Top 100 Success Business Quotes
#1. 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
#3. 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
#4. The goal of agility measure is to keep track of the most value-driven factors to lead business success.
Pearl Zhu
#5. Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs
Chris Murray
#6. We are extraordinarily reluctant to admit that luck plays a part in business success.
Stephen Bungay
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once.
Mark Cuban
#12. That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
Mitt Romney
#13. 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
#14. 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.
#15. In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route.
Suzy Kassem
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. I often say that it's only people who have their skin in the business who'll work towards its success.
Subhash Chandra
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.
Jason Fried
#22. 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
#23. In the world of business, being slow is a losing move.
Shawn Casemore
#26. 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
#27. The first step to success in any business is to ask your customers what they want.
Kevin Stirtz
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Artificial Intelligence is not a Man versus Machine saga; it's in fact, Man with Machine synergy.
Sudipto Ghosh
#31. 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
#32. Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
#33. 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
#34. The more deference there is, the narrower the band of judgements on which organisations rely. Deference acts like the fatty deposits that build up in arteries, restricting the flow of fresh, oxygen-enriched blood across the system.
Robin Ryde
#35. I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#36. I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.
George Burns
#37. The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.
Tom Peters
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Don't think you are unstoppable or foolproof. Don't think that the only way your business will work is through perfection. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for success.
Eike Batista
#44. Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills.
Abhishek Ratna
#45. This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer standing ... I've got gray. I've got plenty of gray. I'm creating a career slowly, like a coral reef.
Robert Reed
#46. You can't go into business thinking that success will come to you in just one or two years.
Do Won Chang
#47. Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long.
Lolly Daskal
#48. Flowers will still bloom for the world~ regardless of whether anyone admires them or not.
Nina Montgomery
#49. To be successful, any business requires a concentrated investment of time and energy; wherein each stage of the development has its tactics and priorities, in regards to which activities and when it makes sense to invest the efforts in.
Sahara Sanders
#51. There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success.
Steven Pinker
#52. It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business.
Kevin Rollins
#53. Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE.
Fran Tarkenton
#54. I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#55. The success of a business hinges entirely on its ability to generate cash. If a business cannot generate enough cash to grow, or at least sustain its operations, it has to save its behind by borrowing money, selling more stock, or shedding assets - none of which are good for investors.
Joel Ponzio
#56. You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I've learned one thing in all my years in the business, it's that often things don't work out the way you want at first. But that doesn't mean you should give up.
Russell Simmons
#57. If you aim to be the best then it's essential to evolve constantly, learn from past mistakes, look for new opportunities and have the flexibility to implement improved processes and solutions along the way.
Mark Gallagher
#58. It's not an easy task building a motorcycle company. Your window for success is relatively small. You can't afford a lot of hiccups if you don't have another business supporting you.
Robert Evans
#59. I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.
Celine Dion
#61. The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.
P.T. Barnum
#62. Testing assumptions allows you the power to create possibilities.
Lisa A. Mininni
#63. In regards to climbing the ladder of success, there is a better future, with a greater purpose. One can find it, only if he or she searches for it.
Ellen J. Barrier
#66. Having a me-too brand is a death sentence.
David Brier
#67. 20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That's assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.
Ryan Lilly
#68. I think that the more success you have as an actor, I think, the greatest advantage of being successful as an actor or being in this business is that you have the chance to pick and choose, or you have people coming to you with a much more different variety of roles.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#69. Passion without purpose leads to frustration.
Purpose without passion leads to procrastination.
Passion with purpose leads to success.
Valerie J. Lewis Coleman
#70. There are no keys to success - only tools.
Criss Jami
#71. The secret to success in business is synergy.
Farshad Asl
#72. Great selling involves helping people to make great buying decisions.
Chris Murray
#73. Time and persistence has shown me that I can succeed at sharing my art with others as a musician while running my own music business. And that kind of success is as good as I could have ever wished for.
Bradley Joseph
#74. If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.
George Lucas
#75. It is important to focus on present work. It is more important to align your present work with future outlook and desires.
Abhishek Ratna
#76. Always consider who you're learning from. Don't listen to people who are not experiencing the success you want.
Ehab Atalla
#77. The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.
Masaru Ibuka
#78. Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher; come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth.
Germany Kent
#79. Confidence believes you are able. Competence knows you are able.
Lolly Daskal
#80. If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.
Dee Dee Artner
#81. I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
Eddie Murphy
#82. When the magic of the brand is truly felt by the workforce, it can be called brandful.
Julia Gometz
#83. Our focus is our customers' success. At the end of the day, if your customers are successful, they will also be satisfied. But satisfaction is not success. In today's business environment, and certainly in tomorrow's, mistaking one for the other can be fatal.
Rob Bernshteyn
#84. Who are we, and how do we relate this idea in a way that's meaningful to our customers and the values they hold dear?
In other words, one must define something meaningful. To do that, one must identify to whom this must be meaningful.
David Brier
#85. Happiness at work is not about eliminating all the bad stuff from your job. It's about being happy at work even though some of these bad things are present. It's about building your skills and your energy to fix the problems, and to create more and more positive experiences at work.
Alexander Kjerulf
#86. There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company.
Dave Ulrich
#87. Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.
Alfred North Whitehead
#88. Why do some brands grow explosively when others (that could be thriving) die a lonely and forgettable death?
David Brier
#89. Faith comes in knowing that you don't know and being comfortably uncomfortable in that place.
Lisa A. Mininni
#90. In the professional world of leadership ambition and potential are the most excessive commodities.
Noel DeJesus
#91. 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
#92. While others were dreaming about it - I was getting it done.
Nathan W. Morris
#93. Most everything I do on a creative level is beyond the fame and money. I sort of work as an actor ... and take care of my family and mouths to feed and all of that. I don't really care about fame, but our business means money sometimes and financial success, which I can pass on to my family.
Corbin Bernsen
#94. Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you're the best person for the job
Chris Murray
#95. DOOR MONEY" To focus on door money means one is paying so much attention to the amount of money they are making at the door they do not consider there is much more profit to be made inside a venue.
Carlos Wallace
#96. As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.
Elbert Hubbard
#97. People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Francis Bacon
#99. If you have time to write a business plan, you have time to prove the model. Just sayin.
Richie Norton
#100. The sweet smell of success is no perfume for a woman. Say it's old-fashioned, say it's corny, but, as far as I can see, a girl who wears a 'business scent' is not attractive. A woman who flaunts her career as if it was a new hat is not beautiful.
Rod Taylor
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