Quotes about Business Plan

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan. Votes: 8

Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact. Votes: 7

Quality is the best business plan. Votes: 6

I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans. Votes: 5

Start a business plan for yourself, not for anyone else. Votes: 5

Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. Votes: 5

I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that. Votes: 5

Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey. Votes: 5

We knew we loved making cookies and every time we did, we made people happy. That was our business plan. Votes: 5

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan. Votes: 5

Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan. Votes: 5

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But as a business it worked. Votes: 5

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base Votes: 5

Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace. Votes: 5

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. Votes: 5

Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room. Votes: 5

The biggest complaint from people wanting to start a business is, "I don't have capital." Banks aren't lending but if they were, it would give you a greater opportunity to screw things up. So it will help you be creative and spend less. If you have a proven business plan, share with friends and family. Votes: 5

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself. Votes: 4

There's one thing I've learned about entrepreneurs' business plans. Every one is wrong. Votes: 4

Don't get stuck on a business plan just because it was your business plan. Votes: 4

Read over your existing business plan like you read the menu at your favorite restaurant. Votes: 4

My original business plan? To work hard, get 300 clients in the Rochester area, and live happily ever after. Votes: 4

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan. Votes: 4

Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period. Votes: 4

Uncertainty about sales impedes business planning and could harm capital formation just as much as uncertainty about inflation can create uncertainty about relative prices and harm business planning. Votes: 4

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business. Votes: 4

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards. Votes: 4

I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered. Votes: 4

Going public is not a business plan. Votes: 3

My only "business plan" was to get lucky. Votes: 3

There was no business plan, no model. It was just guts. Votes: 3

Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas. Votes: 3

Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period. Votes: 3

Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan Votes: 3

Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard. Votes: 3

The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans. Votes: 3

My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan. Votes: 3

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing. Votes: 3

For the last 15 years, Microsoft's master business plan seems to have been, Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it. Votes: 3

Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. Votes: 3

For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate, it was pretty close. Votes: 3

I never imagined I'd be working with government, or military or politicians or big companies. None of this stuff I'm doing was on any business plan anywhere ever. Votes: 3

Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million. Votes: 3

You don't need a business plan. You don't need to have an MBA. All you need is a great idea. Anything is possible and you can accomplish it. Votes: 3

Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I see the opportunity and we're going right.' Votes: 3

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base. Votes: 3

Launch your product or service before you have funding. See how people respond to it before you have a PowerPoint and business plan - have something people can use, and go from there. Votes: 3

The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binde Votes: 3

The banks' product is debt. They try to tell customers that "debts are good for you," but the customers can't afford any more debt, so there's no way the banks can continue their current business plan. Votes: 3

I think films would get a lot better if people paid leaving the cinema. There's a whole business plan of opening terrible films in hundreds of cinemas and then closing them when the word of mouth gets out. Votes: 3

Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life. Votes: 3

We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That's always entertaining. The deal is, it's a mixture of luck and persistence. Votes: 3

It's very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you're writing the business plan that there's a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt. Votes: 3

The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these 'omics' that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans. What we're doing is we are seizing control of our evolutionary future. I mean we're essentially using technology to just jam evolution into fast-forward. Votes: 3

I think one of the main reason's Rick Rosenthal and Whitewater PIctures decided to 'get in bed with me' on 'Fat Kid' was because I came in with a strong business plan as well as a creative vision on how to make the film. Votes: 3

The business is about coming up with a business plan and using your relationships and networking and seeing your dreams come true. Everyone on this show has their own business. Fifteen minutes of fame is fleeting. It's about learning the business and creating a new business. Votes: 3

When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn't even have a business plan. Votes: 3

Most banks - with Deutsche Bank at the top of the spectrum here - have decided that they can't make money lending to barrowers anymore, so they're going to the second business plan: They lend money to casino capitalists. That is, to people who want to gamble on derivatives. Votes: 3

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business. Votes: 3

To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say. Votes: 3

If you go out there and start making noise and making sales - people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all. Votes: 3

No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped. I've developed tests that I'm hoping can help entrepreneurs manage that shaping process, so that the business plan that comes out the other end has a very high probability of success. Votes: 3

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business. Votes: 2

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. Votes: 2

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law. Votes: 2

One thing I've learned about his business is this whole 'plan thing' - it doesn't work. Votes: 2

In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you. Votes: 2

I grew up assuming that I would be in public service. I never planned to be in business. Votes: 2

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like. Votes: 2

Always have a backup plan in case you fail. Prepare for another business. Votes: 0

You need a plan for yourself, just like you need a plan for a business. Votes: 0

Fact: If you don't have an effective plan for selling, any business you get is accidental. Votes: 0

I don't really plan on working a 9-to-5 job. I want to own my own business. Votes: 0

The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it Votes: 0

If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business. Votes: 0

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way. Votes: 0

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place. Votes: 0

Even after working at 'MarketWatch' and loving journalism and loving business news, I still wanted to be a lawyer because it was my plan. Votes: 0

I have important business to get to. I plan to sulk all afternoon, followed, perhaps, by an evening of Byronic brooding and a nighttime of dissipation. Votes: 0

A little deed done very well is better than a mighty plan kept on paper, undone. Wishes don't change the world; it's actions that do this business! Votes: 0

God wants you to begin to strategise, plan, draw out tactics, methodologies of how your business would take over that particular sphere of business where you are Votes: 0

We made a plan at school to meet in her garage and kiss. It was like this little business deal. I kissed her and then I ran home Votes: 0