Top 100 Quotes About Business And Success
#1. If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration
is not this the way to exalt virtue?
Confucius
#2. There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.
Rob Dyrdek
#3. To the degree that one relates sensitively, appropriately, and even charmingly, to the people and events faced in business and personal life, success will follow.
Herman L Glaess
#4. Success is the accomplishment of any number of possible aims, dreams, aspirations or goals. It's very personal and unique to you. Your greatest desire could be someone else's idea of hell; you might want to be an award-winning chef while your best friend hates cooking.
Nigel Cumberland
#5. I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.
Stanley Kubrick
#6. The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.
Clarence H. Burns
#7. To be a success you need to have persistence of drive, persistence of vision, and persistence of action. You will be doing yourself a disservice by not staying resilient.
Meghan Wier
#8. Get on top of the obstacles
and they become vantage points.
Tom Althouse
#9. Earn the Right - Ensure you put this chunk of Sales Tetris in place first and all the other pieces just take their own positions naturally.
Chris Murray
#10. I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.
Harrison Ford
#11. A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
Charlie Munger
#12. O beautiful for spacious skies, ... O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Til all success be nobleness And every gain divine!
Katharine Lee Bates
#14. Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success, keep the door open and the ladder down for others to follow.
Ron Brown
#15. You are the only boss you have. And I want you to be the most demanding boss that you can be. If you really want to make a success of this business, then you must put yourself on a schedule.
Mary Kay Ash
#16. It's a tough business. To my parents or to their friends, I was not a success, but to me I was a huge success. I was having a blast. I was working on shows I loved, I was working with actors I loved, and I was making a living as an actor. And I loved every second of it.
Christina Hendricks
#17. The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience
Phil Harding
#18. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.
Jane Austen
#19. Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.
William Hazlitt
#20. It takes healthy, resilient leaders and employees to achieve great results.
Sue Tetzlaff
#21. Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.
Criss Jami
#22. The Yankees understood what New York understood, that there was no shame in buying success, and maybe because of their lack of shame they did what they did better than anyone in the business.
Michael Lewis
#23. My definition of success? The more you are actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel.
Richard Branson
#24. It has taken more than a hundred scientists two years to find out how to make the product in question; I have been given thirty days to create its personality and plan its launching. If I do my job well, I shall contribute as much as the hundred scientists to the success of this product.
David Ogilvy
#25. I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.
Valeria Golino
#26. If you are in business trying to make it, things are falling apart and you can't get it together and you don't know what is going on and you wanna stop. Don't stop. The only way you can make it and have true success in your life. And there's one way. You can't have any fear.
Tyler Perry
#27. I knew Quintessentially was a success when my father, who does a lot of business in Beirut, introduced himself to somebody and they said, 'Oh, do you know Ben Elliot? I'd really like to meet him.' I remember him ringing me up, really annoyed.
Ben Elliot
#28. One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
Ida Tarbell
#29. I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
George Bernard Shaw
#30. I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background.
Beth Brooke
#31. Fear, doubt, and lack are things we must talk about to emerge as associations that thrive for years to come.
Holly Duckworth
#32. We have the power to let go, the power to to hang on, and the power to be ...
Lisa A. Mininni
#33. I am of the opinion that a tantric lifestyle can not only build successful individuals, but it has the potential to shape successful yet harmonious communities and even business enterprises.
Vishwas Chavan
#34. Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business. And what that sends to my generation is, one day, you can just wake up and run for Senate, no matter how [much] lack of experience you have.
Meghan McCain
#35. Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.
Mark Cuban
#36. Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
Biz Stone
#37. My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did.
Margaret Cho
#38. Life and business are rather simple after all-to make a success of either, you've got to hang on to the knack of putting yourself into the other person's place.
William Wrigley Jr.
#39. Fitness and daily exercise are correlated with success in business and in life.3
Scott Adams
#40. Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#41. In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing, he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken.
Loretta Lynch
#42. Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but believe me: success can be achieved through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change, and most of all, boldness to dream.
John Gokongwei
#43. In business, your positive thoughts and lifestyle choices lead to your personal success and your career success.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#44. What kind of impression are you leaving on people? Activate the ability for your first impression and last impression!
John Di Lemme
#45. I think the most important reason for our success is that very early in our quest into globalisation, we invested in people - and we have done that consistently and particularly in the service business.
Azim Premji
#46. I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've experienced some failure in my life. That gives you perspective and humility about this business; it's good to realize that you're always just one movie away from not being in Vogue anymore.
Reese Witherspoon
#47. Why do customers (and that includes you and me) find it so difficult to recall more than a couple of occasions when they felt that they were treated exceptionally by the salespeople who dealt with them?
Chris Murray
#48. Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.
Yogi Berra
#49. You don't have to prove confidence; when you have it, it'll show.
Real confidence is quiet, tactful, civil, and humble.
Rosalinda Oropeza Randall
#50. I am more scared now that I was at any point since I began trading, because I recognize how ephemeral success can be in this business. I know that to be successful, I have to be frightened. My biggest hits have always come after I have had a great period and I started to think that I knew something.
Paul Tudor Jones
#51. No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty
#52. In one way an oil boom is a mighty bad thing, because it gets into your blood and almost becomes an obsession. Booms are filled with excitement, adventure, and drama, but sometimes the exit from the scene must be made between suns on a pair of mighty weary feet.
