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Good Business Quotes About Success

Failure is just the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~ Henry Ford

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. ~ Napoleon Hill, Author

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

Failures are divided into two classes – those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. ~ John Charles Salak

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. ~ Jim Rohn

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. he must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. ~ Charles M. Schwab

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. ~ Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Whom the gods wish to destroy they send 40 years of success. ~ Ancient Proverb

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ~ Will Rogers

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life ~ mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical. ~ Julius Erving

Confidence is contagious; so is lack of confidence. ~ Vince Lombardi

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. ~ Sven Goran Eriksson

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. ~ Herbert B. Swope, American Journalist

Greatness is won, not awarded. ~ Guy Kawasaki, How To Drive Your Competition Crazy

The secret to success in business is to know something that nobody else knows. ~ Aristotle Onassis

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. ~ Vince Lombardi

Good Business Quotes About Change

The things we fear most in organizations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.” ~ Margaret J. Wheatley, Management Consultant

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. ~ Dan Quayle

To succeed, or even just to survive, businesses need to be able to change in ways, and at times, determined by business drivers, not by their IT systems. ~ Tony Morgan, Business Rules and Information Systems: Aligning IT with Business Goals

Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal . ~ Albert Einstein

A body in motion stays in motion. A body at rest stays at rest. ~ Newton's First Law of Motion

People get into a rhythm that makes them resistant to change. To understand the mind-set, try switching hands when you brush your teeth in the morning. ~ Gary Gesme, Deere & Co.

Individuals and organizations that are good react quickly to change. Individuals and organizations that are great create change. ~ Robert Kriegel, Sacred Cows Make The Best Burgers

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. ~ Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. ~ Sir Winston Churchill

The only certain thing about a forecast is that it will be wrong. ~ From Lean Thinking (Womack and Jones)

Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Without [taking a process perspective of business], business improvement efforts amount to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. ~ Michael Hammer & James Champy, Reengineering The Corporation

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. ~ Andy Warhol

People are the gatekeepers of change. ~ Robert Kriegel, Sacred Cows Make The Best Burgers

How fast you are moving is more important than where you are. ~ Guy Kawasaki, Rules for Revolutionaries

There is a theory that paradigms break through on the fringe of your business before they reach the center. ~ Gary Gesme, Deere & Co.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. ~ Senator Everett Dirksen "Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end. ~ Anonymous

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. ~ Dee Hock, Founder of Visa

It doesn’t work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps. ~ American Proverb

Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do. ~ Michael Hammer & James Champy, Reengineering The Corporation

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. ~ Charles Kettering, Engineer

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity knows no bounds. ~ Elbert Hubbard, American Philosopher

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. ~ Epictetus

If things seem under control, you’re just not going fast enough. ~ Mario Andretti

The first problem for us all, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. ~ Gloria Steinem

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. ~ Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future

Realism is just another name for yesterday's thinking. ~ Robert Kriegel, Sacred Cows Make The Best Burgers

Judge a man by his questions, not by his answers. ~ Voltaire

Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened. ~ Proverb

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Incrementalism is innovation’s worst enemy. ~ Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. ~ Laurence J. Peter

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. ~ Andy Warhol

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ~ Charles Darwin

Change is inevitable, except from vending machines. ~ Unknown

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. ~ Everett Dirksen

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ~ Alan Kay, father of the personal computer

Good Business Quotes About Competition

Pigs get fat, but hogs get slaughtered.

Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. ~ Gary Hamel, Business Writer

When you compete with a person, you only have to be as good or better than the person to win. If you compete with yourself, there is no limitation to how good you can be. ~ Chu Chin-Ning

Fight fair, but avoid fair fights. ~ John Czepiel

If it ain’t broke, break it (or someone else will break it for you). ~ Tom Peters

Good Business Quotes About Learning

The word ‘Genius’ isn’t applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. ~ Joe Theisman

’Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. ~ Attributed to Abraham Lincoln

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. ~ Isaac Asimov

Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.

Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing. ~ Warren Buffet

Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness. ~ Earl of Derby, British Prime Minister

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, US Journalist (1913-1983)

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ~ Mark Twain

If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts. ~ Albert Einstein

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. ~ Eric Hoffer, American Social Philosopher

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting. ~ Lord Halifax

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ~ Benjamin Franklin

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~ Pablo Picasso

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. ~ Albert Einstein

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying. ~ Coleman Hawkins, Jazz Musician

Good Business Quotes About Leadership

You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn’t go by yourself. ~ Joel Barker, Future Edge

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision and a task are the hope of the world. From a church in Sussex, England, c. 1730

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. ~ Duke of Windsor

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. ~ Chinese proverb

With ISO 9000 you can still have terrible processes and products. You can certify a manufacturer that makes life jackets out of concrete… ~ Richard Buetow, Motorola

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~ Japanese proverb

In the long run, you only hit what you aim at. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ~ C.S. Lewis

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. ~ Arthur Koestler

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~ Mark Twain

Goals determine what you're going to be ~ Julius Erving

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. ~ Zig Ziglar

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing. ~ Winston Churchill

To drift is to be in hell; to be in heaven is to steer. ~ George Bernard Shaw

If you come to a fork in the road, take it. ~ Yogi Berra

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. ~ Yogi Berra

An organization becomes bewildered rather than energized when it’s asked to do too much at once. ~ Michael Hammer & James Champy, Reengineering The Corporation If you try to do something and fail, you are vastly better off than if you had tried nothing and succeeded. ~ Fortune in fortune cookie

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist. ~ Oscar Wilde, Poet

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. ~ Dr. Carl Sagan, Astronomer

You can celebrate accomplishments, but after a while, you need to start celebrating the speed at which you’re traveling instead of the destination you’ve reached. ~ Max Guinn, Deere & Co.

