There is only one boss. The customer.
Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.
Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success – and success is in direct proportion to our service.
I’m working full time on my job and part time on my fortune.
Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs.
There are only two things in a business that make money – innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.
If you add the value, you will become the brand. Find a way to add more value than anyone else does.
If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.
Find something you love to do. If you don’t make money at it, at least you love going to work.
Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort. It’s not about what you can dream of. That’s easy. It’s about whether or not it’s important enough to you to do the work to be ready to be successful in that business.
I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep.
I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.
No one hangs up the phone until the customer buys or dies.
There’s no nobility in poverty.
Don’t wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.
The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.
Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.
It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.
We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly made money by thus “following the market”. We do not hesitate to declare this approach as fallacious as it is popular.
Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.