Top 100 Quotes About Success In Business
#1. If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.
Lloyd Dorfman
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Fitness and daily exercise are correlated with success in business and in life.3
Scott Adams
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. A person's right to a job is as specious as his boss' right to success in business. There is no right to a minimum wage, just as there is no right to success in self-employment.
Rex Curry
#11. 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
#12. Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.
Sallie Krawcheck
#13. Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.
William Feather
#14. Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.
Felix Rohatyn
#15. Business is the school of life. Success in business requires success in living.
Ehab Atalla
#16. To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different.
Kenny Marchant
#17. Other studies back this notion - physical fitness and daily exercise are correlated with success in business and in life.3 There's
Scott Adams
#18. The secret to success in business is synergy.
Farshad Asl
#19. Success in business means doing things better than rivals, not just doing things well.
Phil Rosenzweig
#20. Whether it's his beloved game of polo or his magical success in business, Norman Brinker simply does not know how to lose.
Newt Gingrich
#21. A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.
J. Paul Getty
#22. Failure or success in business is primarily not determined by mental capacity but by MENTAL ATTITUDES
Walter Dill Scott
#23. Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.
Bob McDonnell
#24. By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of the individual, success in business is in itself almost a sign of spiritual grace, for it is a proof that a man has laboured faithfully in his vocation.
R. H. Tawney
#25. To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.
Steven Rattner
#26. In fact, for all the secrets and formulas, for all the self-proclaimed thought leadership, success in business is as elusive as ever.
Philip M. Rosenzweig
#27. 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
#28. Success in business isn't about being right; it's about being committed.
Mike Michalowicz
#29. There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.
Clayton Christensen
#30. The keys to success, in business and in life, are truthfulness, the ability to take and give, honest and well-intended feedback, strength of character and conviction in one's principles
Robert Kiyosaki
#31. Success in business depends more on relationships than spreadsheets.
Alan Cohen
#32. The secret to success in business, and in life, is to serve others. Put others first in all you do.
Kevin Stirtz
#33. There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?"
Peter Drucker
#35. Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
Ron Jaworski
#36. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
David Rockefeller
#37. I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving, but that commonly with an increase of wealth, the desire of wealth increased.
John Woolman
#38. Success in business is important. Success as a human being with values, character, kindness, and love is much more important.
Debasish Mridha
#39. Success in business does not depend upon genius. Any young man of ordinary intelligence who is normally sound and not afraid to work should succeed in spite of obstacles and handicaps if he plays the game fairly and keeps everlastingly at it.
James Cash Penney
#40. Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.
Stephen Covey
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Get on top of the obstacles
and they become vantage points.
Tom Althouse
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
Charlie Munger
#50. 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
#52. 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
#53. We are extraordinarily reluctant to admit that luck plays a part in business success.
Stephen Bungay
#54. One of the main secrets of success is the ability to foresee the situation a few steps forward.
Sahara Sanders
#55. It takes healthy, resilient leaders and employees to achieve great results.
Sue Tetzlaff
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once.
Mark Cuban
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. Acting is not a science. Anybody who believes that their success exists in relation to their goals is deluding themselves; unless you think of a career in terms of financial goals. I have nothing against Tom Cruise, but he must have a large capacity to deal with the business side of movies.
Val Kilmer
#68. In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.
Mick Fleetwood
#69. I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.
Donald Trump
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route.
Suzy Kassem
#73. I think my mission is to be in business so I can create a positive impact that will uplift the others around me. (p. 78)
Injap Sia
#74. 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
#75. In business, your positive thoughts and lifestyle choices lead to your personal success and your career success.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#76. You will not be a success in every business, but if you don't start a business you will never be a success.
Debasish Mridha
#77. 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
#78. There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
#79. 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
#80. I often say that it's only people who have their skin in the business who'll work towards its success.
Subhash Chandra
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty
#84. 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
#85. I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.
Holt McCallany
#86. 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
#87. Not much in the world ends up being the same as it started out,
unless of course it had a very short life cycle.
Lorii Myers
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.
W. Edwards Deming
#91. 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
#92. In the world of business, being slow is a losing move.
Shawn Casemore
#93. 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
#94. My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq
Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution
#95. The first step to success in any business is to ask your customers what they want.
Kevin Stirtz
#96. 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
#97. If you're in business, all the content in the world will do you no good unless it leads to a sale.
Richie Norton
#98. In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.
Akira Mori
#99. 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
#100. Success is perceptible we can touch it,smell it and taste it.
Mohammed Sekouty
