A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. RockefellerRead
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head
The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
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.
Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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