Top 1200 Business Success Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

Everything you need to know about success is inside of you, because I believe it is inside of all of us. That is, all human beings have potential for infinite success.

The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.

I think that Corbyn's success, just as the success of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, is a reflection of this frustration that people have that whatever they do, in terms of voting for different parties, nothing much seems to change.

I never feel that because of my presence a film will taste success. A film's success or failure does not totally depend on me.

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and I didn't feel personally connected to the level of success I had with it - the success of sorts, I guess.

The essence of a good investment manager is one who studies a given business and extrapolates the future cash flows that the business is likely to generate over the next several years. Based on the cash flow and asset assessment, they can then arrive at their expected rate of return if they bought a fraction of that business at a given price.

Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.

When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.

Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.

Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.

I've had a lot of success by myself, but it's not good when you can't go and accomplish things as a team and have success as a team.

For years, people have been trying to talk to me about doing a show, and I wouldn't do one because I'm a serious business guy. I'm not going to do a stupid show. So, the opportunity came up with CNBC, and we started talking. It became a real business show. It's educational, people watch it, and it's great for small business.

Some people who were central to former success aren't the right people for your future success.

Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

Success on one project does not necessarily mean success in the next project. You've got to be prepared in everything you do.

Data drives success. That is how we began our success with eSpeed. It was always based on the data.

One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.

One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.

Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

From the very beginning Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.

One Dilbert Blog reader noted that current research shows that happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. That makes sense to me. There's plenty of research about people having a baseline of happiness that doesn't vary much with circumstances. And given that happy people are typically optimistic, energetic, and fun to work with, I can see how happiness would lead to success.

For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

I'm still committed to the success of the U.K. and the belief of the strong intelligence and passion and determination of the British people. I'm a strong believer of their long-term historical success.

Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?

Personal success means nothing if it isn't aligned with the success of the team. I consider myself to be a team player more than anything else.

Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.

People often ask me for the secret to success. Usually, they mean success in the music industry, but I think the answer applies to most things in life: always persevere and never give up.

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

I think the model of The CW Network is really built on the fan platform more than anything else. The success or longevity of a series has less to do with the number it's pulling and more to do with the social footprint... There is a lot about the fan support on a strictly business level that's really powerful for that network.

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

Your leadership skills determine the level of your success, and the success of those who work around you.

Success is not success without a successor.

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

You can't have success without trust. The word trust embodies almost everything you can strive for that will help you to succeed. You tell me any human relationship that works without trust, whether it is a marriage or a friendship or a social interaction; in the long run, the same thing is true about business, especially businesses that deal with people.

I don't know if somehow success has made me conservative. With every passing year and with every success, I get more aware of the responsibility on my shoulders.

Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Intelligence as opposed to our IQ or our level of experience. As we look for the next crop of future CEOs, maybe it's time for America's corporations to start interviewing grads from the psychology master's programs rather than the M.B.A. programs.

I keep telling people that the secret of their success is discovered in their daily agenda. What they do daily is going to determine their success.

A lot of the magic that is behind success can be unlocked through mentorships. Mentorships are a fundamental part of the success equation.

You will never realize success on the outside until you can see it clearly o the inside. Success is inside out.

The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success.

Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.

I think success breeds success.

There is great effort to balance the short term with the long term. How are we trying to achieve sustained success? That includes success now.

In life, success begets success.

When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.

It's true that if it's always going to be that if you win the World Cup or European Championship, you're a success, and if you don't, you're a failure, then you're bedding yourself for a lack of success because there aren't many coaches who have won those things, and there are thousands who haven't.

That's the history of art - you have to consider yourself fortunate if you ever get acknowledged. If you have a critical success that's also a financial success and that you feel good about... If things line up, that's pretty rare.

Once you have success, you have to maintain success.

The success doesn't define you. The success isn't what gave you the edge in the first place. The failure didn't give me the edge, either.

The first thing I did was commit to my success and playing to win. I swore I would focus and not even consider leaving this business until I was a millionaire or more. This was radically different from my previous efforts, where, because I always thought short-term, I would constantly get side-tracked by either good opportunities or when things got tough.

People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

Success is a very dangerous thing and I think we have to be very careful about when we dictate what success is for somebody else. Because you don't know what it's like.

You look at success and thank God and the fans for the success. It's why I always feel indebted to the fans.