Successful Business Quotes

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives. ~ Alexander Osterwalder

To be able to donate money to effect change is extremely exciting. I think I'm very determined and persistent. All the things that you need to deliver a successful business and I think these qualities will be useful in the campaign with the Animal Justice Fund. ~ Jan Cameron

It's next to impossible to build a successful business without relationships. ~ Donald J. Trump

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

I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader. ~ Richard Branson

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

Your voice can change the world. ~ Barack Obama

We Experiment Endlessly, With New Products, New Methods, New Companies And New Marketing. A Successful Business The Emphasis Is On Experiment And Development, Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. ~ Richard Branson

As much as I'd only like to concentrate on the creative side of acting, the whole business in general is just that - a business - and you have to do your homework if you want to be successful. ~ Margot Robbie

Thank you. That means a lot. You probably didn't realize that I was a little jealous of the fact that you're a successful business owner, and I'm just sitting over here with a fake dick and a dream. ~ Meghan March

The key to successful business is self belief and application. ~ Felix Dennis

So, how'd you get the tattoo?" she said.
"Drunken frat boys don't say no to things their drunken frat brothers are telling them to do."
"That almost sounds like an admission of weakness from the invulnerable Andrew Sheffield."
"Not weakness. Stupidity, maybe. That, I'll cop to."
"I can't believe the man behind such a successful business is stupid."
"You'd be surprised. Just as there are different kinds of intelligence, there are different kinds of stupid. ~ Linda Morris

Nothing said "successful business" like an old, dusty, busted, duct-taped taxidermied alligator. ~ Alyssa Day

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

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

Successful businesspeople retain a quality most others not only lack but often fail to comprehend, and that's the unrelenting drive to convert a vision into reality. They are driven to realize this goal in a manner that appears to defy logic among others who lack this drive. ~ Robert Herjavec

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that. ~ Seth Godin

It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful. ~ Karen Mills

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

There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first. ~ Charlie Trotter

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

Leaders are never measured by their success but rather by the success of those they've been entrusted to lead. Therefore, a leader can never be considered successful until those they lead are successful. ~ Greg Cagle

a successful business is centered around a market and that market's needs. It's not centered around your wishes and desires. Ideally, what you want will overlap with what they need, but what you want should not be the source. ~ Ilise Benun

Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races. ~ Marcus Garvey

Several times Muir was threatened with a successful business career, but each time he escaped again into the wilderness. ~ John Muir

To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business? ~ Yisroel Salanter

People are grateful when you make a difference in their lives. That is the essence of any successful business ~ Stelios Haji-Ioannou

After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful. ~ Nelson Piquet

Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently. ~ Dick Costolo

The most successful business in the history of mankind is religion, and it is the most cost effective in franchising its ideology through ignorance and spreading of hate…. Such business has exceeded any expectation, and if it would transcend itself into world trading, it would have been the most valuable stock in any market….ever. ~ Husam Wafaei

In the desktop world, you could build a successful business where a consumer only came back to you once or maybe twice a year. I don't think you can build that kind of business on mobile. You need higher frequency, or otherwise you fall off the home screen and the user never comes back. ~ John Collison

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

A successful business is a good way to create significant wealth, but not every business will grow into a News Corporation or a McDonalds. ~ Paul Clitheroe

To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. ~ Aliko Dangote

Some of our most successful businessmen in US grew up in orphanages. They were well treated, and they learned discipline. They learned right or wrong, and they have wonderful careers. ~ Phyllis Schlafly

A successful business must have a sound knowledge of its market and work on how its product or service will be different, stand out and improve people's lives. If you can ensure it responds to a real need in the market place, your business can punch well above its weight. ~ Richard Branson

Renowned psychologist David McClelland of Harvard wrote about three basic motivators in people's work: need for achievement, need for affiliation, and need for power. Most successful business professionals' scores on these three motivations form something of a checkmark. They tend to be moderately highly motivated by a need for achievement, not much motivated by need for affiliation, and highly motivated by a need for power. The meritocrat, by contrast, is very highly oriented toward achievement, moderately highly motivated by need for affiliation, and almost negatively motivated by need for power. That ~ James Waldroop

Conscious capitalism is about more than simply making money - although it's about that too. It's about creating a successful business that also connects supporters to something that matters to them and that has great impact in the world. ~ Blake Mycoskie

God has blessed me with a wonderful family, a successful business, and outstanding employees. I do not take these blessings lightly. ~ David Green

