Quotes about business success
These quotes are here to inspire you to action - not just to entertain.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
Colin Powell
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Bejamin Franklin
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense
Thomas Edison
You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!
Chris Corrigan, Managing Director, Patrick Corporation
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey
I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.
Steve Ballmer (CEO Microsoft)
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton
Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter F. Drucker
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson Jr
Anybody can cut prices, but it takes a brain to produce a better article.
P.D. Armour
The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.
Henry Ford
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles
The way to achieve success is first to have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends - wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Aristotle(384BC-322BC)
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Business is not financial science; it's about trading, buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.
Anita Roddick
If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Thomas J. Peters
When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)
Underpromise; overdeliver.
Tom Peters, in The Chicago Tribune
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
John H. Patterson
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B.C. Forbes
The golden rule for every business person is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924)
To follow, without halt, one's aim: there's the secret of success.
(Anna Pavolova)
Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.
(Peter F Drucker)
Vision without action is a daydream, action without vision is a nightmare.
If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got.
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it with remarkable accuracy.
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