“Shape your mindsets or your mindsets will shape you.”
“The number one way culture is shaped is by what leaders model.”
“The system you work in does not tell you who you get to be; you decide who you get to be.”
“Poor practices are blunting email marketing’s effectiveness and keeping its ROI from being truly awesome.”
“What s Management up to? I whispered to Bennett. My guess is a new acronym, he whispered. Departmental Unification Management Business. He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. D.U.M.B.”
“International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.”
“A small profit it better than a big loss”
“To be a leader one has to have followers. To get others to follow is a skill, not a command.”
“The beginning of change doesn’t come from motivation and dangling carrots. It begins with being clear about what you want to get away from.”
“Every telecomm company is as big a corporate welfare bum as you could ask for. Try to imagine what it would cost at market rates to go around to every house in every town in every country and pay for the right to block traffic and dig up roads and erect poles and string wires and pierce every home with cabling. The regulatory fiat that allows these companies to get their networks up and running is worth hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars. If phone companies want to operate in the “free market,” then let them: the FCC could give them 60 days to get all their rotten copper out of our dirt, or we’ll buy it from them at the going scrappage rates. Then, let’s hold an auction for the right to be the next big telecomm company, on one condition: in exchange for using the public’s rights-of-way, you have to agree to connect us to the people we want to talk to, and vice-versa, as quickly and efficiently as you can.”
“The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.”
“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.”
“At the heart of excessive individualism is a broken heart”
“A good golfer’s métier is his or her golfing skill. A great golfer’s métier is his or her golfing skill, coupled with the mastery of good sportsmanship, rendering him or her an ambassador for the sport.”
“I don,t just want success for my self ,I want my success to benefit others . Osman Gulum”
“Business is all about solving people s problems - at a profit.”
“What I don t get about traditional publishing is that an author creates a work that they think is good enough to be published. They then have to spend their valuable time begging others to exploit them to point where they end up with a 5% stake in THEIR business. What kind of a screwed of business model is that?”