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The quotes is credited to Ndubueze Endie Umunna. The Quotes: • The most important element in business Success is sales. Nothing happens until a sale takes place. • If you are not making sales, that is, if people are not exchanging your product for cash, you are not in business. • Being bankrupt and being broke are not the same thing. Let there be light! • Your customers do not care how much you know until they know how much you care. • The first rule of building a product is : "Do not build a product; Solve a problem". • Nigerian startups don't die. They just evaporate. The reason is because they extol enthusiasm about the idea over execution! • It doesn't matter how much you spend in advertising a bad product. It can never become successful! Ndubueze Endie Umunna

The Quotes today, is credited to Mute Efe, a Leadership Coach, and Coordinator of the School for Personal Leadership (SPL) The Quotes are on Budget . The Quotes: • You cannot experience financial freedom when you don't have financial discipline. Budget is financial discipline. • You can be flat lined for years not because you are not making money, but because you don't have a budget. • When I start making millions I will be working with a budget. That is why you will never make the millions. • Without a budget there is no cure for waste. Say it over and over until it really sinks in. Are you wasting money? • Don't go through this year without a budget. • When you don't have a budget for your money, everything around you will be crying, "Buy me. Buy me." • You lose hundreds of thousands every year because you don't have a budget. • It is not your village people that is making your money disappear. It is because you don't have a budget. Mu...

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg (Ernest Hemingway) The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them (Frank Eberhart) The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed and delusion (Allan Lokos) If money management isn't something you enjoy, consider my perspective. I look at managing my money as if it were a part-time job. The time you spend monitoring your finances will pay off. You can make real money by cutting expenses and earning more interest on savings and investments. I'd challenge you to find a part-time job where you could potentially earn as much money for just an hour or two of your time (Laura D. Adams) The first rule in making money is not to lose it (Steven J. Lee) Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this (Stafford Beer) You attract poverty when you lack value for time (Sunday Adelaja)

The Quotes today, is credited to Bimbola Tayo-Bamidele. The Quotes: • The first step to financial independence is to decide, "If it's to be, it's up to me. And because it's up to me, I'll make it be." • If your spirit and soul do not take priority in what you LOVE to spend money on, you will remain poor – both in spirit and in pocket. • You will remain poor if you like to say this, "I would have loved to... but I don't have money." It is a poverty-related term. • Poverty is first a stronghold before it becomes a state. To get rid of it, first get rid of scarcity mindset. • Prosperity: having all that you need to have, to be and do all that you need to be and do; chief of which is the Holy Spirit. Bimbola Tayo-Bamidele

The Quotes today, is credited to Subomi Plumptre. The Quotes: • My boss used to tell me that just because an idea is obvious to me, doesn't mean it's obvious to my clients. I have over 15 years experience, processing ideas and developing products, so it appears easy to me. It's not as simple to them. • You are not a serious business if you don't have a system in place to respond to enquiries and close sales. • One way I eliminate service providers from my shortlist is to check speed of response. I can't chase people with my own money. • If you are good at what you do, being a mentor or serving on a start-up's board is a thankless job. If you do so, it's because you have a charitable heart. There is no way a start-up can pay for the quality of your time, ideas or experience. Even if they give you shares, the same brain and time you spent with them, could have been parlayed for a higher yielding stake in another company. • Businesses, please understand t...

The Quotes today, is credited to Alex Iheanacho, a Finance and Human Possibility Specialist. The Quotes: • Don't just chase money and forget life. If You do, You will come to the end of your life with nothing but worthless papers and things. • Convert your customers to friends and not friends to customers. "Customer friends" are happy to pay but "Friend customers" will want it for free or feel they are doing You a favour by paying. • Never ever be shy, slow, weak or timid in promoting yourself, what You do or in asking for money. Only poor people do so. • Find your strongest WHYs and the best HOWs will follow. • I love going to school, for as long as I don't do it to get a high paying job but a high paying sense. • I don't teach You about money or life, your probably know them better than me. I teach the psychology behind them. • You can invest in shit and make money. You can also invest in Gold and lose money. It is proper to invest wisely! ...

