Archive for the ‘Businessman’ Category

April 2nd, 2012 Author Types, Authors, Businessman, J No Comments »

Jeff Bezos

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
Jeff Bezos

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

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.
Jeff Bezos

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
Jeff Bezos

But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.
Jeff Bezos

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Jeff Bezos

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
Jeff Bezos

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Jeff Bezos

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
Jeff Bezos

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.
Jeff Bezos

April 1st, 2012 Author Types, Authors, Businessman, N No Comments »

Neil Bogart

If you hype something and it succeeds, you’re a genius – it wasn’t a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.
Neil Bogart

February 8th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, B, Businessman No Comments »

Bradley A. Blakeman

The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda.
Bradley A. Blakeman

We are at war with enemies that still have the intent to do further damage to Americans at home and abroad.
Bradley A. Blakeman

For every expert that says humans are the cause of “climate change” there are 10 more who say we aren’t.
Bradley A. Blakeman

February 8th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, Businessman, C No Comments »

Conrad Black

I don’t go around trying to stir up foreign wars.
Conrad Black

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That’s a flameout I could get used to.
Conrad Black

I do not at all have the mind of a bully… in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.
Conrad Black

 

January 20th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, Businessman, K No Comments »

Ken Blanchard

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
Ken Blanchard

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I’ve had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.
Ken Blanchard

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.
Ken Blanchard

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Ken Blanchard

Don’t quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
Ken Blanchard

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
Ken Blanchard

In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people… they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
Ken Blanchard

Too many leaders act as if the sheep… their people… are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
Ken Blanchard

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.
Ken Blanchard

I never use notes, they interfere with me.
Ken Blanchard

January 5th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, Businessman, G No Comments »

Gary Bettman

My message to the kids and our fans is hockey’s a great game. There’s a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don’t give up on the game. It’s too good.
Gary Bettman

If you want to know how I feel, I’ll summarize it in one word – terrible.
Gary Bettman

 

December 17th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Businessman, W No Comments »

William Bernbach

Our job is to sell our clients’ merchandise… not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.
William Bernbach

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.
William Bernbach

Today’s smartest advertising style is tomorrow’s corn.
William Bernbach

We don’t ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea.
William Bernbach

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
William Bernbach

Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.
William Bernbach

Forget words like ‘hard sell’ and ‘soft sell.’ That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you’re saying it like it’s never been said before.
William Bernbach

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.
William Bernbach

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.
William Bernbach

You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You’ve got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don’t feel it, nothing will happen.
William Bernbach

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
William Bernbach

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic.
William Bernbach

Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed… but dull?
William Bernbach

No matter how skillful you are, you can’t invent a product advantage that doesn’t exist. And if you do, and it’s just a gimmick, it’s going to fall apart anyway.
William Bernbach

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.
William Bernbach

Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.
William Bernbach

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
William Bernbach

Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.
William Bernbach

June 15th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, B, Businessman No Comments »

Bo Bennett

When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.
Bo Bennett

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.
Bo Bennett

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.
Bo Bennett

We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.
Bo Bennett

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
Bo Bennett

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
Bo Bennett

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.
Bo Bennett

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.
Bo Bennett

Martial arts is not about fighting; it’s about building character.
Bo Bennett

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don’t put them both together by claiming you “don’t have the time”.
Bo Bennett

One’s work usually occupies more than half of one’s waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
Bo Bennett

Peeves do not make very good pets.
Bo Bennett

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
Bo Bennett

Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.
Bo Bennett

Avoiding the phrase “I don’t have time…”, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.
Bo Bennett

Be friendly to everyone. Those who deserve it the least need it the most.
Bo Bennett

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.
Bo Bennett

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.
Bo Bennett

Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.
Bo Bennett

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
Bo Bennett

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.
Bo Bennett

Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.
Bo Bennett

Value people on their potential, not on their history.
Bo Bennett

It’s not people who resent successful people; it’s resentful people who resent successful people.
Bo Bennett

May 13th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Businessman, C No Comments »

Charlie Bell

I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.
Charlie Bell

The biggest threat to McDonald’s lies within – and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers.
Charlie Bell

Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are.
Charlie Bell

There are good days and there are bad days, and I’ve had my share of both.
Charlie Bell

May 4th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Businessman, L No Comments »

Lord Beaverbrook

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.
Lord Beaverbrook

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.
Lord Beaverbrook