Top 100 Quotes About Business Success
#1. The goal of agility measure is to keep track of the most value-driven factors to lead business success.
Pearl Zhu
#2. We are extraordinarily reluctant to admit that luck plays a part in business success.
Stephen Bungay
#3. A well-trained workforce is critical to small-business success. What I hear from business is that it's hard to find help that meets their needs.
Jon Tester
#4. 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
#5. Business success contains the seeds of its destruction.
Andrew S. Grove
#6. It used to be that companies with industrial economies of scale created business success. Now, success will come from the information economies of scale, either the ones with complete breadth, or complete depth.
Tucker Max
#7. Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.
Jack Welch
#8. Many assume my business success has brought me happiness. But the way I see it, I am successful because I am happy.
Richard Branson
#9. All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
Tom Peters
#10. Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success.
John C. Maxwell
#11. I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
B.C. Forbes
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work. It's hard to see a youth that will go to bed by 2am and wake up by 5am. I don't rest until I achieve something.
Aliko Dangote
#15. Life is actually a series of tests. It's a social test, a happiness test, a business success test. You'd like to get A's in all of them.
Donald Trump
#16. If you create something that makes a difference in people's lives, you are likely to become a business success as well
Richard Branson
#17. Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.
Warren Buffett
#18. Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.
J. Paul Getty
#19. That my business success is equal to my personal life.
Merv Griffin
#20. The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?
Mark Twain
#21. Although an impressive amount of business and social interaction takes place over the telephone and fax, by e-mail, or in person today, the well-written letter remains a staple of business success and one of the strongest connecting links between human beings.
Rosalie Maggio
#22. Business success depends on good business leadership, and that means hiring and partnering with only the people your business really needs. These are the smart, hardworking people who know your industry as well as, or even better than, you.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#23. In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.
Robert Kiyosaki
#24. The result of all this turmoil is that product excellence is now paramount to business success - not control of information, not a stranglehold on distribution, not overwhelming marketing power (although these are still important).
Eric Schmidt
#25. A decent IP attorney is one, who meets client's requirements; A good IP attorney is one, who helps clients secure business success.
Kalyan C. Kankanala
#26. Learn your craft well. Take care of your own business. Success (popularity) is fleeting for most, but longevity lies in a quality craft with integrity. Oh, and don't take yourself too seriously.
Oleta Adams
#27. Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline.
Paula Wagner
#28. The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.
Warren Buffett
#29. Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.
James Parton
#30. A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.
Henry Latham Doherty
#31. Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#32. I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.
Andy Grove
#33. Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.
Margaret Thatcher
#34. In war, resources lead to success: in business, success leads to resources. This is a fundamental difference between the processes of war and competition.
John Kay
#35. If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.
Kathy Ireland
#36. [The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#37. A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.
Stephen Young
#38. I see marketing not only as a vital skill for small business success, but more importantly, as a vehicle to create art and connect deeply with and serve others to make the world a better place.
Marie Forleo
#39. Goodwill and reputation are intangibles, but they are the keys to business success. Since they are also inexorably linked to social values, it follows that a change in social norms will have a significant impact on profits.
Noreena Hertz
#40. Pushing on despite obstacles is a key ingredient to business success too. I found nothing is easy in business. In fact, it is downright hard.
Trey Hall
#42. 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
#43. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
Mark W. Boyer
#45. Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby
Agona Apell
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson
#49. 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
#50. The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.
Clarence H. Burns
#51. 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
#52. Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks.
G.R. Gopinath
#53. Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it happen. Not your boss, your business partner, your financial planner, your spouse of life-partner. Just you.
Paul Clitheroe
#54. Get on top of the obstacles
and they become vantage points.
Tom Althouse
#55. 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
#56. If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.
Lloyd Dorfman
#57. If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of at
least a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies follow
your business approach, you are certainly an important manager with
leader characteristics.
Eraldo Banovac
#59. Part-time effort means part-tim results.
Tony Curl
#60. 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
#61. Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing.
David Brier
#62. A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
Charlie Munger
#63. 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
#64. Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs
Chris Murray
#66. A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it's irrelevant. But to the right audience, it's a passion.
David Brier
#67. 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
#69. Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
Seth Godin
#71. Just as you can't rehearse your way to success, you can't design your way there either.
Dale Ludwig
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience
Phil Harding
#75. 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
#76. One of the main secrets of success is the ability to foresee the situation a few steps forward.
Sahara Sanders
#77. 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
#78. It takes healthy, resilient leaders and employees to achieve great results.
Sue Tetzlaff
#79. Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.
Criss Jami
#80. 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
#81. My definition of success? The more you are actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel.
Richard Branson
#82. When it comes to success in business, an MBA degree is optional. But a GSD, which is only earned by Getting Stuff Done, is required.
Christine Comaford-Lynch
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. Winning is an approach to life. The place it starts is not on the playing field or in the business organization; nor is it competitive. We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.
Frederick Lenz
#87. Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering what matters to us as individuals.
Jerry I. Porras
#88. As I visualize the new, I become dissatisfied with the old.
Louis Tice
#89. 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
#90. Never start a business just to 'make money'. Start a business to make a difference.
Marie Forleo
#91. In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once.
Mark Cuban
#93. I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.
Warren Buffett
#94. 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
#95. People say that celebrities stop developing emotionally at the age of their success - which for Tom had been with Risky Business at twenty-one.
Leah Remini
#96. 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
#97. Fear, doubt, and lack are things we must talk about to emerge as associations that thrive for years to come.
Holly Duckworth
#99. Success in the music industry isn't something that you wait for or hope for. It is something that you create, day after day.
Simon S. Tam
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