Top 100 Value Business Quotes
#1. Just add value to what you're offering if you really want to win new business, but don't reduce your price.
Carlos Castillo
#2. I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.
Andy Grove
#3. In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than their alternatives. Subsidizing inefficient jobs is costly, wastes resources, and weakens our economy.
Charles Koch
#4. I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.
Warren Buffett
#5. Loyalty is earned with friendliness, responsiveness, ease of doing business, fair value, and the good feeling customers get when they call you, visit you, or interact with you.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#6. If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business model; it might be enough to defray the cost of open access. I just want to create the infrastructure that makes movement and sharing easier.
John Wilbanks
#7. If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: "This can't be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving."
Bill Gates
#8. When it comes to getting a job or client, congruent value is aligning the employer's need with your value add.
Richie Norton
#9. You can bring tremendous value to your business, your customers, and yourself by becoming proficient at bringing in new business.
Mike Weinberg
#10. So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.
Sam Altman
#11. The value any business creates, listed or not, is determined by the rate at which it deploys incremental capital. And
Lawrence A. Cunningham
#12. The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
Brian Tracy
#13. 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
#14. The lesson here is clear: If you want people to understand that you value their contributions and that they are important, the recognition and praise you provide must have meaning that is specific to each individual.
Tom Rath
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Clear content, simple navigation and answers to customer questions have the biggest impact on business value. Advanced technology matters much less.
Jakob Nielsen
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
John Cage
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.
John Maeda
#26. If beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, value is in the mind of the consumer.
Michele Jennae
#27. There is a natural link between the effective running of my businesses and the effective direction of philanthropic funds. I apply business principles to my philanthropic work so that maximum value is given to the causes I support.
Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi
#28. What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder value to understand the needs and fears of other stakeholders and their communities.
Juan Somavia
#29. Chaos is NOT a condition of doing business.
Karen Martin
#30. The opposite of value is a commodity item with little or no perceived value - which means people are not seeking it out and when they do, it's merely one of the many choices (so very likely the cheapest offering will get the sale).
David Brier
#31. the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.
Peter Thiel
#32. Business is about creating VALUE for people. And earning money is the OUTCOME of creating value for people!
Kevin J. Donaldson
#33. You can't help everyone and most critically you can't help people who don't need you or see the value you have to offer
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#34. The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
Seth Godin
#36. The decisions of citizens either in matters of private business or political life of the nation, are directly related to the prevailing value system of the nation
Sunday Adelaja
#37. Service is not something you do. It is something you are.
Stella Payton
#38. A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.
Stephen Young
#39. 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
#40. Once America's CEOs get back to the business of growing their companies rather than growing their share prices, shareholder value will take care of itself, and all Americans will share in the higher wages and other benefits of a renewed era of economic growth.
Nick Hanauer
#41. I am very lucky to consider many of my business associates friends. Some are closer than others, but I respect and value all of them.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#42. You must value the business in order to value the stock.
Charlie Munger
#43. Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value.
Pearl Zhu
#44. It also reflects a tendency in our society to focus on negatives. Doctors, for instance, study illness, not health. Business leaders analyse failure, not success. Economists study cost, not value. Philosophers mostly debate original sin, not original blessing.
Robert Holden
#45. Most Business Processes Are 90% Waste and 10% Value-Added Work
Jeffrey K. Liker
#46. Design thinking can be described as a discipline that uses the designer's sensibility and methods to match people's needs with what is technologically feasible and what a viable business strategy can convert into customer value and market opportunity.
Thomas Lockwood
#47. You have the legs and other also have it; they have the brain and you have it! Stop thinking you can't transact the business that others can. If you do, you are raising your inflation rate!
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. When I started at Bloomingdale's as a buyer, Alexander's was a discounter across the street, and every time Alexander's had something that we had at Bloomingdale's, we'd have to meet price. I didn't really want to be in a business where I had no control over my inventory, the value of my inventory.
Mickey Drexler
#49. Creating value is an inherently cooperative process, capturing value is inherently competitive.
Barry Nalebuff
#50. Brand growth and dominance is created by having the highest brand value, not the lowest price tag.
David Brier
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. DevOps shows how we optimize the IT value stream, converting business needs into capabilities and services that provide value for our customers.
Gene Kim
#59. 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
#60. I wear two hats. The one is business and increasing my shareholders' value; the other is social responsibility.
Guler Sabanci
#61. Simply stated, the value of a business today is the sum of all the money it will make in the future.
Peter Thiel
#62. 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
#63. Don't buy value-added. Be the one adding value. Create goodwill.
Ehab Atalla
#64. The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.
Warren Buffett
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. You cannot manage risk, or for that matter, build a risk management capability without first understanding the "business value of risk management.
Pearl Zhu
#68. 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
#69. You may create a inspirational & visually resplendent strategy map but without accountability its value is specious
Paul R. Niven
#70. 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
#71. With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.
P.T. Barnum
#72. 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
#73. The goal of agility measure is to keep track of the most value-driven factors to lead business success.
Pearl Zhu
#74. 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
#75. Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.
Graham Greene
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. if you want to create and capture lasting value, don't build an undifferentiated commodity business.
Peter Thiel
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. No Executive can value the worth of others unless he first learns to value himself
John M. Capozzi
#90. Business intelligence is essentially timely, accurate, high-value, and actionable business insights, and the work processes and technologies used to obtain them.
Swain Scheps
#91. 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
#92. The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.
Noam Chomsky
#93. 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
#94. Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices
Warren Buffett
#95. 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
#96. Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.
Bill Gates
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business
Richard Branson
#100. 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
