Business Success Quotes

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else. ~ Ray Kroc

We make choices every day about what will inspire us and what we will allow to get us down. ~ Lisa A. Mininni

Many assume my business success has brought me happiness. But the way I see it, I am successful because I am happy. ~ Richard Branson

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures. ~ James E. Burke

It was always something what we did or said, and there would be this flash, and then it didn't subside. all your past sins would be brought up, it was just endless. and my mother attributed it sometimes to having neuralgia, but she never showed that outwardly ~ Alice Schroeder

Everybody sells something to somebody every day, whether it's a product, a service or just a case of making sure that they get their own way. ~ Chris Murray

A "Wait and See" approach to an external factor is not strategic ~ Fritz Shoemaker

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business. ~ Husnu Ozyegin

Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly. ~ Walt Disney

Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing ~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. Success is the sum of detail. It might perhaps be pleasing to imagine oneself beyond detail and engaged only in great things, but as I have often observed, if one attends only to great things and lets the little things pass the great things become little; that is, the business shrinks. ~ Harvey S. Firestone

When I was 15, a well off man told me the secret to success was golf. It took me until I became 30 to realize it was the true. Today, you couldn't convince me otherwise. ~ Colleen Ferrary Bader

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. ~ Warren Bennis

No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make. ~ Orrin Woodward

Every effective winning strategy is mapped out by focusing on the desired end goal. ~ Wayne Chirisa

There are only three requirements for success. First, decide exactly what it is you want in life. Second, determine the price that you are going to have to pay to get the things you want. And third, and this is most important, resolve to pay that price. ~ H. L. Hunt

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. ~ Aristotle Onassis

Don't be in the Money Making Business; be in the Business Making Money. ~ Kayambila Mpulamasaka

Inherent in every intention and desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment. ~ Deepak Chopra

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

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it. ~ Rudy Giuliani

Becoming an influential personality at work is much more important than becoming a hardworking person! ~ Abhishek Ratna

Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business. ~ Naveen Jain

Life is actually a series of tests. It's a social test, a happiness test, a business success test. You'd like to get A's in all of them. ~ Donald Trump

One of the reasons people aren't rich is because almost everyone has more excuses than money. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are. ~ Mark Cuban

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. ~ Earl Nightingale

Research on the human brain has shown it is predisposed to think in the terms of a story.36 This predisposition is continuously reinforced and strengthened throughout the life of your brain. Imaging studies have shown only a small, quarter-sized region of your brain lights up when someone tells you a series of facts. However, when someone tells you a story laced with those facts, or those facts in action, your entire brain lights up. Not only can you program your mind with a story - you can program someone else's mind. ~ Isaiah Hankel

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. ~ William Shakespeare

Marketing automation is the technology that propels your business into a new era of relationship based marketing with quantifiable results. When powerful technology meets effective implementation and internal process management, your company will soon find itself on a journey that leads to new heights of business success. ~ Jon Miller

Always consider who you're learning from. Don't listen to people who are not experiencing the success you want. ~ Ehab Atalla

I can honestly say that I have never had a more bitter disappointment. ~ H. H. Asquith

I delegate, therefore I am. ~ Michael McCafferty

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares. ~ Charles R. Schwab

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning. ~ Bill Gates

I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great. ~ James C. Collins

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

There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?" ~ Peter Drucker

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake. ~ Alan Greenspan

The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself? ~ Mark Twain

Come out of the don'ts and impossibles. Manifest your dream. Bloom your worth. ~ Amit Ray

Obtaining sought skills is critical in gaining an advantage over others (competitors), but being fluent in English could enable you to leap into the next level of success in international business. ~ John Taskinsoy

Convenience will put you out of business! ~ John Di Lemme

The boys just wanted to light the oven, but they ended up burning down the whole business and the family home. The children were saved, but the Ole Kirk Kristiansen's future looked bleak.

Ole Kirk was a religious man; his optimism and sense of humour were well-known far beyond the local boundaries. Where others would have folded their hands in their laps and accepted their fate, he did not give up. With the courage born of desperation, he rebuilt his business on a larger and more expensive scale than it had been previously - and more so than he could afford: Many rooms had to be sublet, and the Kristiansens themselves only used a small part of the building. Apprentices were no longer paid, but received board and lodging instead. Life continued, somehow. ~ Christian Humberg

You can say anything to anyone, but how you say it will determine how they will react. ~ John Rampton

The whole purpose of choosing to invest as a career is to let the management be constantly worried about his company and let yourself sip your wine; But the opposite happens. ~ Vijay Kedia

Hiring the wrong people is the fastest way to undermine a sustainable business. ~ Kevin J. Donaldson

Pushing on despite obstacles is a key ingredient to business success too. I found nothing is easy in business. In fact, it is downright hard. ~ Trey Hall

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

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. ~ Henry Ford

Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans. ~ Jim Rohn

Faith gives you the courage, calmness and confidence to reveal the authentic you. ~ Lisa A. Mininni

Rome was not built in a day, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in a day. ~ Vijay Kedia

We have the power to let go, the power to to hang on, and the power to be ... ~ Lisa A. Mininni

Staying motivated in business is really less about what you hear and think, and more about what you do and achieve. ~ Kevin J. Donaldson

