Quotes About Running A Successful Business

#1. One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.

Seth Godin

#2. I didn't know at the time, but what I was doing here included two keys to running a successful business: knowing your customer and knowing how to get free marketing.

Sophia Amoruso

#3. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once.

Richard Branson

#4. A road trip with your ancient mommy is just what you need after falling off a mountain and having your soul ripped out by your best friend.

Natasha Larry

#5. I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!

Earl Monroe

#6. It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

Peter Lynch

#7. I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business. Remember many new businesses do not make it and running a business will be a tough experience, involving long hours and many hard decisions - it helps to have that passion to keep you going.

Richard Branson

#8. Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

Stuart Rose

#9. When everybody does better, EVERYBODY does better.

Jim Hightower

#10. The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.

Amit Kalantri

#11. You cannot run a successful retail business from memory.

John Hartford

#12. I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

Ralph Waite

#13. I think the responsibility of running a huge business, which happens if you become a successful designer, probably makes you more careful.

Susan Orlean

#14. If you run your business fairly; if you treat people well; if you try to move your business into areas that are making a real positive difference to other peoples lives; I think you'll A. have much pleasant life, but B. I think you'll have a much more successful business.

Richard Branson

#15. Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#16. And there it was, pushing up through all the worries: hope.

Kiera Cass

#17. It was reported that Anna Kournikova is coming out with her own brand of deodorant. Apparently, the ads show Kournikova holding up her deodorant and saying now only her tennis game stinks.

Conan O'Brien

#18. I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk.

Lou Gerstner

#19. Best roads are the roads where you forget everything but the road!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

Richard Branson

#21. If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

Bruce Forsyth

#22. God will protect us, but to make sure, carry a heavy club.

Gypsy Rose Lee

#23. In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

Akio Morita

#24. Dreams are made to be real not in the garbage bin.

Corrine Annette Zahra

#25. In all my work, I'm interested in understanding big issues through the lives of individuals ...

Laura Poitras

#26. He wished he'd had time to drink dinner.

Terry Pratchett