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, You owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent (Warren Buffett) Business people are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die (Stanley Bing) To achieve what 1% of the worlds population has (Financial Freedom), You must be willing to do what only 1% dare to do... hard work and perseverance of highest order (Manoj Arora) Don't wait for better Investment options, Invest and then wait for better time (Ankit Samrat) A person can’t have enough money or more than that for as long as he can’t imagine having it all and losing it all at will. It is the fear of losing money that maintains an individual in a perpetual state of losing it. And this, as much as the desire to accumulate money without the capacity to duplicate the state of having it, maintains one in a repetitive l...

The Quotes today, features quotes from Peter Ochuko Kajovo. Peter is an EventHost and Brand Strategist. The Quotes: • Consistency is a requirement for growth. • If you serve value long enough, the attention and reaction you seek will come naturally • Every business should (or rather must) have a presence online. No matter what you do, be you a billion dollar firm or just one dollar. • There are always creative ways of telling your business story online. Don't be a boring brand. Tell your brand stories, share experiences. • Everything is learnt. If you don't know how to project your brand or business, learn or outsource. "I don't know" is no longer an excuse. • Even if there are gaints in your industry, certain customers will be drawn to your uniqueness. Don't lose it trying to be someone else. Peter Ochuko Kajovo

On B&F Quotes today, I share five quotes I came across through my friend, Augustine Chidi Chukwumezie. The Quotes: • People refuse to take Chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for Success. • Most of us go through life waiting for the time to be right before doing something worthwhile. Do not wait, the time will never be just right. Work where you stand and with whatever tool you've got and you'll acquire better tools as you go on. • I hate referral business People refer people to new movies for N0.00K People refer people to restaurants for N0.00K People refer people to car dealers for N0.00K People refer people to real estate agents for N0.00K People refer people to best haircut spots for N0.00K You refer your friends to your tailor and hairdresser for N0.00K, not even a thank you. • Creating multiple streams of income is the holy grail of financial f...

My hope was never to build a company. I was driven by a sense of purpose to connect people and bring us closer together (Mark Zuckerberg, Cofounder and CEO of Facebook) Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each (Christopher Rice) Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work (Thomas Edison) Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this (Dave Ramsey) Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs (Zig Ziglar)

The Quotes today features quotes from Eke Samuel Uz. The Quotes: • You can't be poor and still lack ideas at the same time. Find people problems around and think of its solution. • In business, Profit is the score while rendering Value is the game. Play the game and get the scores. • First You think; then organization of those thoughts into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. • A product in the marketplace is the result of thoughts in an inner space and a corresponding action more than the common place. • The motivating force of entrepreneurs isn't money. It's the desire and drive for building a product and leadership. Eke Samuel Uz

The Quotes today will feature quotes from Dayo Abiola. Dayo Abiola is Nigeria's foremost logo maker, helping businesses own a symbol of success. The Quotes today, are all based on his specialty, "the logo". 15 Selected Quotes from Dayo Abiola: • Believe it or not, You prove and pride in the originality of the designer you're wearing because of the logo? • Logo and Brand have a relationship like Romeo and Juliet. One dies, the other will. • There's no business that needed to go far, that didn't change its logo to a good one. • Success is a desirable end. A logo is the means to its instant recognition. • A logo is a "shorthand" way of recognizing a business or brand. • Do the work of making the business reputable and let the logo do the work of making it presentable. • A good logo must always be easy to identify, memorize, proper to the eyes and must have meaning. • To know You have a good logo, ask yourself; what does your logo mean, not what...

Rule number one: Never lose money. Rule number two: Never forget Rule number one (Warren Buffett) Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die (Stanley Bing) Price ain't merely about numbers. It's a satisfying sacrifice (Toba Beta) If you owe ten pounds to the Bank of England, you get thrown in jail, but if you owe a million pounds, they invite you to sit on the Board (Philippe Riès)

Many small businesses are doomed from day one, not from competition or the economy, but from the ignorance of their owners . . . their destiny is already decided because they have no idea how a business should be operated (William Manchee) You can pull it off on a low budget. So instead of making a big budget which you don’t have, find a creative means of achieving your goals on a low budget (Sandra Ajaja) A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future (Alexa Von Tobel) Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it (Robert Kiyosaki)