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50 Amazing Quotes by Successful Business Leaders
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.
Clive Davis There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
David Letterman Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
Dan Millman I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.
Kerry Packer Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
Oprah Winfrey If you don't have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.
Zig Ziglar The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.
Zig Ziglar Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It’s a phenomenal lesson.
Bob Proctor 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.
Mary Kay Ash The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
Thomas Edison If they don’t fail outright, most businesses fail to fully achieve their potential. That’s because the person who owns the business doesn’t truly know how to build a company that works without him or her.. which is the key.
Michael Gerber We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Vince Lombardi A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
Ralph Nader People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
Brian Tracy 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 Everybody makes business mistakes. I mean, I take the responsibility, and I did. I was the captain of the ship and I took that responsibility.
Alan Bond We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.
Dick Cheney A culture of discipline is not a principle of business; it is a principle of greatness.
Jim Collins 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 In business, one of the challenges is making sure that your product is the easiest to experience and complete a sale.
Mark Cuban Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.
Michael Dell Why is it that with all the information available today on how to be successful in small business, so few people really are?
Michael Gerber We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
Ray Kroc 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 For us, our most important stakeholder is not our stockholders, it is our customers. We're in business to serve the needs and desires of our core customer base.
John Mackey Regardless of how well a studio is run, it's only as good as the product it produces.
Vince McMahon eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.
Pierre Omidyar Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve.
Bob Parsons Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.
Anita Roddick We want passion for our business.. workers who can interpret and execute our mission, who want to build a career, not just take a temporary job.
Howard Schultz The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.
Kerry Stokes I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
Donald Trump 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 I swore I was going to exclusively collect assets and not liabilities for the rest of my life. I swore never to take gambles I couldn’t back up, or that I couldn’t afford to lose. And, I’ve stuck with that ever since.
Tim Blixseth Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich. The key, I think, is confidence. Confidence and an unshakable belief it can be done and that you are the one to do it.
Felix Dennis What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
Wayne Dyer Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination.
Larry Flynt Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela If you have a task to perform and are vitally interested in it, excited and challenged by it, then you will exert maximum energy. But in the excitement, the pain of fatigue dissipates, and the exuberance of what you hope to achieve overcomes the weariness.
Jimmy Carter Never give in.. never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force.. never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Winston Churchill It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.
Vince Lombardi When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.
Rudy Giuliani 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 I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.
Steve Case The entrepreneur is our visionary, the creator in each of us. We're born with that quality and it defines our lives as we respond to what we see, hear, feel, and experience. It is developed, nurtured, and given space to flourish or is squelched, thwarted, without air or stimulation, and dies.
Michael Gerber
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