Are you starting your own business in 2017, have been the
CEO of your own enterprise for a while now, or are just motivated to achieve big
things in the business world this coming year? One of the key attributes of
almost all successful business men and women is that they are constantly
learning. There are two ways to do this: learning by experience and doing, and
then by studying the lessons of other successful people. In fact, there are
very clear road maps to help us achieve great things in the business world – we
just have to take advantage of them. So to start, we’ve assembled the 50 best
quotations about business, sales, and success you’ll ever read.
1. "I find
that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
-Thomas Jefferson
2. "People
who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to
succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is
failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a
self-fulfilling prophecy."
-Tony Robbins
3. "Don't
let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning."
-Robert Kiyosaki
4. "The
way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
-Walt Disney
5. "The
successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."
-Bruce Lee
6. "It is
better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
-Herman Melville
7. "Success
usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
-Henry David Thoreau
8. "Don't
be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
-John D. Rockefeller
9. "There
are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in
this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed."
-Ray Goforth
10. "If you
are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the
ordinary."
-Jim Rohn
11. "All
progress takes place outside the comfort zone."
-Michael John Bobak
12. "I
cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for
failure--It is: Try to please everybody."
-Herbert Bayard Swope
13. "A
successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other
throw at him."
14. -David
Brinkley
15. "Don't
be distracted by criticism. Remember--the only taste of success some people get
is to take a bite out of you."
-Zig Ziglar
16. "The
secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."
-John D. Rockefeller Jr.
17. “Time is the
friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.”
-Warren Buffet
18. "Try not
to become a man of success, but rather a man of value."
-Albert Einstein
19. “A business
that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
-Henry Ford
20. “Always bear
in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other
one thing.”
-Abraham Lincoln
21. “When you
delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great
enterprise in America has sprung from the courage enterprise of some
individuals.”
-B.C. Forbes
22. “Timing,
perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an
overnight success.”
-Biz Stone
23. “Stay
self-funded as long as possible.”
-Garrett Camp
24. “You don’t
learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.”
-Sir Richard Branson
25. “Your most
unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
-Bill Gates
26. “Any business
plan won’t survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be
different. It will never be the plan.”
-Jeff Bezos
27. “Chase the
vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.”
-Tony Hsieh
28. “What do you
need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than
anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.”
-Dave Thomas
29. “The biggest
risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing really quickly, the
only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
-Mark Zuckerberg
30. “There are no
secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning
from failure.”
-Colin Powell
31. “There is
only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the
chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”
-Sam Walton
32. “In the
business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the
experience first; the cash will come later.”
-Harold S. Geneen
33. “Start with
good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them
and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.”
-Lee Iacocca
34. “Ideas pull
the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.”
-Don Marquis
35. “Sometimes
when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get
on with improving your other innovations.”
-Steve Jobs
36. “Most of the
important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on
trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
-Dale Carnegie
37. “Sales are
contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the
prospect.”
-W. Clement Stone
38. “One of the
tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an
emergency.”
-Arnold H. Glasow
39. “I want to
put a ding in the universe.”
-Steve Jobs
40. “People are
definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether
the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it
keeps.”
-Mary Kay Ash
41. “Do more than
is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals
consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The
extra mile.”
-Gary Ryan Blair
42. “Being good
in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and
working is art and good business is the best art.”
-Andy Warhol
43. “Profit in
business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project
or service, and that bring friends with them.”
-W. Edwards Deming
44. “Every day I
get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If
I'm not there, I go to work.”
-Robert Orben
45. “It's easy to
make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.”
-Tom Brokaw
46. “Anyone who
has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the
urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.”
-Tim Berners-Lee
47. “Punctuality
is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your
subordinates.”
-Don Marquis
48. “I am
certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am
the prod.”
-Winston Churchill
49. “The majority
of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new
plans to take the place of those which fail.”
-Napoleon Hill
50. “Markets
change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to
compete in those markets must change.”
-An Wang
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