Quotes on Successful 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.

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

The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

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

Consider what it takes for successful businessmen and businesswomen, effective entrepreneurs and hardworking associates, shrewd retirees and idealistic students to combine forces with a creative pastor to grow a "successful church" today. Clearly, it doesn't require the power of God to draw a crowd in our culture. A few key elements that we can manufacture will suffice.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

When it comes to solving problems of poverty, impact investing can act as a catalyst, but it is not a silver bullet. Successful businesses serving the poor need more than investment capital. They also need infrastructure to enable effective distribution, strong regulatory systems, access to markets, technical assistance as they scale up, and more

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

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.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

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

If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.

If you want a successful business, your people must feel that you are working for them - not that they are working for you.

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

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

Your voice can change the world.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.