Quotes on Business Success

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is.

Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed ‘dignity’ to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

Noone's a leader if there are no followers.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - everyday I'm learning something new.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.