The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
- Andrew Carnegie
- Andrew Carnegie
A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin
Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself.. anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
- Donald Trump
- Donald Trump
The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.
- Brian Tracy
- Brian Tracy
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.
- Thomas Watson
- Thomas Watson
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two.
- Lee Iacocca
- Lee Iacocca
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
- Jim Rohn
- Jim Rohn
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
- Roy L. Smith
- Roy L. Smith
You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business.
- Chris Corrigan
- Chris Corrigan
A good plan implemented today is beter than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow.
- George S. Patton
- George S. Patton
The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place
- Orison Swett Marden
- Orison Swett Marden
If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.
- Isaac Mophatlane
- Isaac Mophatlane
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
- J. Paul Getty
- J. Paul Getty
Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
- Napoleon Hill
- Napoleon Hill
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
- Bill Gates
- Bill Gates
To be successful, you have to be able to relate to people; they have to be satisfied with your personality to be able to do business with you and to build a relationship with mutual trust.
- George Ross
- George Ross
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
- Jack Welch
- Jack Welch
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
- Harold Geneen
- Harold Geneen
I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.
- Steve Ballmer
- Steve Ballmer