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Wer mit den Haien schwimmt, der darf nicht bluten. Aber, mein Freund, Du blutest gerade. Und zwar heftig

We're still family-owned, which keeps life a whole lot simpler. When my wife and kids and I decide to make a business move, we don't have to ask Wall Street about it.

We've all seen it. A #startup begins with a #dream, a #passion to do something others have missed or overlooked.

We thrive when we are pulled by the future, not pushed by the past.

We should responsibly carry out the business that God has assigned for us to do

We would pay the bills. We would pretend to be high-class. This was compromise. This, I guessed, was business.

What could you do if you valued yourself more? Whatever you think your worth in life and business, double it. Then double it again.

We wrote Shift Ahead to document how the smartest companies and organizations shift their strategies in order to stay relevant in the face of swift and exponential changes in everything from technology to the forces of globalization, from politics and culture, from consumer tastes to human behavior. We wanted to find out how they shift ahead – how they stayed ahead of the curve, the competition, and the evolving requirements of their customers – given the barrage of evolving challenges.

What are you doing to serve your customers a little more every day?

Whatever achievements and successes I've had didn't happen overnight. It is all a product of guidance, hard work, careful planning, and intense, passionate execution over many years. (p. 69)

What drives winning? Attitude? Vision? Persistence? Hard work? Discipline? Or is it a combination of above and more.

What does a customer need? Ask him “What keeps you busy now?” and think about how to help the customer avoid doing what he does now. A customer does not want to keep doing what he currently does. A customer needs something that allows him to avoid a current activity.

Whatever begun with planning, ends in a victory.

Whatever business you have, if you truly believe in what you’re doing, you’re capable of going any place and doing anything. Pursue Your Dreams!

What had once been my reason for being now felt like a job. During my months away, I did a lot of thinking about my personal “why.” I knew why I had started the company, and why people joined me in the early days. And I still believed in our mission and the impact we were making. But I was no longer sure why I wanted—or even if I did want—to continue driving the business forward.

What if business was the adventure of living?

What is rational in the practice of thoughtful medicine is impractical for the system.

What is my business in this? Oh yea, it is my business. It is not just my business, it is my calling.

What kind of impression are you leaving on people? Activate the ability for your first impression and last impression!

Whatever is supposed to make you rich is well within your reach

What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life

What separates those who build exceptional lives from others, is the way they use their time.

What is the “Once upon a time” of your brand story? Ask yourself this: “How does what I’m building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow?

What is the true cost of a purchasing decision that goes wrong?

What’s the best home-based business opportunity in the world today? Without a doubt, it’s network marketing. Like it or hate it, network marketing has created more millionaires than any other industry in history. There’s just one problem — it can be hard if you’re not used to it!

What's on your billboard?

What strengthens my résumé is more responsibility — not a bigger title.

What we at first deem useless might end up being the next bestseller. It can be the product's novelty, fun factor or sheer stupidity. Whatever the case, just remember there's always room on the market for an original business idea.

What would be the natural thing? A man goes to college. He works as he wants to work, he plays as he wants to play, he exercises for the fun of the game, he makes friends where he wants to make them, he is held in by no fear of criticism above, for the class ahead of him has nothing to do with his standing in his own class. Everything he does has the one vital quality: it is spontaneous. That is the flame of youth itself. Now, what really exists?" "...I say our colleges to-day are business colleges—Yale more so, perhaps, because it is more sensitively American. Let's take up any side of our life here. Begin with athletics. What has become of the natural, spontaneous joy of contest? Instead you have one of the most perfectly organized business systems for achieving a required result—success. Football is driving, slavish work; there isn't one man in twenty who gets any real pleasure out of it. Professional baseball is not more rigorously disciplined and driven than our 'amateur' teams. Add the crew and the track. Play, the fun of the thing itself, doesn't exist; and why? Because we have made a business out of it all, and the college is scoured for material, just as drummers are sent out to bring in business. "Take another case. A man has a knack at the banjo or guitar, or has a good voice. What is the spontaneous thing? To meet with other kindred spirits in informal gatherings in one another's rooms or at the fence, according to the whim of the moment. Instead what happens? You have our university musical clubs, thoroughly professional organizations. If you are material, you must get out and begin to work for them—coach with a professional coach, make the Apollo clubs, and, working on, some day in junior year reach the varsity organization and go out on a professional tour. Again an organization conceived on business lines. "The same is true with the competition for our papers: the struggle for existence outside in a business world is not one whit more intense than the struggle to win out in the News or Lit competition. We are like a beef trust, with every by-product organized, down to the last possibility. You come to Yale—what is said to you? 'Be natural, be spontaneous, revel in a certain freedom, enjoy a leisure you'll never get again, browse around, give your imagination a chance, see every one, rub wits with every one, get to know yourself.' "Is that what's said? No. What are you told, instead? 'Here are twenty great machines that need new bolts and wheels. Get out and work. Work harder than the next man, who is going to try to outwork you. And, in order to succeed, work at only one thing. You don't count—everything for the college.' Regan says the colleges don't represent the nation; I say they don't even represent the individual.

What would you choose if you knew you couldn't fail?

what you don't know will cost you.

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organisations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work, every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you overorganize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness — they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

What you hold in your consciousness tends to manifest—the inner game runs the outer game.

When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdown.

When an invading force crosses a river in its onward march, do not advance to meet it in mid-stream.  It will be best to let half the army get across, and then deliver your attack.

When building a business, seek multiple yet complementary revenue streams. This will help you survive the ups & downs of the economy.

When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and not campaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars.

Whenever in doubt, always look for the financial incentive." Law of the Hired Gun

When I ask entrepreneurs their major problems, many just quickly say; LACK OF FINANCIAL CAPITAL. Yes, this is a problem for some but not a problem for many who think it is a problem. What most ENTREPRENEURS need are business MENTORS, COACHES AND COUNSELORS.

When I see an arrogant man, I see one less competitor.

When it comes to money, ignorance is NOT bliss. What you don't know CAN hurt you.

When it comes to politics, most things can be resolved with a kind word, a simple smile and a solid handshake. And if these won't do, there's always business. For business is great for peace. And peace is great for business.

When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you’re not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn’t be kept in the dark and fed a pile of...well, you get the idea.

When I was 15, a well off man told me the secret to success was golf. It took me until I became 30 to realize it was the true. Today, you couldn't convince me otherwise.

When I was bartering to gain clients, I was self-sabotaging my business. I wasn’t making money, and the promised “exchange of advertising” wasn’t helping to grow my business.

When I was a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; " that business minded people can meet there easily!" Your dream must be situated where they can meet people!

When kids come on the dance floor it’s time for elders to go to the bed.

When making important decisions, seek multiple sources and authentic data points. Look at a scenario from different perspectives. The truth will emerge more readily.

When only one party makes a profit that's robbery when all parties make profit that's business.

When Opportunity meets Preparation she greets her with open arms and they both say in unison, "Let's do this!