Business Model Quotes

“Business models are about the systems and processes related to the exchange of value between sellers and buyers.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The value of intangibles derived from intellectual property rights and trademarks from brands, inventions, software code, and programs has never been higher.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“Just as a fish doesn't know it is wet, so companies often can't see or feel the very opportunities where they are swimming”
― Pam Henderson, Killing Ideas - You can kill an idea, you can't kill an opportunity

“But between the founding and the actual PayPal, it was just this tug-of-war where it was like, 'We're trying this, this week." Every week you go to investors and say, "We're doing this, exactly this. We're really focused. We're going to be huge." The next week you're like, "That was a lie.”
― Max Levchin

“Entrepreneurs don’t usually fail from circumstance, they fail from what I call entrepreneurial rigidity—a fixed mindset and unwillingness to change the business model.”
― Richie Norton

“Nobody thought the direct business model would work. But work it did, and spectacularly. Until it didn’t. And therein lies the tale.”
― Heather Simmons, Reinventing Dell

“BUSINESS MODEL THEORY: Your entire lifestyle is predicated on a business model.”
― Richie Norton

“I know multi-millionaires that do whatever they want, whenever they want because their business model is mobile and has nothing to do with an elevator or swiveling chair.”
― Richie Norton

“There are myriad ways to make money, yet regardless of how much you’re paid, how and why you get paid dictates your lifestyle.”
― Richie Norton

“What is the difference between coaching, consulting, and training?
Coaching is personal.
Consulting is an expertise shared (generally) with an organization.
Training is for the many.”
― Richie Norton

“Blatant cover-ups are the business model for most police internal affairs departments.”
― Steven Magee

“I started the business with a simple question: How can we make the process of buying a computer better? The answer was: Sell computers directly to the end customer. Eliminate the reseller's markup and pass those savings on to the customer.”
― Michael Dell, Direct from Dell Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry

“By digitizing a traditionally analog business model or process, we're effectively turning it into bits and atoms and enabling an infinite variety of possibilities.”
― Nicholas D. Evans, Mastering Digital Business: How powerful combinations of disruptive technologies are enabling the next wave of digital transformation

“Our business model has been to partner with bigger firms and team on projects to gain experience. A bigger firm always enhances my smaller firm’s position.”
― Linda Rawson, The Minority and Woman-Owned Small Business Guide to Government Contracts: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

“You want to have more time with your family, but your plan to be free will take 5 years. By then your 13-year-old child will be 18 and out of the house. What do you do instead to get that freedom lifestyle you want here and now? Bake your dream into your business model from day one. Future dreams become possible today when you prioritize your valued correctly.”
― Richie Norton

“Where value goes, dollars flow.”
― Richie Norton

“Proper business models include human flourishing.”
― Richie Norton

“A business model that creates the right kind of products or services, and potentially makes the lives of customers better, can easily attract the right investment towards a successful existence.”
― Victor Kwegyir, Opportunities in the New Economy and Beyond: Birthing Entrepreneurs in a Pandemic Economy to Create Successful Businesses and New Wealth

“The attention of a company must be on the welfare of its consumers, not on draining their wallets.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“Keeping knowledge from others for self-preservation is an ancient and evil practice.Truth, trust and transparency have always been the most dangerous anti-tradition.
The hardest part about innovation and change is rarely unconventional, it’s that conventional people have built walls that they protect with war-like tactics. Progress is the product of openness, not shallowness.”
― Richie Norton

“A better business model (that expands your autonomy and availability) is the best Christmas present you can gift your family this year.”
― Richie Norton

“Your job as an entrepreneur or executive or project creator is to set things in motion, not do it all yourself!”
― Richie Norton

“The government business model is clear. Governments have corrupted systems of military, police and legal regulators to facilitate their corrupt and dangerous activities.”
― Steven Magee

“The government follows a business model of enriching healthy workers and depletion of assets from the sick and disabled.”
― Steven Magee

“Business Model is the way you pretend to make money (and hope it works). Copying someone else’s model without understanding why it works for them. Ignoring the fact that “scaling” doesn’t automatically mean “profitable.”
― Renata Škarpa, Chaos.: Where dreams, disasters, and money collide.