.

Robin Hoyle

#15. 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

#16. Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs

Chris Murray

#17. Just as you can't rehearse your way to success, you can't design your way there either.

Dale Ludwig

#18. You have the power to choose the words you write, so choose the right ones. And yes, this applies to the workplace too. Make a difference!

Sudakshina Bhattacharjee

#19. Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.

Harvey MacKay

#20. Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities - they flat out trust their skills, which is why we call this high-performance state of mind the "Trusting Mindset."

John Eliot

#21. I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

Irvine Welsh

#22. 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

#23. Competition is simply an unestablished paternship.

Tyler Wagner

#24. A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.

Dale Ludwig

#25. See the big picture and details of everything in your life (zoom out, then zoom in).

Ehab Atalla

#26. Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.

Anthony Pratt

#27. The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

Andy Grove

#28. Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

Paul Ryan

#29. We're all somebody's prospect; we're all somebody's customer.

Chris Murray

#30. Always have a backup plan in case you fail. Prepare for another business.

Ehab Atalla

#31. There is always something better to do with your time and business. Always look for the next step for growth in your career.

Ehab Atalla

#32. Business is a basketball game. The more tricks you know, the more points you score.

Ehab Atalla

#33. A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

Jon Meacham

#34. 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

#35. Life is based on leverage. The more you know how to leverage life, the more successful you will become.

Ehab Atalla

#36. Political skills are essential career competencies to get ahead and stay ahead.

Bonnie Marcus

#37. Where do business leaders turn for advice to improve their leadership skills? Many successful leaders like Dan Cathy, President and COO of Chick-fil-A turn to the Bible. Speaking at Trinity College in Illinois, "Cathy discussed how scripture dictates Chick-fil-A's business plan.

R.J. Stepansky

#38. Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Bill Gates

#39. During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention.

Dale Ludwig

#40. Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills.

Abhishek Ratna

#41. If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

Daphne Koller

#42. In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.

Mary Cunningham Agee

#43. Being an actor is wonderful and it's a lot of fun, but eventually you look old and you can't fit this or that. It's important to have other skills, be able to do other things, and to really learn how this business works and what it thrives on.

Gabourey Sidibe

#44. When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

Daniel Goleman

#45. Certain people are just saying, 'Look, I'm a businessperson and I have to run a business effectively and I want people who are going to do the job, who have the training and the education and the personality traits - the soft skills.'

William Julius Wilson

#46. Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.

Mary Mihalic

#47. Don't build a team that will fuel your 'ego'. Build a team that has the skills, desire & passion for fueling the 'vision'.

Yvonne Pierre

#48. Business is the school of life. Success in business requires success in living.

Ehab Atalla

#49. Trading is not easy, and it takes years of conscientious practice to master the necessary skills. It also takes developing positive habits to succeed in trading. There is no shortcut to this, and no one should dream about getting rich overnight by stepping into the trading business.

Jody Samuels

#50. Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on!

Louis C.K.

#51. The hardest thing about choosing good names is that it requires good descriptive skills and a shared cultural background. This is a teaching issue rather than a technical, business, or
management issue.

Robert C. Martin

#52. There is no problem you can't take absolute advantage of.

Ehab Atalla

#53. Executing the solution means gaining customer commitment and delivering on your promises

Chris Murray

#54. One of the greatest skills - and gifts - is to focus on a person. Make them feel as though they're the only person in the world.

Rhonda Rhyne

#55. Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#56. There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

Jeff Bezos

#57. If you want to be in business, your friends need to be in business too.

Ehab Atalla

#58. Any idiot can point out a problem. So, bosses do.

Gerry Geek

#59. To succeed in a business project, especially one you're excited about, it helps to think carefully about all the skills you have that could be helpful to others and particularly about the combination of those skills.

Chris Guillebeau

#60. Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth.

Jack Welch

#61. To be a great business person, you must be a great observer.

Ehab Atalla

#62. What is the most overrated skill for an entrepreneur? The most overrated skill is skill. Luck is more important. The entrepreneur gets credit for being this genius, when really he was just at the right place at the right time.

Ken Hendricks

#63. 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

#64. More important than your skills is picking the right business.

Ehab Atalla

#65. Common sense is a skill to learn, and it is the foundation of all good business.

Ehab Atalla

#66. Many business people end up being relationship rich, and referral poor.

Timothy M. Houston

#67. Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges, opens new worlds, heals diseases, carries on the business of the world. Without it taste is useless, and the beauties of literature unobserved.

Robert Aris Willmott

#68. Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.

Janet Evanovich

#69. In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#70. Good decisions can turn into disasters when communicated poorly.

Dianna Booher

#71. A gap in skills and abilities reveal a golden opportunity!

Abhishek Ratna

#72. Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

Kofi Annan

#73. Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.

Silvio Berlusconi

#74. Only business can build a low-carbon economy. Business is all about seeing ideas and growing them. Businesses have the resources, the people, the technical skills to make things happen - and they have the channels to market

Tom DeLay

#75. Great selling involves helping people to make great buying decisions.

Chris Murray

#76. I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.

Michael Jordan

#77. Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas,

Susan Cain

#78. I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.

Christopher Walken

#79. Always consider who you're learning from. Don't listen to people who are not experiencing the success you want.

Ehab Atalla

#80. What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

#81. Developing strong interpersonal relationships by creating lasting connections instead of just passing acquaintances will take your business to a new level.

Farshad Asl

#82. Be a dad. Don't be "Mom's Assistant" ... Be a man ... Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on. Spend time with your kids ... It won't take away your manhood, it will give it to you.

Louis C.K.

#83. Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#84. Happiness at work is not about eliminating all the bad stuff from your job. It's about being happy at work even though some of these bad things are present. It's about building your skills and your energy to fix the problems, and to create more and more positive experiences at work.

Alexander Kjerulf

#85. With more than half the population now checking their account balances more often as a direct result of the downturn, and with more of us comparing prices in virtually every market, it is natural to turn budget management into a skill, an accomplishment, a badge of lifestyle success.

Joe Staton

#86. Our government is committed to helping our young people develop the skills and training they need to succeed. Through our Summer Company program, students can launch a business, become employers, and gain an advantage in the highly competitive global economy - all while still in school.

Brad Duguid

#87. A genuinely humble attitude is one of the greatest skills in business. Because it compels us to LISTEN and LEARN.

Adam Rifkin

#88. In business presentations, positive impressions can help make a sale or win over an audience.

Ian Lamont

#89. There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

Dee Dee Myers

#90. Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you're the best person for the job

Chris Murray

#91. Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates.

Melanne Verveer

#92. I've come to believe that connecting is one of the most important business - and life - skill sets you'll ever learn. Why? Because, flat out, people do business with people they know and like. Careers - in every imaginable field - work the same

Keith Ferrazzi

#93. Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

Bill Walton

#94. Focusing on Earning the Right will have an incredible effect on the success of every single sales call that you will make from this day on.

Chris Murray

#95. But developing relationships with coworkers - your peers, superiors, and subordinates - is incredibly important, perhaps even the most important thing you'll do at work, and this is completely dependent on your communication skills.

Scribendi

#96. I have a theory that sometimes people think they need to talk as much as possible, almost as if talking more equates to knowing more.

Mary Mihalic

#97. A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind.

Angelica Hopes

#98. A shoulder clap is more appropriate in a business setting. But the underlying principle holds: touch more than the majority of people would in the same context. It demonstrates comfort, leadership, and conviction in your communication skills.

Charlie Houpert

#99. Business is where you practice your human skills. It's where you grow.

Andrew Cherng

#100. There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

Rick Santorum