Quotes on Business Success

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

The key factor that will determine your financial future is not the economy; the key factor is your philosophy.

The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.

Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

Keep your thinking right and your business will be right.

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.