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Influential Business Quotes for

Entrepreneurs

From Acclaimed Business Leaders

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On Employees

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…effective executives do not start out by looking at weaknesses. You cannot build performance on

weaknesses. You can build only on strengths. Make weaknesses

irrelevant.

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Giving people self confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do because

then they will act.

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The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and

do is important – and then get out of their way while they do it.

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On Customers

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The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth’s most customer

centric company.

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For something this complicated, it’s really hard to design products by focus

groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what

they want until you show it to them.

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Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your

ability to deliver the right story to the others.

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Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.

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A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they

don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions

without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human

experience, the better design we will have.

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On Business Priorities

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Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed,

nothing else can be managed.

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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation. All the rest are

costs.

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On Marketing

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Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or

not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.

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The aim of marketing is to know and understand the

customer so well the product or service fits him and sells

itself.

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Products that are remarkable get talked about.

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In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being

invisible.

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A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person.

You can earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

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Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations

assemble the tribe.

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On Dealing With Change

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Within five years, if you’re in the same business you are in now, you’re going to be out

of business.

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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

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The best way to predict the future is to create it.

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Change, BEFORE you have to.

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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means

plunging part of the company into total confusion

for a while.

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On Experimentation

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We were willing to go down a bunch of dark passageways

and occasionally we find something that really works.

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What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

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On Learning

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We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process

of keeping abreast of change. And the most

pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

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That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to

work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there,

you can move mountains.

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An organization’s ability to learn and translate that

learning into action rapidly is the ultimate competitive

advantage.

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You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them

looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in

your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has

never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

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On Initiative

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The easiest thing is to react.

The second easiest is to respond.

But the hardest thing is to initiate.

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I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-

successful ones is pure perseverance.

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The entrepreneur always searches for change,

responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

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Every interaction, every assignment, is a chance to

make a change, a chance to delight or surprise or to

touch someone.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone

else's life.

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On Competition

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If you don’t have a competitive advantage,

don’t compete.

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Key Takeaways

• Employees, customers are #1

• People focus

• Make a difference attitude

• Necessity to adapting to change

• Continuous learning

• Be persistent

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Final Thoughts

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Actively manage your company’s culture based on

these mindsets, skills and core values

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Never stop the learning process

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About Dr. Schoultz

Dr. Schoultz has thirty five years of business development, marketing, technology, and business operations experience.

He served as VP / President of Distribution Technologies, a company he helped to found and grow to a 700 M + / year market leader.

Dr. Schoultz Ph. D. is from the University of Virginia.

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Thank You !

[email protected]

• Twitter: mikeschoultz

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