Business Famous Quote & Quotes

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it. ~Peter Drucker

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand. ~Bruce Barton, advertising executive

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow~~that is patience. ~Source Unknown

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome. ~Samuel Johnson (1709~1784) English Author

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John Wooden, basketball coach

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Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others. ~David Seabury

High expectations are the key to everything. ~Sam Walton, entrepreneur

The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist. ~J. Harold Wilkins

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. ~Albert Schweitzer

Long range planning does not deal with future decisions but with the future of present decisions. ~Peter F. Drucker (1909~2005)

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A genius is a talented person who does his homework. ~Thomas Edison, inventor

If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? ~John Wooden, basketball coach

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. ~Thomas A. Edison (1847~1931) American Inventor

Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. ~Peter F. Drucker, business consultant, author

Concentrate your powers. Identify what you are particularly good at doing and do more of it. ~Brian Tracy

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The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward. ~Igor Sikorsky

I learned more from the one restaurant that didn’t work than from all the ones that were successes. ~Wolfgang Puck, chef, restaurateur

Every idea you present must be something you could get across easily at a cocktail party with strangers. ~Jack Welch

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in not giving up. ~Tommy Lasorda

It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit. ~Robert Yates

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Business Famous Quote 21-25

Don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love, inspiration and hard work. I don’t think you can go wrong. ~Ella Fitzgerald

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is lost forever. ~David B. Norris

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering. ~Carl Hubbell

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do. ~Michael Korda

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ~Abraham Lincoln

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern~day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier. ~Paula Nelson

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right. ~Walt Disney

Genius Is One Percent Inspiration, Ninety~Nine Percent Perspiration. ~Thomas Edison

What helps people, helps business. ~Leo Burnett, Pioneer American advertising executive, 1891~1971

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Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t all that. You can be discouraged by failure—or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that’s where you will find success. ~Thomas J. Watson

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. ~Confucius

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. ~Colin Powell

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation. ~Jack Nicklaus, 'My Story'

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. ~H. L. Hunt

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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. ~John Locke

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~Leo Tolstoy

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard

The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Stephen Covey

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. ~Benjamin Disraeli

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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ~James Thurber

All things are difficult before they are easy. ~Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. ~Richard Bach

Don't try to be great at all things. Pick a few things to be good at and be the best you can. ~Liz Ashe

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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Business Famous Quote 46-50

Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guy's out dancing. ~Buddy Hackett

Most successful men have not achieved distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand. ~Bruce Barton

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone. ~Louis L' Amour

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. ~Richard Bach

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. ~Brian Tracy

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Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: If we can take the worst, take the risk. ~Dr. Joyce Brothers

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ~Aristotle

Leaders don't create followers. They create more leaders. ~Tom Peters

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The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example. ~Thomas Morell

Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be. ~Helen Keller

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes. ~Oprah Winfrey

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas A. Edison

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. ~George Sand

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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. ~Vince Lombardi

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to lose it. ~Warren Buffett

Great hopes make everything great possible. ~Benjamin Franklin

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it. ~Brian Tracy

Without discipline, there's no life at all. ~Katharine Hepburn

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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance. And be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before. ~William Bernbach

For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you. ~Brian Tracy

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words. ~Brian Tracy

Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results. ~Brian Tracy

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~Thomas A. Edison

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward. ~Helen Keller

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. ~Brendan Francis

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety~nine percent perspiration. ~Thomas A. Edison

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. ~Benjamin Franklin, 'Poor Richard's Almanack,' June 1746

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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. ~Denis Waitley

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. ~Peter Drucker

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. ~Jim Rohn

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803~1882) Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. ~Christopher Morley

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The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. ~Thomas Edison

Ask advice only of your equals. ~Danish Proverb

Effective leaders are not preachers, they are doers. ~Peter Drucker, Management expert

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. ~John C. Maxwell, Leadership consultant

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan. ~Norman Vincent Peale (1898~1993), Clergyman and writer

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A lot of people have great ideas, but nothing in the world is cheaper than a good idea with no action. ~Anonymous

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. ~Frank Lloyd Wright

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies. ~William Wrigley Jr.

The question isn’t, do you make mistakes? It’s, do you learn from them? ~Peter Drucker

A good mentor or manager builds on people’s strengths and helps them make their weaknesses irrelevant. ~A Drucker Truism

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. ~Johnny Carson

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. ~Peter Drucker

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ~Peter Drucker

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. ~Peter Drucker

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. ~Johann von Goethe

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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. ~Sophia Loren

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you will have to win their hearts to have them work with you. ~William J. H. Boetcker, Clergyman

The job of leadership today is not just to make money. It's to make meaning. ~John Seely Brown Research center director

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago? ~Bernice Fitz~Gibbon

I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun? ~Helen Thomas, Journalist

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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. ~Oprah Winfrey

The best way to motivate other people to help you fulfill your goals is to help them fulfill their goals. ~Deepak Chopra, Physician and writer

One man with courage makes a majority. ~Andrew Jackson

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this something, at whatever cost, must be attained. ~Marie Curie

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. ~Winston Churchill

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The world we live in is first and foremost shaped by the mind. ~Charles Johnson, Writer

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. ~Charles Kettering (1876~1958), Inventor

As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big. ~Donald Trump

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination. ~Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. ~Samuel Butler (1835~1902), English Writer

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Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent return on energy! ~Brian Tracy

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst. ~Dale Carnegie

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. ~Woodrow Wilson

Everything is always impossible before it works. ~Hunt Greene, Businessman

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. ~Henry Ford

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