Top 1200 Successful Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I was working with an extraordinarily successful company that was doing a CEO succession, and the board was discussing the threats to the business. They were enormous, despite the company's strong market position. I then realized that there were no longer just turn-around periods for companies in trouble, that now variables that could drastically effect any business's profitability were not going to go away.

As much as you need to know your operations, if you don't understand the finance side and how to do the business, you're never going to be successful. So you might be the best operator or visionary, but if you don't understand the finance side... I'm successful because I know the finance side, but I also know operations; it's not an accident.

If you have a strong business idea, then it is comparatively easy now to get capital. It is a positive thing that increasingly more people want to join the startup bandwagon. However, to build a successful business, focus on creating more value through the product, and direct your efforts on solving real issues. If you manage to build a sustainable product, revenue will follow. A lot of startups fail because they concentrate on incremental innovations, increasing user base, and monetisation before strengthening the core of their business.

I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks.

Was I a successful father? Maybe not. Was I a successful husband? Probably not. Was I a successful actor? Probably not.

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.

Paying people a fair wage is a sign of respect and acknowledgement of the value of people's contributions to the business. When people are treated fairly and with respect, they will provide unparalleled levels of support and commitment inside the business, and to clients and customers. Everyone is more successful when people are paid a living wage.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

I often see people who I think could be really successful in business but they just don't realise they have the skills and they don't believe in themselves.

It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.

A successful team, in sports or business, extends from the top of management down to the guys at the bottom of the roster or organizational chart.

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

I think the responsibility of running a huge business, which happens if you become a successful designer, probably makes you more careful.

As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those things which God ordained to be the common lot of all mankind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman.

There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]

I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

Every successful business professional I know is constantly learning, reading, growing in their field.

We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.

The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have; I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.

Wrestling pretty much consumes my thoughts. I think for people that are really successful in this business, that's the way it is.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it wont be successful.

There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors. To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game. The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Take care of your customers, and you will have a successful business. Don't, and you won't. The airlines need to figure this out - soon.

You can be as creative as you want to and build all these cool projects, but ultimately, if they're not successful and you don't have the business structure in place, everything will flop.

The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

God has blessed me with a wonderful family, a successful business, and outstanding employees. I do not take these blessings lightly.

I think everybody wants everybody to be successful. There is that competitive nature, in a sense that everybody wants to be the best, but if A.J. Styles is more successful, and Braun Strowman is more successful, that makes the company more successful.

I have been in business a long time. I never had a successful relationship or partnership with any entity by issuing an ultimatum.

I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.

Companies will need to pursue a more diversified business model, but I think those companies that have what I call a focused diversified business model will be more successful.

I routinely make trips to China and India where we have offices to continue to maintain the linkages that are necessary to run a successful business.

It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.

In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.

For actors, being successful is generally getting a job. If you can work a lot, you're really successful. If you work a lot on projects that are interesting and intelligent and great fun to be part of, then you're hugely successful. And I feel hugely successful. I can't believe that I get to be involved with the projects and the people I work with.

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.

I dont have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

We've always operated on the thesis that a company can have a personality, that people can be themselves, and be very successful in business at the same time.

Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.

I was so moved by music that I wanted to create it as well, but once you decide that's what you want to do with your life, to be successful, you have to be business-minded, too.

If you get out there and push and you really work your brand like a business you will be successful.

When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work.

My wife has a line of fine Indian foods, that's kind of a very successful business. It's an interesting way to see life.

Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

In the fashion business, there weren't any rules. In fact, the better you were at creating something new, the greater the likelihood you would be successful.

I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background.

Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things, and you can become real successful. The disadvantage is, of course the negative media. People may try to manipulate you and control you, and those are the things you have to avoid. But if you maintain strong family values and you believe in God, you can be successful. So, it's been tough, but I've gotten through it because I stuck with my family and my deep belief in God.