Successful Business Person Quotes

#1. One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.

Alan Cooper

#2. When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

Magic Johnson

#3. No successful business was ever made without someone taking a chance, no successful person got to where they are without taking risks, and no endeavor ever succeeded without people taking a gamble.

Stephen Richards

#4. Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

Phillip Lim

#5. The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer.

Anonymous

#6. What would bring about a revival of epic proportion?

Andy Stanley

#7. Ask successful men or women about their early years in business, and nearly every one will be able to tell you about the first person who showed faith in his or her abilities or offered genuine encouragement.

Cathie Black

#8. Religion is not in fault.

Swami Vivekananda

#9. There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [ ... just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]

David Mason

#10. If everything stays the same, it seems possible for someone to come back.

Olivia Sudjic

#11. State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. By a routine that was not even secret, all letters were opened in transit.

George Orwell

#13. Don't play the reels of your life backwards - play them forward.

Art Hochberg

#14. Five years after I started CD Baby, when it was a big success, the media said I had revolutionized the music business. But 'revolution' is a term that people use only when you're successful. Before that, you're just a quirky person who does things differently.

Derek Sivers

#15. There is no mystery about successful business ... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

Charles William Eliot

#16. There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny.

Tom Ford

#17. The greatest griefs are silent.

Wally Lamb

#18. I've done a lot of work other than sci-fi, and between half-hour comedy, stage, and various movie roles, I've really tried to avoid being typecast.

Scott Bakula

#19. I just want to be who I am. I think all women go through the belief that they need to be superwoman - that to be successful in any way, and I don't necessarily mean in business or anything, but just to be a successful person, you have to be superwoman.

Cindy McCain

#20. Acquire wisdom from the story of those who have already passed.

Uthman Ibn Affan

#21. Don't make your job your assignment. Rather, make your life assignment your career and job

Sunday Adelaja

#22. We shall not become like Christ until we give Him more time.

Frank Laubach

#23. How about a TV show about vampire plastic surgeons called, "Suck and Tuck"?

Neil Leckman

#24. Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.

Carolyn Parkhurst