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business. ~ Richard Branson

Romans, 10:9 states the basic requirements for salvation, "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Did you know that believing in your heart and confessing with your mouth are, also, the only two requirements to begin working on your successful business? These two actions seem so simple, yet are so powerful. God wants us to have complete faith in Him, so our hearts and mouths are tools we can use to unlock God's miraculous blessings. ~ V.L. Thompson

I don't know why she tries so hard to resist me. I'm not such a bad guy. I'm fit and healthy, a successful business owner, I'm not in debt, and I'm pretty damn good-looking. Or so I hear anyway. ~ Michelle Leighton

There is no mystery about successful business ... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you. ~ Charles William Eliot

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services. ~ Brian Tracy

In the past few years it had become a rare luxury for all of them to be together at once, especially since Daisy stayed in America with her husband, Matthew, for long periods of time. The trips were necessary for both of them: Matthew was a successful business entrepreneur, and Daisy was a successful novelist with a publisher in New York as well as London. ~ Lisa Kleypas

I didn't know at the time, but what I was doing here included two keys to running a successful business: knowing your customer and knowing how to get free marketing. ~ Sophia Amoruso

A successful business is created before there is a business. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. ~ Peter F. Drucker

Companies will need to pursue a more diversified business model, but I think those companies that have what I call a focused diversified business model will be more successful. ~ Kenneth Chenault

Be careful what you wish for - getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult. ~ David Chang

I routinely make trips to China and India where we have offices to continue to maintain the linkages that are necessary to run a successful business. ~ Douglas Leone

I made mistakes, but I'm luckier than most. I've got a successful business, lots of fans who think a lot of me and a family who loves me. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard

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

A little of everything, that's what a successful business is all about, Brian. Diversity, pleasure, amazement, fulfillment ... what a successful life is all about, for that matter ... I don't give advice, but if I did, you could do worse than to remember that ... now let me see ... somewhere ~ Stephen King

If you want an incredibly passionate, happy, ALIVE business…don't overcomplicate things. Once all is said and done, the foundational elements of a successful business are very simple: respect, service, value and sales. Comparatively, everything else is froth. ~ Richie Norton

Life is short, and it is here to be lived. ~ Kate Winslet

Learning never ends, therefore, have a keen eye for learning and studying how successful business and people run the little things that business people might overlook but they are key to their success. ~ Donald Allen

I have no patience for any "fairness"-driven complaints. Life isn't fair, love isn't fair, and as long as we breathe the free air of a capitalistic society, business will never be fair. Thirty years into my career, I have yet to hear a valid "that's not fair" career-related complaint that wasn't related to gender or racial bias. Ninety-nine percent of the time, the people complaining were underachievers that relied on their own lazy standards instead of common sense. They tried to do a good job instead of running a successful business. ~ Ari Gold

Starting a successful business is not tricky. Starting a successful business does not require above average intelligence. Starting a successful business does require having a pig-headed, purpose-driven tenacity about achieving your life goals and fulfilling your life's vision through providing products and services that offer
uncompromising quality in a scalable and duplicatable way. ~ Clay Clark

I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement
they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah ... ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America. ~ Chuck D

Monopoly is the condition of every successful business. ~ Peter Thiel

Being an entrepreneur might seem like the scariest thing in the world to pursue, and those around you who appear to be unsupportive are the same people who wish that they could do what you are about to do. Facing fears means not being afraid of people who may ridicule you if you fall. Use those butterflies and jitters to fuel your fearless actions. Successful business owners do not let fear stop them, and they do not create fictional scenarios about how and when they will fail. As business owners, if we are ever to assume, let them be positive assumptions. ~ V.L. Thompson

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. ~ Abraham Lincoln

An Oxford degree or owning a successful business or a perfect looking body does NOT guarantee inner-happiness, peace of mind, self-love, and a loving relationship. ~ Maddy Malhotra

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. ~ Charles M. Schwab

Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it. ~ Warren Buffett

Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely successful businessman in Egypt. ~ Penelope Lively

Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks. ~ G.R. Gopinath

Showing up is important and it is a big part of becoming successful. ~ Andy Albright

Above all, you want to create something you're proud of. ~ Richard Branson

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people. ~ A.G. Gaston

All generations need to realize they can learn from each other, to run a successful business and an advanced society. ~ Pearl Zhu

I knew if I had to struggle, I couldn't struggle in New York. My ego was too big for it. I couldn't be a guy who is starving when I had a very successful business when I was young. ~ Jeremy Luke

As a Shark, I've been in the tank with these entrepreneurs and I can tell you Rachel gets right to the heart of how they succeeded," said Barbara Corcoran in her endorsement of the book. "'Shark Tank MOMpreneurs' is a must read for anyone looking to learn the inside secrets of getting on 'Shark Tank' and landing a deal, or getting the publicity that's essential for any successful business. ~ Rachel A. Olsen

