Quotes on Business Success

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

The success [of Mary Kay Inc.] is much, much deeper than just dollars and cents and buildings and assets. The real success of our Company is measured to me in the lives that have been touched and given hope.

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

It doesn’t matter how strong or capable you are; if you don’t have a big heart, you will not succeed.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.