Value Added Quotes

“One way to improve your business is to increase its capabilities. The more capable your business is of providing value to it's customers, the more success your business will experience.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“People were not getting back what they wanted for their sold labor. Taxes grew and services shrank. Prices rose and quality decayed. Everywhere people felt used and betrayed and coerced and cheated.”
― Marge Piercy, Dance the Eagle to Sleep

“In those meetings, I learned that even economic diagrams needn’t be linear. Ours was a nest of concentric circles, and an enterprise was measured by its value to each circle, from the individual and family to the community and environment. I realized that Rebecca and her colleagues were trying to do nothing less than transform the System of National Accounts, the statistical framework here and in most countries for measuring economic activity. For instance, the value of a tree depends on its estimated value or sale price, but if it is sold and cut down, there is no accounting on the debit side of the ledger for loss of oxygen, seeding of other trees, or value to the community or the environment. This group was inventing a new way of measuring profit and loss.

By the end of our days together, I understood economics in a whole new way. A balance sheet really could be about balance.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“The absolute value of learning might not be obvious immediately but it is the value added in the long-run”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Everyone is a prospective client. Just bring that value, and someone will bring that contract.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

“Think about your clients before thinking about yourself. Think of what value to add before thinking of what profit to subtract.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You