Sue Sanders
#53. Relationship networking is about who you know and more importantly, who knows you. Building the right network can open new doors to future success in your business.
Heidi
#54. The only thing holding you back is you. Commit to developing the mindset of a winner, set your goals and chase them down. Remember, a dog in the hunt ain't got no fleas!
Andy Albright
#55. In the business world, management is always viewed in terms of productivity. Why? Because productivity is the key to the success of the organization and to your future as a manager.
Tony Alessandra
#56. Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.
W. Edwards Deming
#57. In order to become a success, a business doesn't just have to do well, it has to to better than its competitors. Being number one isn't just about bragging rights. Often it means the difference between prospering and merely hanging on.
Mitt Romney
#58. Our success at friendship, business, sports, love
indeed, at nearly every enterprise we attempt
is largely determined by our self-image. People who have a confidence in their personal worth seem to be magnets for success and happiness.
Alan Loy McGinnis
#59. If you know what your customers want, the other aspect to know is what are your competitors doing?
Shawn Casemore
#60. Businessmen must move with the times ... the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.
Li Ka-shing
#61. My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you're doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing.
Matthew Gray Gubler
#62. The high performing organizational culture and business capability coherence are the decisive factors for the success of strategy execution.
Pearl Zhu
#63. We had many good directors - John Carpenter, Brian De Palma - but things have become polluted by business, money and bad relationships. The success of the horror genre has led to its downfall.
Dario Argento
#64. I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential.
James D. Watson
#65. Willpower determines success in business, interpersonal relationships, health, whatever it is. All the activities in your life, success and failure in them, are dependent upon your ability to manifest will.
Frederick Lenz
#66. Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.
Brandi L. Bates
#67. After the Big Recession of 2008, many Americans found themselves without jobs, homes, and savings. We realized that we really can't rely on our 401k's to keep us safe. It's up to us to achieve financial freedom for ourselves. And home-based businesses is the way to go.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#68. Success is perceptible we can touch it,smell it and taste it.
Mohammed Sekouty
#69. The greatest way to ensure your company's failure is to appoint leaders who see a divide between themselves and the team; who are more fixated on their elevated role than on the act of leading.
Steve Maraboli
#70. Whenever somebody has an idea for a business and experiences quite a bit of success, you can naturally expect the government to step in and screw it up.
Neal Boortz
#71. Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.
Brian Tracy
#72. Self-awareness is the key to find our uniqueness. The latter increases our chance to succeed in our personal, career, and business lives...
Assegid Habtewold
#73. All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
Tom Peters
#74. We can never fall short when it comes to recruiting, hiring, maintaining and growing our workforce. It is the employees who make our organization's success a reality.
Vern Dosch
#75. When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.
Josh Turner
#76. It's ever so important to believe in what you do, trust your ability to create and show yourself worthy. Never sell yourself short.
Simon Zingerman
#77. Launching a brand is not for those with thin skin. It takes courage, intelligence and foresight.
David Brier
#78. Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
#79. Staying motivated in business is really less about what you hear and think, and more about what you do and achieve.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#80. You can't be happy at work every day. No matter how much you love your job, there are still going to be bad days. And that's cool - it's always OK to have a bad day at work.
Alexander Kjerulf
#81. I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire twenties with some success as a comedy writer but not much as a performer. And you have to be kind of informed and naive at the same time.
Steve Martin
#82. A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense.
Konosuke Matsushita
#83. Intelligence is not mandatory for business or creative success. It helps, but determination and enthusiasm are more important.
Chris Lewis
#84. At the end of the day, if you have a great product and service paired with the wrong pricing strategy / business model, you don't have a business.
Richie Norton
#85. You really have to understand this isn't a business where you sit in the back room and do calculations - you have to be very concerned about employees and customers, because that's really what's going to bring you success.
Fred DeLuca
#86. You just plant a few seeds, cultivate the shoots, and watch your career grow and branch out. It takes time and dedication. There are no overnight success stories in the music business!
Christopher Tin
#87. The precept that location is key to the success of a business applies to art, and even to life itself: we thrive or wither depending on how nourishing our environment is.
Yann Martel
#88. Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#89. It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.
Harvey MacKay
#90. In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take.
John Hickenlooper
#91. Your money habits and investment strategy is not all about what you do, but much about who you are. Become the person it takes to do, succeed, and innovate.
Amah Lambert
#92. What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.
James Cook
#93. We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
Ida Tarbell
#94. The potential of controlling and living a successful life according to your terms depends on how you think. Your perception is your world. You can create the life you want and in fact, you can even shape the way you want it.
Dee Dee Artner
#95. Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
Robert Kiyosaki
#96. I believe the American dream is still alive and that education and entrepreneurship together are its key enablers. Through the years I have observed the power of this combination when the two forces work in tandem. Together they lead to personal success, business success, and societal success.
Ralph De La Vega
#97. Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills.
Abhishek Ratna
#98. My friend, temporary setbacks and failures are prerequisites to success. They aren't signs that, "maybe it's just not supposed to be.
Clay Clark
#99. Figure out the WHY you want it and turn it into a desire and then and obsession!
Darren D.O. Connell
#100. Your personal growth, how you show up, and the ways you lead ultimately determine the success of your business and your life.
David J. Greer