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country. ~ William J. Clinton

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer. ~ Tom Peters

A gap in skills and abilities reveal a golden opportunity! ~ Abhishek Ratna

I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work. It's hard to see a youth that will go to bed by 2am and wake up by 5am. I don't rest until I achieve something. ~ Aliko Dangote

Treat each event you attend and each person that you meet as if it were an appointment with your one of your best clients -- even if you are meeting that person for the very first time. ~ Timothy M. Houston

You can't do it better without teamwork. ~ Ogwo David Emenike

advertising produces familiarity which produces sales ~ Paul Cookson

The quest for self improvement and personal growth is now an integral part of my life. I'm always looking for ways to increase my capacity to grow, develop and achieve more.
And that means, I'm willing to read, observe, listen, discuss, research and do whatever it takes to become a better improved me. I hope you are too. ~ Murali Murthy

Selling is essentially transference of feeling. ~ Zig Ziglar

We are players in a game I don't intend to lose. ~ Beth Crowley

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. ~ Thomas J. Watson

I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right ... People don't succeed by migrating to a "hot" industry (one word: dotcom) or by adopting a particular career-guiding mantra (remember "horizontal careers"?). They thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are
and connecting that to work that they truly love (and, in so doing, unleashing a productive and creative power that they never imagined). ~ Po Bronson

Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success. ~ John C. Maxwell

Your career growth depends mainly on how well you can articulate and present your performance review. ~ Abhishek Ratna

Out of respect for the love of liberty shown by the Chinese people, and also in the belief that the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse, I offer to tell you, free of charge, the truth about Bangalore.
"By telling you my life's story.
"See, when you come to Bangalore, and stop at a traffic light, some boy will run up to your car and knock on your window, while holding up a bootlegged copy of an American business book wrapped carefully in cellophane and with a title like:
TEN SECRETS OF BUSINESS SUCCESS!
or
BECOME AN ENTREPRENEUR IN SEVEN EASY DAYS!
"Don't waste your money on those American books. They're so yesterday.
"I am tomorrow. ~ Aravind Adiga

The key factor that will determine your financial future is not the economy; the key factor is your philosophy. ~ Jim Rohn

It takes just a step to meet a potential customer! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

In many instances, the words "sell" and "influence" are completely interchangeable. ~ Chris Murray

I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes. ~ Warren Buffett

Why do customers (and that includes you and me) find it so difficult to recall more than a couple of occasions when they felt that they were treated exceptionally by the salespeople who dealt with them? ~ Chris Murray

If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn't mean that you would be a midget if you were bald. ~ Lemony Snicket

Other people's opinions of you are none of your business. ~ Robin Sharma

Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success. ~ Anne M. Mulcahy

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

Grab every opportunity. You have maximum control only on 'now'! If this moment goes; if this opportunity is lost; you may not get another ever! ~ Abhishek Ratna

Testing assumptions allows you the power to create possibilities. ~ Lisa A. Mininni

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers. ~ Michael Bloomberg

Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success. ~ James Parton

Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills. ~ Abhishek Ratna

A decent IP attorney is one, who meets client's requirements; A good IP attorney is one, who helps clients secure business success. ~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

Today I get 100 times more done with 100 times less effort. What's my secret? I learned to stop being a cadet and start being a general. ~ Joshua Dorkin

If you create something that makes a difference in people's lives, you are likely to become a business success as well ~ Richard Branson

It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business. ~ Marc Rich

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

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

People you associate with or choose to deal with are the most important people who will shape your destiny. ~ Abhishek Ratna

Flowers will still bloom for the world~ regardless of whether anyone admires them or not. ~ Nina Montgomery

Jobs and Clow agreed that Apple was one of the great brands of the world, probably in the top five based on emotional appeal, but they needed to remind folks what was distinctive about it. So they wanted a brand image campaign, not a set of advertisements featuring products. It was designed to celebrate not what the computers could do, but what creative people could do with the computers. " This wasn't about processor speed or memory," Jobs recalled. " It was about creativity." It was directed not only at potential customers, but also at Apple's own employees: " We at Apple had forgotten who we were. One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are. That was the genesis of that campaign. ~ Walter Isaacson

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

How do I have productive days with minimum drama? Simple; I mind my own business. ~ Steve Maraboli

Discipline with balance conquers the world. ~ Ben Tolosa

I don't believe it can be taught as if it were a recipe. There aren't ingredients and techniques that will guarantee success. Parameters exist that, if followed, will ensure a business can continue, but you cannot clearly define our business success and then bottle it as you would a perfume. It's not that simple: to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running; and, if you have a good team round you and more than your fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can't guarantee it just by following someone else's formula. Business is a fluid, changing substance. ~ Richard Branson

Recognizing that the movie business was the entertainment business that wasn't moving fast enough to fill my creative and financial coffers was an impetus to grow, and that has taken me and so many of my colleagues into a larger world. ~ Lynda Obst

Your business should serve specific needs for specific demographics of people. That way, your marketing efforts will be more laser-focused and effective. ~ Kevin J. Donaldson

It is important to focus on present work. It is more important to align your present work with future outlook and desires. ~ Abhishek Ratna