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

The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful. ~ Brad D. Smith

I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn't happen overnight. It took me 30 years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It's not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme. ~ Aliko Dangote

If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful. ~ John Baldessari

A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals. ~ Robert S. Kaplan

Just being young and growing up in this business is hard. Just growing up in general is hard. ~ Justin Bieber

After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda. ~ Coco Chanel

If someone publishes an essay, or tells a joke, or performs a play that forwards a problematic idea the U.S. government generally wouldn't try to stop that person from doing so. Even if they could. If the expression doesn't involve national security the government generally doesn't give a shit. But, if enough vocal consumers are personally offended, they can silence that artist just as effectively. They can petition advertisers and marginalize the artist's reception and economically remove that individual from whatever platform he or she happens to utilize simply because there are no expression based platforms that don't have an economic underpinning. It's one of those situations where the practical manifestation is the opposite of the technical intention. As Americans we tend to look down on European countries that impose legal limitations on speech. Yet as long as speakers in those countries stay within the specified boundaries discourse is allowed relatively unfettered, even when it's unpopular. In the U.S., there are absolutely no speech boundaries imposed by the government. So the citizenry creates its own limitations based on the arbitrary values of whichever activist group is most successful at inflicting its worldview upon an economically fragile public sphere. As a consequence, the United States is a safe space for those who want to criticize the government, but a dangerous place for those who want to advance unpopular thoughts about any other subject that could be d ~ Chuck Klosterman

To sell successfully, you don't have to be aggressive. You don't need to be anything other than you. You just need to experiment until you find a way that feels natural. ~ Matthew Pollard

I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business. ~ Kate Moss

You are one of the few successful persons I know."
"Me? Why?"
"You know precisely what you are doing and you do it well."
"But I don't really do much of anything."
"And of course the quantity means nothing to you, nor the weight others place upon your actions. In my eyes, that makes you a success."
"By not giving a damn? But I do, you know."
"Of course you do, of course you do! But it is a matter of style, an awareness of choice - ~ Roger Zelazny

I'm grateful I've got my mind. I can take care of my own business. ~ John Morton

I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else. ~ Don King

Chris: For me! Where do you live, where have you come from? For me!
I was dying every day and you were killing my boys and you did it for me? What the hell do you think I was thinking of, the Goddamn business? Is that as far as your mind can see, the business? What is that , the world
the business? What the hell do you mean, you did it for me? Don't you have a country? Don't you live in the world? What the hell are you? You're not even an animal, no animal kills his own, what are you? ~ Arthur Miller

The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes ... when he has nothing better to do. ~ John Ruskin

The mind is like a fertile garden," Bruce said. "It will grow anything you wish to plant - beautiful flowers or weeds. And so it is with successful, healthy thoughts or with negative ones that will, like weeds, strangle and crowd the others. Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence. ~ Joe Hyams

A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train. ~ Paul Dickson

Under the notion that unregulated market-driven values and relations should shape every domain of human life, the business model of governance has eviscerated any viable notion of social responsibility while furthering the criminalization of social problems and cutbacks in basic social services, especially for young people, the elderly, people of color, and the impoverished.36 At this historical juncture there is a merging of violence and governance along with the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of institutions and public spheres that have provided the minimal conditions for democracy. This becomes obvious in the emergence of a surveillance state in which social media not only become new platforms for the invasion of privacy but further legitimate a culture in which monitoring functions are viewed as both necessary and benign. Meanwhile, the state-sponsored society of hyper-fear increasingly regards each and every person as a potential terrorist suspect. ~ Henry A. Giroux

Some wise guys came by my business establishment and tried to offer me neighborhood protection. They weren't mafia, but they were wearing togas. ~ Jarod Kintz

I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life. ~ Felicity Kendal

I have worked in the homes of many successful people and have seen firsthand that everyone fails in life, but failure can be a gift if you don't give up and are willing to learn, improve, and grow because of it. You see, failure often serves as a defining moment, a crossroads on the journey of your life. It gives you a test designed to measure your courage, perseverance, commitment, and a dedication. Are you a pretender who gives up after a little adversity or a contender who keeps getting up after getting knocked down? ~ Jon Gordon

I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do their careers, they would not stay open a year. ~ Jack White

When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true. ~ Willard Scott

I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I've always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn't sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I'm in a fortunate position. ~ Vivienne Westwood

I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies. ~ Dennis Muren