Quotes about Business and Success

If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue? Votes: 3

It's not whether the glass is half empty or half full, it's who is pouring the water. The key in business and success at any endeavor is doing your best to control your destiny. You can't always do it, but you have to take every opportunity you can to be as prepared as-and ahead of-the competition as you possibly can be. Votes: 3

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it. Votes: 2

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends. Votes: 2

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer. Votes: 2

Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening. Votes: 2

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do. Votes: 2

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing. Votes: 2

Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times. Votes: 2

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist. Votes: 2

I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again. Votes: 2

I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that the magic comes through partnership between both. Votes: 2

It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline. Votes: 2

I didn't generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient. Votes: 2

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful! Votes: 2

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting. Votes: 2

I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge. Votes: 2

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success. Votes: 0

The secret of success in business is creativity. Votes: 0

Success in business depends more on relationships than spreadsheets. Votes: 0

Eat, sleep & Breathe your business to ensure it's success Votes: 0

That my business success is equal to my personal life. Votes: 0

Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business. Votes: 0

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work Votes: 0

Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success. Votes: 0

Energy and patience in business are two indispensable elements of success. Votes: 0

Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business. Votes: 0

Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success. Votes: 0

Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities. Votes: 0

Success in business isn't about being right; it's about being committed. Votes: 0

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success. Votes: 0

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas. Votes: 0

To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different. Votes: 0

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work. Votes: 0

A business based on brand is, very simply, a business primed for success. Votes: 0

In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once. Votes: 0

Business is the school of life. Success in business requires success in living. Votes: 0

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. Votes: 0

Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck. Votes: 0

Success in business means doing things better than rivals, not just doing things well. Votes: 0

Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done. Votes: 0

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day. Votes: 0

I thought success in show business was everything. It isn't. I don't know what is. Votes: 0

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. Votes: 0

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age. Votes: 0

There are no quick wins in business - it takes years to become an overnight success. Votes: 0

Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success. Votes: 0

Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made. Votes: 0

The first step to success in any business is to ask your customers what they want. Votes: 0

Failure or success in business is primarily not determined by mental capacity but by MENTAL ATTITUDES Votes: 0

Success in any field, but especially in business is about working with people, not against them. Votes: 0

Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success. Votes: 0

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others. Votes: 0

In business, your positive thoughts and lifestyle choices lead to your personal success and your career success. Votes: 0

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. Votes: 0

You can't go into business thinking that success will come to you in just one or two years. Votes: 0

Success in business doesn't come without passion, vision, hard work, and knowing that you're doing the right thing. Votes: 0

I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like. Votes: 0

The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success. Votes: 0

Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they'll determine 80 percent of your success. Votes: 0

Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity. Votes: 0

If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back. Votes: 0

I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success. Votes: 0

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is. Votes: 0

I often say that it's only people who have their skin in the business who'll work towards its success. Votes: 0

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery. Votes: 0

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever. Votes: 0

There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families. Votes: 0

Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal. Votes: 0

The secret to success in business, and in life, is to serve others. Put others first in all you do. Votes: 0

The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers. Votes: 0

I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made. Votes: 0

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man. Votes: 0

Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever. Votes: 0

If you create something that makes a difference in people's lives, you are likely to become a business success as well Votes: 0

There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?" Votes: 0

The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or you don't. Votes: 0

Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals - they are both essential ingredients for long-term success Votes: 0

The costs of poor quality are tangible; they will cost you customers and money, and ultimately affect the success of your business. Votes: 0

We believe that the business system only is the key to success. It's no miracle, only day-to-day work in the appropriate way. Votes: 0

Your personal growth, how you show up, and the ways you lead ultimately determine the success of your business and your life. Votes: 0

Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail. Votes: 0

If you get into business solely to make money, you won't. If you try to make a real difference, you'll find success. Votes: 0

Many assume my business success has brought me happiness. But the way I see it, I am successful because I am happy. Votes: 0

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc. Votes: 0

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk. Votes: 0

Realize that employees and the customers both have to be engaged, at the same time, to move your business forward for sustainable success. Votes: 0

The difference between helping and selling is just two letters. But those two letters are critically important to the success of business today. Votes: 0

All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application. Votes: 0

The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others. Votes: 0

A business who does not try to obtain changes to aim for more, is a business who doesn't intent to maintain its success. Votes: 0

I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist. Votes: 0

I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success. Votes: 0

I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that the magic comes through partnership between both, Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home. Votes: 0

I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother. Votes: 0

Being generous without keeping score strengthens your spirit, keeps you focused on the people who make your business what it is, and helps breed success. Votes: 0

When it comes to success in business, an MBA degree is optional. But a GSD, which is only earned by Getting Stuff Done, is required. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity. Votes: 0

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life. Votes: 0

Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur. Votes: 0

Being on a board is not just about showing up for the meetings. A board member needs to materially contribute to the success of the business. Votes: 0

True wealth, success, and happiness can only be achieved by balancing our business life with the duty we have to our self and to our family. Votes: 0

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it. Votes: 0

I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business, is really more accurate. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology. Votes: 0

There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it. Votes: 0

A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense. Votes: 0

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success. Votes: 0

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Whenever somebody has an idea for a business and experiences quite a bit of success, you can naturally expect the government to step in and screw it up. Votes: 0

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. Votes: 0

The keys to success, in business and in life, are truthfulness, the ability to take and give, honest and well-intended feedback, strength of character and conviction in one's principles Votes: 0

Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass. Votes: 0

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s." Votes: 0

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s. Votes: 0

Learn your craft well. Take care of your own business. Success (popularity) is fleeting for most, but longevity lies in a quality craft with integrity. Oh, and don't take yourself too seriously. Votes: 0

It used to be that companies with industrial economies of scale created business success. Now, success will come from the information economies of scale, either the ones with complete breadth, or complete depth. Votes: 0

If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow. Votes: 0