Business Value Quotes

#1. You cannot manage risk, or for that matter, build a risk management capability without first understanding the "business value of risk management.

Pearl Zhu

#2. 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

#3. Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft.

Satya Nadella

#4. Clear content, simple navigation and answers to customer questions have the biggest impact on business value. Advanced technology matters much less.

Jakob Nielsen

#5. Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value.

Pearl Zhu

#6. No Executive can value the worth of others unless he first learns to value himself

John M. Capozzi

#7. Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

Graham Greene

#8. Whenever one or more components of a company's business model changes, new business models are created for supporting companies. The changes might involve niches served, new marketing angles or improved value propositions.

Marc Ostrofsky

#9. 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

#10. The goal of agility measure is to keep track of the most value-driven factors to lead business success.

Pearl Zhu

#11. Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing.

David Brier

#12. We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.

Jesse Helms

#13. Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth
stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality.

Amah Lambert

#14. In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.

Jack Valenti

#15. With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.

P.T. Barnum

#16. Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them. Social media is a way to engage customers, not to give your business a 'shout out.'

Carol Roth

#17. Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the complete season is so much more valuable, in our business model, than having last night's episode.

Ted Sarandos

#18. Gold is a commodity; over the long run, as we look back, it has not been a good investment. You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.

Michael Lee-Chin

#19. The more people you help and the more value you create, the more your business will fly - and the quicker you'll win.

Robin S. Sharma

#20. You may create a inspirational & visually resplendent strategy map but without accountability its value is specious

Paul R. Niven

#21. You listen to the street traders any morning. They don't shout, 'Nearly-fresh oranges, only slightly squashy, reasonable value,' do they? No, they shout, 'Git chore orinjes, they're luvverly.' Good business sense." He

Terry Pratchett

#22. Options are often an overlooked form of value - flexibility is one of the Three Universal Currencies (discussed later). Find a way to give people more flexibility, and you may discover a viable business model.

Josh Kaufman

#23. In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.

Doc Hastings

#24. Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value, any value, to anybody, to somebody, and watch that value compound into a career.

James Altucher

#25. The reason why many clients don't value design is because haven't had a designer prove to them the value of it. You need to prove it to clients who've hired a bunch of shitty designers and their business has not been that successful. When they hire a good designer, they see the difference.

Jessica Hische

#26. After more than two decades here, I know that kindness is not a value that's encouraged. It's often seen as a weakness. Instead, the culture encourages keeping your head down, minding your own business, and never letting yourself be vulnerable.

Dan Gediman

#27. Your dreams can earn you money and provision when you don't only have fans, but customers.

Israelmore Ayivor

#28. Don't buy value-added. Be the one adding value. Create goodwill.

Ehab Atalla

#29. A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.

John Mackey

#30. All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

Charles Gates Jr.

#31. 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

#32. Simply stated, the value of a business today is the sum of all the money it will make in the future.

Peter Thiel

#33. Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.

Robert Herjavec

#34. I wear two hats. The one is business and increasing my shareholders' value; the other is social responsibility.

Guler Sabanci

#35. In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.

Michael Milken

#36. Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.

Mike Stackpole

#37. DevOps shows how we optimize the IT value stream, converting business needs into capabilities and services that provide value for our customers.

Gene Kim

#38. I believe our philosophy of conscious capitalism will eventually be widely adopted primarily because it is a better way to do business, and it creates more total value in the world for all of its stakeholders.

John Mackey

#39. I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

Nat King Cole

#40. Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come from just the increase in terms of number of users but also how we continue to enhance the value of our platform for our users.

Victor Koo

#41. Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies, or go out of business.

Alex Berenson

#42. Mr. Market does not always price stocks the way an appraiser or a private buyer would value a business. Instead, when stocks are going up, he happily pays more than their objective value; and, when they are going down, he is desperate to dump them for less than their true worth.

Benjamin Graham

#43. Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you'll find it that much easier to convince potential investors, partners and employees, too.

Eric Ries

#44. Everyone isn't going to embrace your value, but that doesn't mean you need to go and change your price.

Stephan Labossiere

#45. Business can constitute an enormous force for goodness in society. Through its commitments to corporate citizenship and to the principles of the UNGC, the global business community can continue to create and deliver value to society.

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

#46. Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE.

Fran Tarkenton

#47. The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.

Warren Buffett

#48. The only thing I would say is, I think there's a lot of future value in Blackberry, but without experienced people who have run this type of business, and without a strategic plan, it would be really challenging.

John Sculley

#49. Visibility without Value is Vanity

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#50. Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share.

Ginni Rometty

#51. Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has provided great economics that allows us to build the servers, hire the employees, create value.

Eric Schmidt

#52. When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#53. I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business

Richard Branson

#54. Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.

