Business School Basics

I never dreamed about success, I worked for it. - Estee Lauder

The road to success is always under construction. - Lily Tomlin

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation. - Zig Ziglar

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

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. - Alexander Graham Bell

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well. - John D Rockefeller

Business will get better, but we won't know it when it does. - Henry Ford

Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money. - Alexandre Dumas

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money. - Peter F Drucker

Purposeful storytelling isn't show business, it's good business. - Peter Guber

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley

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

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success. - Samuel Goldwyn

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. - Arthur Helps

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one. - Brian Clough

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. - Brian Tracy

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

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. - Bill Gates

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

College Professor: A man who gets what's left over after the football coach is paid off - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I don't know the key to success but I know the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Unknown

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

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. - Thomas Carlyle

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. - George S Patton

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful. - Benjamin Franklin

Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none. - I Ching

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

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. - Mike Ditka

We so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. - Ellen Glasgow

Teach your daughter to worry less about fitting into the glass slippers and more about shattering the glass ceilings. - Unknown

A simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress. - Mark Zuckerberg

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

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. - Confucius

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes it's built on catastrophe. - Sumner Redstone

The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness. - Lewis B Smedes

Assmosis: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

People say that the Bible is a boring book, but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare. - Malcolm Muggeridge

To be successful and grow your business and revenues, you must match the way you market your products with the way your prospects learn about and shop for your products. - Brian Halligan

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failures are not the opposite of success - it's part of success. - Arianna Huffington