Just some quotes and sayings I have running on my picture frame every day...they all mean something to me and I am sure will others...gives my inspiration and hope...enjoy :)
2. “ The first thing that super successful
business owners do every morning is the
most important, most critical thing for the
success of their business...it’s marketing.”
3. “It’s nice to be important,
but it’s more important to
be nice.”
4. “The rich don’t work for
money. The rich have
money work for them”
15. “The snow goose need not bathe
to make itself white. Neither
need you do anything but be
yourself.”
16. “If a man examine carefully his
thoughts he will be surprised to
find how much he lives in the
future. His well-being is always
ahead”
17. “Are you a marketer or are
you a doer? It matters. A
lot.”
18. “What other people say about you carries
about 500 times as much weight as what
you say about yourself – so use
testimonials in your marketing”
19. The main management skills needed for success are:
1. The management of cash flow
2. The management of systems (including yourself and
time with family)
3. The management of people
20. “No one ever got rich having a
lie-in or watching TV – you’ve got
to work...really hard.”
21. “You must know the
difference between an
asset and a liability, and
buy assets”
22. “ Attitude is everything,
attitude is the foundation
of everything.”
23. “Attitude is a little thing that
makes a big difference.”
24. “Thousands of your potential customers,
people that live in your area, are on
Twitter and Facebook today, you’d have to
be incredibly arrogant or a complete idiot
to not even try to connect with them.”
25. “If you want super-success in
business, you’ve got to get better
at getting more stuff done”
26. “Act weak when strong, act
strong when weak. Know when
to bluff”
27. “ Most people in your industry or
sector are wrong...about
everything.”
34. “It’s not your customers’ job to remember
to do business with you. It’s your job to
remind them and that’s why your database
is your most valuable asset, bar none.”
59. Don’t say: “I can’t afford it”
Think: “How can I afford it?”
60. “ The internet is here to stay, baby, and
super successful business owners all
embrace the Web and use it to help them
grow their profits, BUT 90% of local
businesses are doing nowhere near
enough to exploit the potential of the
Web.”
61. “Do not follow where the path
may lead. Go instead where
there is no path and leave a
trail.”
63. “The single biggest thing you can do
to step change the growth of your
business is to learn from someone
who’s bloody good and has done
what you want to do.”
64. “ In most businesses, 20% of
customers will pay more for a
premium product or service IF
you make it available to them.”
69. “Overcome cynicism. It often takes
great courage to not let rumours and
talk of doom and gloom affect your
doubts and fears. Cynics never win.”
70. “ No one will ever care about
your business as much as you do.
Don’t forget that-ever!.”
71. “There’s no honourable way to
kill, no gentle way to destroy.
There is nothing good in war.
Except its ending.”
72. “Gold comes gladly and in increasing quantity to
any man who will put by not less than one-tenth
of his earnings to create an estate for his future
and that of his family.”
Which translates:
The more gold (money) you can accumulate, the more readily it
comes to you and in increased quantities. The gold which you save
earns more, and it’s earnings earn more.
73. “Gold labors dilligently and contentedly for the
wise owner who finds profitable employment for
it, multiplying as the flocks of the field”
Which translates:
Gold is a willing worker. It is ever eager to multiply when
opportunity presents itself. To every man who has a store of gold
set by, opportunity comes for its most profitable use
74. “Gold clings to the protection of the cautious
owner who invests it under the advice of men
wise in its handling”
Which translates:
Gold clings to the cautious owner, as it flees the careless owner.
The man who seeks advice of men wise in its handling, soon learns
not to jeopardize his treasure, but to preserve it in safety.
75. “Gold slips away from the man who invests it in
business or purposes with which he is not familiar
or which are not approved by those skilled in its
keep”
Which translates:
The wise, is who invests his treasures under the advice of men
skilled in the ways of gold. The inexperienced owner who trusts his
own judgement, and invests in a business to which he is not
familiar, pays with his own treasure.
76. “Gold flees the man who would force it to
impossible earnings or who follows the alluring
advice of tricksters and schemers or who trusts it
to his own inexperience and romantic desires in
investment”
Which translates:
Heed the wise man for they know the risks that lurk behind every
plan to make great wealth suddenly