Successful Business Quotes

The one that sticks out in my mind and has all along was the New York Times piece on Melania Trump.Calling her a mannequin and a trophy wife, which if anybody had ever said that about any - Michelle Obama was a lawyer. But Melania Trump has been a successful businesswoman. She speaks several languages. A mannequin and a trophy wife and it was just - fine, they were allowed to say that about her.

I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business. Remember many new businesses do not make it and running a business will be a tough experience, involving long hours and many hard decisions - it helps to have that passion to keep you going.

I am a big believer that you can have a successful business and give back; it's just about the intention behind starting your business. Of course, your margins aren't going to be as good as they would be if you were just a straight consumer goods fashion company, but obviously the purpose is so much greater. It takes some balancing to figure out how much you can afford to give, but it's definitely possible - and all the more meaningful, if you can strike that balance.

The more successful enterprises are the more they try to replicate, duplicate, codify what makes us great. And suddenly they're inward thinking. They're thinking how can we continue to do what we've done in the past without understanding that what made them successful is to take risks, to change and to adapt and to be responsive. And so in a sense success breeds its own failure. And I think it's true of a lot of successful businesses.

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

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.

I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future.

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

To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business?

You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye.

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

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

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.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

To distract from the president's disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney's career as a successful businessman.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

I think the opposite version of me is the one we don't see, which is there are tens of thousands of outrageously successful businesses of very quiet, very calculated, calm executors who are confident. You can't be successful without being confident. They believe in themselves. They have their own version of assertiveness ... I think confidence matters and I think other things matter, like I would tell you empathy is probably why I'm more successful than confidence. I'm empathic to the customer, to my business partners, to my employees.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

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

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

Humility means that you have the courage to accept that you are eternity itself.

First, I would say, is ideology. I have never spoken to any member of these groups, not just ISIS, but also Al Qaeda, Shabab, etc., who wasn't driven by the ideology. Beyond that, a lot of people are wounded in some way - they've fallen out of society in some manner. All of the ones I've spoken to seem to have veered off course from lives we consider acceptable and successful. Of course, there are others like Osama bin Laden, who was a wealthy and successful businessperson.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!