Quotes About Successful Businesses

#1. Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities.

Brian Tracy

#2. A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market ... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.

Elle Macpherson

#3. It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

Adam Braun

#4. Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.

Richard Branson

#5. There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#6. The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales ... not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth.

Steve Maraboli

#7. Successful businesses know brands need PROTECTION and LOVE. Find your brand!

Tisha R. Oehmen

#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. Only successful businesses can create and secure jobs.

Klaus Kleinfeld

#10. The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Tom Peters

#11. I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions are run by women. When that happens, it won't just mean happier women and families; it will mean more successful businesses and better lives for us all.

Sheryl Sandberg

#12. At the core, all successful businesses sell some combination of money, status, power, love, knowledge, protection, pleasure, and excitement. The more clearly you articulate how your product satisfies one or more of these drives, the more attractive your offer will become.

Josh Kaufman

#13. I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently ... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

Anita Roddick

#14. If you start to see more successful businesses that are playing on a global level, the story of Africa will begin to change

Tara Fela-Durotoye

#15. Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

A.G. Gaston

#16. I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

Steve Ballmer

#17. I grew up in a family business ... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful.

Karen Mills

#18. The U.S. government needs to learn from successful private businesses that run an effective and efficient operation in serving their customers and outwitting their competitors.

Newton Lee

#19. Successful investing is about owning businesses and reaping the huge rewards provided by the dividends and earnings growth of our nation's - and, for that matter, the world's - corporations.

John C. Bogle

#20. Most entrepreneurial types are free-wheelers who like to do a variety of things and do not enjoy routine tasks. But a smart entrepreneur will eventually learn that while ideas start businesses, organization makes them successful.

Larry Burkett

#21. For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Richard Branson

#22. Small businesses forget how to be social. Everyone tries to do social media when they should just try being social. To be successful with social media, you have to treat each individual person just like you would in real life by establishing a genuine connection with them.

Jeet Banerjee

#23. 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

#24. For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: 'How can we provide value to our customers?' At the end of the day, that is what matters.

Eli Broad

#25. You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.

Bill Cosby

#26. People talk about the businesses of the future needing to be more agile and more responsive if they are to be successful. But this requires a deep change in the way organisations work.

Andrew Curry

#27. Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.

John Mackey

#28. XL is a world class brand with very successful insurance, reinsurance and life reinsurance businesses and I look forward to helping it realize its full potential.

Mike McGavick

#29. Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices other are unwilling to.

Kim Ki-jung

#30. I believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest or greedy, people are. Thus, a business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.

S. Truett Cathy

#31. The history of antitrust law enforcement shows that successful antitrust prosecutions have often strengthened and brought vitality to extremely large companies and businesses.

Robert Kennedy

#32. The world is filled with successful small businesses that stay small.

Kenneth Fisher

#33. The music and airlines businesses are tough, but I've been successful in them.

Tony Fernandes

#34. The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had I been more successful.

Kathy Ireland

#35. Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.

Solomon Ortiz

#36. Which I think is great. I don't think there's nothing wrong with it. If you look in most professional sports, they're run by Jewish people. If you look at a lot of most successful corporations and stuff, more businesses, they're run by Jewish. It's not a knock, but they are some crafty people.

Michael Ray

#37. Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.

Andy Stern

#38. Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.

Robert Kiyosaki

#39. thousand CEOs, business owners, and highly successful entrepreneurs about their businesses and how they lead companies through good times and bad. One of the most important questions I ask them is "What's the biggest worry keeping you awake at night?

Jason Jennings

#40. Study Successful People & Businesses, then do what they did to become successful while making slight modifications to fit your life style, your values, your business model & your goals.

Clay Clark

#41. The one thing I don't do, that helps make me successful, is I don't rob Peter to pay Paul. All of my businesses have to stand on their own.

Tony Stewart

#42. Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.

Matt Taibbi

#43. We just start putting our ideas out there, yet how do we actually attack contemporary problems? We do what some of the most successful American businesses do. We outsource and collaborate

Baratunde R. Thurston