Quotes by Tahl Raz - Page 1

Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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Networking
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No sport - maybe no business - is more entrepreneurial than boxing.
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Boxing
Entrepreneurial
No Business
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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Punishing
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Sell your intellectual property based on a track record of success and innovation.
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Innovation
Intellectual
Intellectual Property
Property
Track
Track Record
Based
Sell
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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Graphic
Identities
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Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget.
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Design
Management
Disciplines
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One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.
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Ceo
Acts
Board
Steve
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Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.
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Money
Drilling
Half
Oil
Real
Job
Challenge
Finding
Pump
Risky
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Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
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Entrepreneurial
Management
Wild West
Wild
Suited
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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Nike
Athletic
Heroism
Shoes
Transforming
Brand
Created
Designers
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Would it be a surprise if entrepreneurs recoil at the thought of consciously courting any person who has more power and money than they have?
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Recoil
Surprise
Courting
Entrepreneurs
More Power
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When designing your product, go beyond consumers' current knowledge base. Design, test, and dig deeper than almost any client would pay you to do.
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Design
Deeper
Base
Beyond
Client
Current
Designing
Dig
Product
Test
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ReadyMade's first three issues dished out instructions for all sorts of kitschy crafts and odd projects: homemade wallets, Adirondack chairs, even taxidermy.
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Chairs
Crafts
Homemade
Odd
Projects
Instructions
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Spirituality is a growth industry. And nothing illustrates that better than the burgeoning crop of colossal sanctuaries sprouting up in suburbs across the land.
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Colossal
Spirituality
Suburbs
Crop
Illustrate
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If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
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Corporate
Leap
Selling
Solve
Currently
Consumer
Reinvent
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Fred Segal was founded - by none other than Fred Segal - as a tiny jeans retailer in 1968. In the 1970s Segal, began selling space to employees, starting with his nephew Ron Herman.
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Jeans
Nephew
Selling
Tiny
Employees
Fred
Ron
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A company's logo can be a visual ambassador, one that goes on everything from business cards to delivery trucks. When used effectively, it can be the window into the soul of a brand.
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Business
Cards
Company
Delivery
Soul
Used
Window
Visual
Ambassador
Brand
Effectively
Goes
Trucks
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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Add
Aesthetic
Competence
Consulting
Core
Manufacturing
Noble
Pure
Applied
Eager
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Design firms and progressive companies rely on many of the same tools: rapid prototyping, observational research, creative thinking, collaborative work environments, and multidisciplinary teams.
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Design
Rely
Research
Tools
Collaborative
Companies
Environments
Observational
Rapid
Teams
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The process of unleashing worms on organic waste such as food scraps and grass clippings is known as 'vermicomposting.' Amateur horticulturists and hippies have been doing it on a small scale for decades.
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Decades
Grass
Waste
Worms
Amateur
Scale
Hippies
Organic
Scraps
Small Scale
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There is constant talk about the intermarriage crisis: who is a Jew and how we define a Jew. That doesn't go over well with young Jews trying to figure out whether they want to be a part of this thing or not.
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Constant
Crisis
Define
Figure
Jews
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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Buying
Exploring
Reserves
Term
Typical
Capital
Companies
Finding
Independents
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While professional basketball, football, and baseball players make millions and their salaries represent well over 50% of the billions generated by those sports, the spoils of boxing don't often make it to the boxers.
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Billions
Boxers
Baseball Players
Salaries
Spoils
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
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Affordable
Bass
Essence
Logos
Mark
Middle
Practicality
Red
Simplest
Target
Used
Circle
Dot
Hip
Oldest
Seem
Triangle
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Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
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Big Companies
Cash
Dry
Will Never Company
Barrel
Run
Companies
Often
Drain
Rest
Per
Maybe
Proves
Requires
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Quality that significantly exceeds the customer's expectations doesn't seem to pay off. This 'delight the customer' stuff isn't rewarding. One has to be careful about delighting customers too often, because it sort of reshapes customer expectations.
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Quality
Be Careful
Careful
Delight
Customer
Rewarding
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There is a huge opportunity in the intermarriage trend. These are people who, if you show them how vital the community is and how great it is to raise kids Jewish, these people are going to raise their kids Jewish. Ultimately, that's all that matters.
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Opportunity
Huge
Jewish
Great Community People
Matters
Huge Opportunity
Raise
Trend
Ultimately
Vital
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Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
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Defined
Fickle
Marketing
Members
Slick
Created
High-Tech
Production
Plays
Practical
Product
Production Values
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Take information technology. We have winners implementing CRM (customer relationship management systems) and losers implementing CRM. What mattered in technology is that the technology actually drives either cost reduction or superior strategy execution.
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Cost
Execution
Implementing
Information Technology
Management
Reduction
Strategy
Customer
Drives
Losers
Mattered
Superior
Systems
Winners
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Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
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Boxing
General Welfare
Mutual
Owners
Professional Sports
Welfare
Alliance
Sport
Unlike
Partnerships
Professional
Promoter
Whose
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The role of president, as George W. Bush commented in 2000, requires vision, management, and an eye for talent - not so different from that of CEO. But during the first years of Carter's presidency, his Cabinet was anything but businesslike, beset by infighting and meetings that ambled.
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Carter
Ceo
Eye
Management
Meetings
Presidency
Talent
Vision
Bush
Cabinet
Commented
George
George W
George W. Bush
Requires
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Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. There are too many lawsuits and too few heroes. Absurd mismatches and fraudulent rankings by unaccountable offshore sanctioning bodies have disgusted fans.
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Sports
Absurd
Boxing
Disgusted
Fans
Notorious
Offshore
Shots
Today
Heroes
Bodies
Days
District
Few
Fraudulent
Lawsuits
Mob
Troubled
Unaccountable
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Since its founding, Brooks Instrument has been producing devices that measure and control the flow rate of fluids used in manufacturing processes. And for all those years, the company has relied on the standard marketing package for its sector: earnest, information-crammed manuals and brochures.
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Brooks
Devices
Earnest
Flow
Founding
Manufacturing
Rate
Instrument
Measure
Standard
Package
Processes
Producing
Sector
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A company logo may be the last thing cost-conscious CEOs focus on when they're looking to jump-start growth. Which is perhaps why it took more than two decades for White Mountain Footwear, a privately held shoe manufacturer based in Lisbon, N.H., to finally give its own emblem some serious thought.
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Decades
Footwear
Mountain
Ceos
Emblem
Held
Manufacturer
Privately
Shoe
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Edible Arrangements will have to beat back some rivals, including a handful of mom-and-pop vendors and a company in Pennsylvania called Incredibly Edible Delites. And there's always the chance that a deep-pocketed national florist like FTD will decide that pretty produce is profitable and jump into the mix.
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Chance
Arrangements
Company
Handful
Including
Pennsylvania
Produce
Rivals
Vendors
Chance Always Will
Beat
Edible
Florist
Chance Will Always
Incredibly
Jump
Mix
National
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When the founder of World Energy Solutions Inc. assembled his first board in 2000, it consisted of nine investors and friends. The group met quarterly, generally affirming Domaleski's every action. But the Worcester, Mass., company, which auctions electricity and gas credits, lacked customers and financing. It needed more from its board to survive.
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Affirming
Customers
Electricity
Financing
Gas
Investors
Mass
Needed
Nine
Solutions
Board
Credits
Founder
Generally
Group
Met
Survive
To Survive
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