#rain

A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

Sarita's been so busy exercising her brain that she hasn't had time for her heart, the poor thing. ↗

— Manil Suri

#heart #business

View a Copycat as a Stray Cat.. They stray through the day hunting down prey. They pick up a scent through steel or cement. They act shy yet their sly. They get around traps, they escape with the bait. When you realize your loss and feel the hard cost without a peep nor a sign, they stand smiling across the finish line. ↗

— Victoria Addino

#beware #business-management-training #competitor #enemies-and-opposition #ideas-are-power

Never Underestimate. Just as in any other negotiation, watching before acting is as important as listening before speaking. It's doubly important in China, however, where customs are time-honored and breaches of protocol not so quickly forgiven. ↗

— Irl M. Davis

#business #business-culture #china #china-culture #global

No matter what your reason for wanting to start your own business, developing the foundation is the same. Laying a solid foundation for you business will provide you with a road map to follow as you build your business. As you work through the Start a Business Step-by-Step Workbook you will define the company’s mission, decide what business entity is right for your business, name your business, determine the pricing for your products or services, formulate your financial projections, define your competitors, survey consumers regarding your products or services, determine the marketing methods right for your business and more. ↗

— Jeanne A. Estes

#business-plan #business-start-up #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurship-training

Business of all kinds, over the centuries, had atrophied certain sense receptors and areas of the human brain, so that for most of the fellows taking part, the present-day rituals were no more, and even maybe a little less, than hollow mummery. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#business

Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold. ↗

— Jim Holden

#business-advice #sales #sales-advice #sales-training #business

In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded. ↗

— John Dobbin

#brain #close #everyone #eyes #good

At that point where you have decided to upgrade from aspiration to expectation and have begun to visualize an outcome, something incredibly important has happened, you have committed to the process of change. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#change

Nothing before you counts," he said. "And I can't even imagine an after." She shook her head. "Don't." "What?" "Don't talk about after." "I just meant that... I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too.... That sounds bad, like a death threat or something. What I'm trying to say is, you're it. This is it for me. ↗

— Rainbow Rowell

#rainbow-rowell #swoons #death