Business School Basics

Failure teaches success. - Japanese Saying

Success is the child of audacity. - Benjamin Disraeli

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. - Charlie Finley

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

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. - Truman Capote

The path to success is to take massive determined action. - Tony Robbins

Success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. - Alan Price

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success. - John Hays Hammond

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton

You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think. - Elbert Hubbard

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success. - Napoleon Hill

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. - Will Rogers

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. - Joseph Campbell

Business opportunities are like buses; there's always another one coming. - Richard Branson

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

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

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. - Andy Grove

I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then. - Mark Zuckerberg

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. - Ignacio Estrada

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business. - Clara Barton

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

When you teach a child something, you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself. - Jean Piaget

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

Family, religion, friendship... these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. - Mr. Burns

Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success. - Svatmarama

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

Finance functions lose the potential to steer their organizations to success when they defer performance management to other functions. - Jack Alexander

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. - G Stanley Hall

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. - Diana Rankin

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation. - John Wooden

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington

What we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by the little scraps of wisdom. - Umberto Eco

While intent is the seed of manifestation, action is the water that nourishes the seed. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to achieve true success. - Steve Maraboli

Whether you're a homemaker or a schoolteacher, a lawyer or a doctor, a news anchor or an aerobics instructor, everyone is conducting business each and every day. - Donald Trump

Mountain pose teaches us, literally, how to stand on our own two feet... teaching us to root ourselves into the earth... Our bodies become a connection between heaven and earth. - Carol Krucoff

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. - Orison Swett Marden

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

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities. - Harvey Mackay