Business Success Motivational Quotes
Money, Wealth, Success, Achievement, Leadership, Management
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates
Mentally imagine you are buying the business or applying for the job that will earn your fortune. Review each step you'd take, the obstacles you might meet, the difficulties you would meet. Continue imagining each step until you mentally reach your wealth goal.
Tyler G. Hicks
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
Wayne Dyer
This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.
David Bach
Your needs will be met once you can find a way of projecting energy and fulfilling someone else's need.
Stuart Wilde
"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy".
Norman Schwarzkopf
"Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere".
Albert Einstein
The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I’m stunned by how many people are actually not rich.
Michael Bloomberg
Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.
David Bach
Your mind can just as easily show you an ocean of abundant opportunities, as it can the opposite. Its just depends what you focus upon.
Craig Townsend
I am what I am and, you know, I am a very lucky guy.
Michael Bloomberg
Affluence includes money but is not just money. It is the abundance, the flow, the generosity of the universe, where every desire we have must come true, because inherent in having the desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.
Deepak Chopra
The only one who can tell you 'you cant' is you. And you dont have to listen.
Nike
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Norman Schwarzkopf
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Hugo
Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
Wayne Dyer
Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.
George Van Valkenburg
I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
Alan Greenspan
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight Eisenhower
A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
Brian Tracy
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
Henry Ford
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Henry Ford
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Daniel Webster
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
Life is too complicated not to be orderly.
Martha Stewart
The point to remember about selling things is that, as well as creating atmosphere and excitement around your products, you've got to know what you're selling.
Stuart Wilde
You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.
Jim Stovall
The only way around is through.
Robert Frost
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you dont do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett
You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.
Les Brown
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier
Charles F. Kettering
Whether you think you can or whether you think you cant, you're right!
Henry Ford
Impossible is nothing
Adidas
You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.
Jim Rohn
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.
Oprah Winfrey
"You are totally unique. There has never been anyone like you, ever before - and there will never be anyone like you ever again. So do it your way - because no-one else can".
Craig Townsend
It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.
Bill Gates
Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
William Hazlitt
Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse
Alan Greenspan
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Denis Waitley
I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
Richard Branson
Why did I want to win? Because I didnt want to lose!
Max Schmelling
When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
Bill Clinton
Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
Bill Clinton
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
J. Paul Getty
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
The truth is women in the workplace don’t have to fight nearly as hard for opportunities, or to dispel stereotypes, as they did before.
Suze Orman
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste time.
Henry Ford
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille
What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we dont evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.
Oprah Winfrey
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
Steve Jobs
There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself.
Stuart Wilde
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.
Richard Branson
To succeed... You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Tony Dorsett
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
James Broughton
To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
George Kneller
To the degree we're not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
Peter McWilliams
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Denis Waitley
Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.
Rudy Giuliani
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
Denis Waitley
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life.
Charles M. Schwab
The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.
John Naisbitt
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford
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
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Wayne Dyer
My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.
Michael Gerber
Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.
J. Paul Getty
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
Andrew Carnegie
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
Thomas J. Watson
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Thomas J. Peters
Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.
Peter F. Drucker
Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Success is the ability to fulfill your desires with effortless ease. And yet success, including the creation of wealth, has always been considered to be a process that requires hard work and it is often considered to be at the expense of others. We need a more spiritual approach to success and to affluence which is the abundant flow of all good things to you.
Deepak Chopra
Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Warren Buffett
The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.
Orison Swett Marden
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
John H. Patterson
Every business is built on friendship.
J. C. Penney
Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
H. Ross Perot
A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.
Brian Tracy
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful".
Warren Buffett
Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.
Warren Buffett
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
Brian Tracy
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
Bill Clinton
Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
Bill Clinton
When it comes to helping out, I don’t believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.
Paul Allen
Watch, listen, and learn. You cant know it all yourself.. anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
Donald Trump
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Jeff Bezos
My first six years in the business were hopeless. There are a lot of times when you sit and you say "Why am I doing this? I'll never make it. It's just not going to happen. I should go out and get a real job, and try to survive."
George Lucas
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling
When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
Larry Ellison
I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.
Michael Bloomberg
You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
Brian Tracy
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
Michael Bloomberg
I’m in a relationship with life. My life is just out there. I’m on the road every day. I love my life.
