Business School Basics

Nothing succeeds like success. - Alexander Dumas

Success lies in the hands of those who want it. - Unknown

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. - Christopher Lasch

Life's failures are stepping stones to success. - Unknown

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. - Zig Ziglar

Lawyers are in the business of advocacy, not judgment. - Allan C Hutchinson

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink. - Gore Vidal

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. - Shah Rukh Khan

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? - Jerry Seinfeld

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. - Lily Tomlin

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain

The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield. - Lefty Gomez

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take. - Christopher Reeve

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me. - Howard Nemerov

There is no such thing as 'business ethics'... it's all ethics! - John C Maxwell

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. - Irving Berlin

Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. - Coco Chanel

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for. - Liv Ullman

Coming together is the beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. - Henry Ford

I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business. - Orville Redenbacher

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

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. - Josh Billings

A word of encouragement during failure is worth more than a dictionary of praise following success. - Unknown

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. - John Wooden

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. - David Frost

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it. - Anita Roddick

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

Change your belief that struggle and striving are necessary for success and watch how smoothly everything can go. - Unknown

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different. - Harvey Mackay

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1. - Arthur Ashe

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. - Horace

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. - George Foreman

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. - John Foster Dulles

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. - John C Maxwell

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you handle disappointment along the way. - Robert Kiyosaki

When customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. - Zig Ziglar

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

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. - Mario Andretti