Quotes of the Day

The Foundations of Business Success: 1. Think continually in terms of increasing productivity. 2. Think in terms of customer satisfaction all the time. 3. Think in terms of profitability all the time. 4. Think in terms of quality all the time. 5. Think in terms of people building. Spend time with the most important people in your business. Ask them for their opinions. Compliment on them on their accomplishments. Take them out for coffee or lunch. 6. Organizational Development. 7. Continuous innovation. Have a company suggestion box. Offer a financial prize ($5 or $10) each week for the best idea to increase sales or cut costs. Be a leader, not a follower. [2004] - Brian Tracy

The best way to begin an email is just to jump right in with no salutation at all. Avoiding a salutation gets the highest response rates on OkCupid. But if skipping a salutation feels too strange to you, OkCupid found that "How's it going?" "What's up?" and "Howdy" ranked high as greetings in its study. [2013] - Laurie Davis

Here is the game plan when you are guilty. Dead wrong. Caught red-handed. 1. Listen calmly until your accuser finished, and then say, "I am happy you brought that up." 2. Proceed by saying, "You are right," and repeat his accusation word for word. No ifs, ands, or buts--and no changing his precise words. 3. Pause. 4. Then, and only then, with no defensiveness, tell your reasoning. If there is absolutely no rationalization for what you did, tell him what you have learned from it. [2009] - Leil Lowndes

Reference USA is a premier source of business information that is well designed to be easily data mined. Currently there is information on over 43 million businesses in the USA alone. There is also information on nearly two million Canadian companies. Two golden nuggets: 1. Management Directory. 2. Competitor Report. [2016] - Dan Quillen

If you lower a woman's self-esteem, she will seek validation from you. If you make a woman jealous, she will become more attracted to you. [2005] - Neil Strauss