Suze Orman
After you marry, every asset either of you acquires is jointly held. That's why you both need to be in sync on your long-term financial goals, from paying off the mortgage to putting away for retirement. Ideally, you should talk about all this before you wed. If you dont, you can end up deeply frustrated and financially spent.
Suze Orman
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
Jeff Bezos
It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.
Michael Dell
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education--literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Alan Greenspan
Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.
Michael Dell
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You cant truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
Zig Ziglar
A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
Suze Orman
Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an idea, for that matter. We dont trust it until we can see it and feel it.
Win Ng
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth.. both financial affluence and emotional security.
Suze Orman
If you wait until all the lights are "green" before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
Zig Ziglar
I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.
Michael Bloomberg
When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.
Zig Ziglar
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.
Zig Ziglar
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
Robert Kiyosaki
Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.
Robert Kiyosaki
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
Zig Ziglar
You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
B.C. Forbes
You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.
Lee Iacocca
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Alan Greenspan
Those who have succeeded at anything and dont mention luck are kidding themselves.
Larry King
In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people.. they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
Ken Blanchard
Noone's a leader if there are no followers..
Malcolm Forbes
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
Colin Powell
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.
Dale Carnegie
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates
I dont think you ever stop giving. I really dont. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life
Oprah Winfrey
Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
Steven Covey
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Steven Covey
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford
Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
Bill Gates
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Andrew Carnegie
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.
Bill Gates
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
Jeff Bezos
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Jeff Bezos
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.
Bill Gates
Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.
Bill Gates
I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life.. it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
Walt Disney
People first, then money, then things.
Suze Orman
Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.
Donald Trump
We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough. In fact, the way software works.. so long as you are using your existing software.. you dont pay us anything at all. So we're only paid for breakthroughs.
Bill Gates
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Steve Jobs
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
Tryon Edwards
The noblest search is the search for excellence
Lyndon B. Johnson
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
Steve Jobs
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett
We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
Ray Kroc
Our favourite holding period is forever.
Warren Buffett
We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
Ray Kroc
I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
Richard Branson
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D Eisenhower
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
Jeff Bezos
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Richard Branson
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
Alan Greenspan Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Lee Iacocca
The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
Alan Greenspan
The greatest good we can do for others is not just to share our riches with them, but to reveal theirs.
Zig Ziglar
It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.
Zig Ziglar
I have a problem with too much money. I cant reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.
Robert Kiyosaki
I am convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualisation and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.
Steven Covey
Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren Buffett
Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.
Donald Trump
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Steven Covey
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
Robert Kiyosaki
There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I dont like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I dont spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.
Michael Dell
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
Robert Kiyosaki
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Steve Jobs
Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.
Richard Branson
Whatever you fear most has no power.. it is your fear that has the power.
Oprah Winfrey
What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
Oprah Winfrey
It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
Alan Greenspan
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
Steven Covey
Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.
Steven Covey
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
Alan Greenspan
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
Wayne Dyer
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
Oprah Winfrey
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
Oprah Winfrey
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
Walt Disney
It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
Ray Kroc
If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
Ray Kroc
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Wayne Dyer
In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential.. it's no different in the financial realm.
Suze Orman
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
Henry Ford
If the boss is a jerk, get over it. First of all, don’t you think there’s a good chance that your boss’s boss knows what’s going on? If so, just keep your head down and do the work. Usually, if you put in maximum effort and produce excellent results, someone in the company is going to take notice. Either you will get promoted or your jerky boss will get the heave-ho. It happens all the time.
Suze Orman
Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it’s not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it’s all of us.
Michael Bloomberg
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Brian Tracy
You cant know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide ranging your experience, there is simply no way to acquire all the wisdom you need to make your business thrive.
Donald Trump
Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, “what is the most valuable use of my time right now?”
Brian Tracy
It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
Oprah Winfrey
We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I dont feel that anymore.
Oprah Winfrey
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
Brian Tracy
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
Ray Kroc
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your oals.
Brian Tracy
Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other.
Zig Ziglar
Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?
Steve Jobs
Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.
Michael Dell
There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
Wayne Dyer
The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we dont design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We dont really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.
Michael Dell
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing.. that's why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar
I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself.
Brian Tracy
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
Bill Clinton
The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
Bill Gates
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
Rudy Giuliani
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
Alan Greenspan
There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.
Rudy Giuliani
In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.
Bill Clinton
The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.
Denis Waitley
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Denis Waitley
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they dont play together, the club wont be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they cant do.
Denis Waitley
"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got"
Mark Twain