Business School Basics

The secret of success is consistency of purpose. - Benjamin Disraeli

Work hard in silence. Let success make the noise. - Unknown

Positivity is such a high predictor of success rate. - Shawn Achor

Success is dependent on the glands - the sweat glands. - Zig Ziglar

I was almost put out of business by a well-meaning corpse. - WC Fields

A round wife and a full barn are the signs of good success. - Amish Saying

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. - Bob Talbert

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business. - Joey Adams

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. - Henry Ford

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. - William Feather

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance. - Brian Tracy

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. - Albert Einstein

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. - A.J. Liebling

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things. - Hideo Kojima

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. - Mary Little

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. - Ernest Hemingway

The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor upon the business known as gambling. - Ambrose Bierce

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e e cummings

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them. - John C Maxwell

The core of true success is love. And that includes loving yourself enough to take care of yourself. - Zig Ziglar

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. - Stephen Leacock

Success is one thing you can't pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments every day. - Zig Ziglar

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw. - Harvey Mackay

A university is an institution that has two thousand seats in the classrooms and eighty thousand in the stadium. - Unknown

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? - Fidel Castro

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. - Samuel Smiles

Never give up.
Never accept success or failure.
Neither need be permanent.
It's attitude that counts. - Bernie Legge

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. - Steve Maraboli

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. - Antonin Scalia

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem. - Greg Boyle

No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open. - Harvey Mackay

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. - Jack Welch

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. - Sloan Wilson

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning. - Denis Waitley

Success is inevitable if you keep moving. The only thing that matters is that you keep going. The only way to truly fail at a marathon is to stop taking the next step. - Tim Grahl

What is success? It's a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. - Margaret Thatcher

To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy - this is success! - Sasha Azevedo