Larry Ellison

#55. The real value - and the real effort - lies in helping business managers identify how to change the business and then helping them play their roles in implementing those changes.

Mark Schwartz

#56. Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.

Bill Gates

#57. This has always been a small agency with a big mission. But these days, especially, we have to stand up every day, deliver value into the hands of small-business owners and get taxpayers the biggest bang for their buck so that we can help these job creators do what they need to do.

Karen Mills

#58. Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices

Warren Buffett

#59. Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal.

Mark Cuban

#60. The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.

Noam Chomsky

#61. A business model describes how your company creates, delivers and captures value.

Steve Blank

#62. Yes, I have a good sense of humor to sort of last a long time in show business, and I think to be able to find comedic value in who you are and the people that you work is always a good thing.

Jane Krakowski

#63. The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.

Warren Buffett

#64. People in a process culture understand how the concept of an end-to-end business process provides value to clients and how their individual roles impact that value.

Peter Franz

#65. Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.

Bill Gurley

#66. The television commercial has oriented business away from making products of value and toward making consumers feel valuable, which means that the business of business has now become pseudo-therapy. The consumer is a patient assured by psycho-dramas.

Neil Postman

#67. Business intelligence is essentially timely, accurate, high-value, and actionable business insights, and the work processes and technologies used to obtain them.

Swain Scheps

#68. One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.

Jay Chiat

#69. This use of advertising - to add a subjective value to the product - becomes increasingly important as the trends in our technology lead to competing products becoming more and more the same.

James Webb Young

#70. I have no ego. There is no way you can have a big ego and survive in this [show]business. You can't learn if you think no one else has anything to say that's of value.

Jennifer Lopez

#71. At some point, practicality requires that you reach out to people in the business. You have to take care of business if you value your work.

Sefi Atta

#72. The business of selling is not just about matching viable solutions to the customers that require them. It's equally about managing the change process the customer will need to go through to implement the solution and achieve the value promised by the solution

Jeff Thull

#73. when you have been in business as long as I have you will be inclined to put a pretty high value on loyalty. It is the one commodity that hasn't any market value, and it's the one that you can't pay too much for.

George Horace Lorimer

#74. if you want to create and capture lasting value, don't build an undifferentiated commodity business.

Peter Thiel

#75. Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad ... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.

Peter Senge

#76. The number one idea is to view a stock as an ownership of the business and to judge the staying quality of the business in terms of its competitive advantage. Look for more value in terms of discounted future cash-flow than you are paying for. Move only when you have an advantage.

Charlie Munger

#77. I'm in the business of value judgments .

Tucker Carlson

#78. We at Sun Cellular will definitely continue our consistent business policy of offering the best value for consumers' money. Yes, we shall offer the most affordable but reliable service.

John Gokongwei

#79. The world is full of people who remain in relationships that they realize they have no business in. Yet, they stay, hoping and praying for change, believing that the other person will eventually appreciate them and recognize their value.

Zane

#80. Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people whom you come in contact everyday.

Orison Swett Marden

#81. Value added is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.

Peter Drucker

#82. If a measurement matters at all, it is because it must have some conceivable effect on decisions and behaviour. If we can't identify a decision that could be affected by a proposed measurement and how it could change those decisions, then the measurement simply has no value

Douglas W. Hubbard

#83. Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap. No value is destroyed for you - only for the original owner.

Ida Tarbell

#84. Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.

John Maeda

#85. A COnNeCtworker is a networker who is always taking into account the needs of others. Approaching people with a service attitude to bring them value and build a relationship. Then when that person is looking for a reliable service provider in a particular industry, they will pick the COnNeCtworker.

Michele Jennae

#86. More on this in chapters 7 and 8.) Getting Value from Entrepreneurial Talent We three authors come from a business environment where the employment alliance

Reid Hoffman

#87. In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.

Anderson Cooper

#88. Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

John Cage

#89. The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.

Dan Abrams

#90. Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction

Wallace D. Wattles

#91. Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be felt with the soul.

Enrique Penalosa

#92. You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.

Dan Levitan

#93. We decided that it was imperative for us to use our resources to create a new paradigm: one in which business operates to add value to society - without compromising the well-being of future generations.

Joseph Mailman

#94. Whatever business you're in - it doesn't matter - it's going to commoditize over time. It's going to devalue. You've got to keep moving it to a higher value.

Ginni Rometty

#95. Just add value to what you're offering if you really want to win new business, but don't reduce your price.

Carlos Castillo

#96. 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

#97. The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

Brian Tracy

#98. Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.

Brent Weeks

#99. The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.

Warren Buffett

#100. The value any business creates, listed or not, is determined by the rate at which it deploys incremental capital. And

Lawrence A. Cunningham