Business School Basics

History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius

Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Van Morrison

Confidence is the hinge on the door to success. - Mary O'Hare Dumas

Monopoly is business at the end of its journey. - Henry Demarest Lloyd

Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson. - Kathryn Murray

It's every man's business to see justice done. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. - Albert Einstein

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

Meet success like a gentleman and disaster like a man. - Lord Birkenhead

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. - J Paul Getty

Success is what happens while you're doing what you love. - Tom Krueger

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. - Ed Gillespie

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone. - Deepak Chopra

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

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. - Garrison Keillor

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

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. - Peter F Drucker

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. - Napoleon Hill

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

The praise of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be. - Julius C Hare

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

The greatest human achievement is not success but facing an unchangeable fate with great courage. - Viktor Frankl

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

Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say that it does not sound in the smallest degree like German. - Oscar Wilde

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

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. - Ernest Hemingway

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit. - Conrad Hilton

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first. - Kevin Leman

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. - George Carlin

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

Business meetings are important because they're one way of demonstrating how many people the company can operate without. - Unknown

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives. - Newell D. Hillis

The secret of many a man's success in the world resides in his insight into the moods of men and his tact in dealing with them. - J.G. Holland

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

I don't know what use any one could find for a machine that would make copies of documents. It certainly couldn't be a feasible business by itself. - Unknown

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place. - Philip Armour

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

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous. On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. - W Somerset Maugham