Business

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. – Cyril Northcote Parkinson

Among the key management skills Tim Cook learned from Steve Jobs while working at Apple was the importance of not being married to past beliefs, a competency that Cook says few leaders possess. Jobs welcomed debates, relished being challenged, and valued those who were willing to admit they were wrong when new evidence emerged. – Tim Cook

If you don’t have money, banks won’t give you money. – Adel Ali, founder ArabicAir

Entrepreneur is a synonym for salesperson, and salesperson is the pedestrian term for storyteller. Pro tip: No startup makes sense. We (entrepreneurs) are all impostors who must deploy a fiction (a story) that captures the imagination and attracts capital to pull the future forward and turn rhyme into reason. No business I have started, at the moment of inception, made any sense … until it did. Or didn’t. The only way to predict the future is to make it. – Scott Galloway

Customers will remember the experience they have with a brand longer than they remember the price they paid. – Tiffani Bova, The Experience Mindset

People don’t simply buy products or services. They “hire” them to make progress in specific circumstances. – Pascal Finette