If all you have is a hammer in the toolbox, everything looks like a nail. ~ Bernard Baruch, Financial Genius

Those who say it cannot be done should get out of the way of those who are doing it. ~ Anonymous

Successful organizations make habits of things others don’t like to do, or don’t find time to do. ~ Don House

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. ~ Joseph Pulitzer, Editor

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. ~ Paul Valery, Poet

The only muscle that you’ve got is in between your ears. ~ Ned’s Atomic Dustbin

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. ~ Marie Curie Nobel Prize Winning Physicist

A good design is not a democratic consensus. ~ Edward de Bono, Six Action Shoes

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. ~ J.A.F. Thibault

If you want a thing well done, do it yourself. ~ Charles Spurgeon

After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how she might have been saved. ~ Italian proverb

Don't wait. The time will never be just right. ~ Napoleon Hill

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it. ~ Stan Smith

The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult. ~ Guy Kawasaki, Rules for Revolutionaries

The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another negotiation . ~ Leigh Steinberg, Sports Agent

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

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. ~ Albert Einstein

There’s something inherently funny about self-reference. ~ Dr. Steven Gimbel, Philosopher, Author

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. ~ Charles R. Swindoll, American Writer

If you concede the obvious you’re conceding nothing, but you gain back credibility. That’s a trade you should make every time. ~ Mark Katz, former Clinton Humor Speech Writer

Leadership is the art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations. ~ Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner, The Leadership Challenge

There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t. ~ Gloria Steinham

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ~ John Locke

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences. ~ Robert Bly Become a Recognized Authority in Your Field in 60 Days or Less!

Speed is useful only if you are running in the right direction. ~ Joel Barker Future Edge

If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention. ~ Tom Peters

Good Business Quotes About Quality

That which is measured improves. ~ Old Business Adage

The customer is a rear-view mirror, not a guide to the future. ~ George Colony, Forrester Research

When cost is number one in importance, you’ve already lost. ~ Jim Rembach, Six Sigma Consultant

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. ~ William Lyon Phelps, American Author

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs. ~ Harold S. Geneen

All work is creative work if done by a thinking mind. ~ Ayn Rand, From Atlas Shrugged

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. ~ Frank Herbert in Dune

The minute you’re satisfied with where you are, you aren’t there anymore. ~ Tony Gwynn, Hall of Fame Baseball player

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ~ Harold Geneen

You can’t improve anything if you can’t define it. ~ Max Guinn, Deere & Co.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. ~ W. Edwards Deming

Without customers, you don't have a business. You have a hobby. ~ Don Peppers & Martha Rogers, Return on Customer

Without caring there can be no quality. ~ Joel Barker, Future Edge

It isn’t uncommon for managers at senior levels of large organizations to be so out of touch with customer or production reality that they don’t know just how broken some of their business processes are. ~ Michael Hammer & James Champy, Reengineering The Corporation

Hanging a sign on a cow that says ‘I am a horse’ does not make it a horse. ~ Unknown

Customers, I realized, don’t care about functions or specific activities that occur within our organization. The end game is whether they are getting the right product at the right time at a competitive price. ~ Max Guinn, Deere & Co.

The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work. ~ Ayn Rand

If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my ax. ~ Abraham Lincoln

You can’t blame the pen or the paper if you write a lousy essay, right? ~ Laura Bergells, Presentation Consultant

Good Business Quotes About Money and Profit

The one absolute requirement of a money manager is emotional maturity. If you don't know who you are, the stock market is an expensive place to find out. ~ Adam Smith

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. ~ Henry Ford

Money is a kind of poetry. ~ Wallace Stevens

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ~ Woody Allen

A small debt produced a debtor; a large one, an enemy. ~ Publius Syrus

Little by little you can safely stack up a strong reserve here, but not until after you start. ~ Sign in a bank window

There is a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having... money in the bank. ~ Tim Robbins

The stock market is people. ~ Bernard Baruch

Having a quote machine on your desk is like having a slot machine there. ~ Ed Seykora

Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like "Psychic Wins Lottery"? ~ Jay Leno

Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does. ~ Nick Murray

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. ~ Standard disclaimer

A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it is all gone. ~ Woody Allen

Trust everybody, but yourself most of all. ~ Danish proverb

You can shear a sheep many times, but you can only sell it once. ~ Vermont Proverb

People seem to me to be happiest when they are working for nothing and can afford to do so. ~ Robert Lynd

Risk is the chance of loss, and for most of history it was viewed as that. There is a chance I'm going to lose.

But in the capitalist system, risk is also an opportunity. Nothing ventured, nothing gained is as important to keep in mind and the fear that if I don't manage my affairs, I can get wiped out. ~ Peter Bernstein

In investing money, the amount of interest you want should depend on whether you want to eat well or sleep well. ~ J. Kenfield Morley

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. ~ Lord Dewar

I am proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. ~ Arthur Godfrey

It's a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing. ~ Will Rogers

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

From fortune to misfortune is but a step; from misfortune to fortune is a long way. ~ Yiddish proverb

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does. ~ Joe Garagiola

You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. ~ Jim Rohn

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. ~ Buddha

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