Business School Basics

We teach what we need to learn. - Gloria Steinem

Success is the child of audacity. - Benjamin Disraeli

There is no success without hardship. - Sophocles

Who dares teach must never cease to learn. - John Cotton Dana

Self-trust is the first secret of success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille

In any business, the number-one competitor is inertia. - Dave Chilton

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch. - Joseph Addison

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. - Jonathan Winters

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

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

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success. - Zig Ziglar

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. - Al Bernstein

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs. - Woody Hayes

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money. - Johnny Cash

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. - George Bernard Shaw

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success. - Anna Pavlova

You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much. - Unknown

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. - Simon Cowell

Success is a two-bladed golden sword - it knights one and stabs one at the same time. - Mae West

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. - Swami Sivananda

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. - Amos B Alcott

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live. - James T Adams

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. - Clive James

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. - Ronald Reagan

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness. - Zig Ziglar

If I were starting out again today, I would look for an opportunity that is going to teach me something. - Joe Segal

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. - Viktor Frankl

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. - Danny Thomas

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. - Mark Twain

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit. - Jonathan Swift

What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies. - Gerry Spence

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman

Overnight success just doesn't happen. You've got to put your time in. You're up and down - all of a sudden, it just clicks. - Anthony Calvillo

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered. - Francis Bacon

Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible. - Harvey Mackay

Chinese people and Indian people can not do business together, because Indian people can not live without a bargain, and Chinese people can not give you a bargain. - Russell Peters

Collaboration is a key part of the success of any organization, executed through a clearly defined vision and mission, and based on transparency and constant communication. - Dinesh Paliwal

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most. - Jay Leno