Successful Quotes

Every successful venture is based on an unoriginal idea, beautifully executed.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

People submit tooeasily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, wheneverthey consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what theyare giving up, never what they are about to gain

~ Chris Murray

The most successful entrepreneur that every lived (God) was and is successful because Jesus and the Holy Spirit showed they cared for poor lost souls. They were willing share knowledge and demonstrate how things should be done. Not one successful entrepreneur has every done it alone or has not had help from another. Teaching and working together is becoming a lost art. The lack of this may seem like job security for the some, but it's not. The one who does this must come to the realization that his security is threaten by the desperate fuel by his own selfishness. Even inventors have to find caring distributors who get their products out before the masses. Perseverance is just a link in the chain of success. 99% of the chain is sharing knowledge and showing that you care. The opposite of this is fleeting success. Success that is like a vapor, here one moment and gone the next.

~ Delaine Robins

Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Pay attention to the behavior of the most successful people.

~ Steve Maraboli

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful idiots are always asking, What's in it for me?

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Such attitudes are active and definite factors in creating satisfactory conditions. Watch your manner of speech then if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

To be real successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish; then resolve to pay the price to get it.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

I don't want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who died. I want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who left and actually did something with her life. Then died.

~ Ally Spina

The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.

~ John Paul Dejoria

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives.

~ Alexander Osterwalder

The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.

~ James Cash Penney

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

~ Thomas J. Watson

Business cycles naturally entail peaks and troughs in employment, and socially responsible businesses should follow successful examples like Coca-Cola, Alcoa, Saudi Aramco, Africa Rainbow Minerals, and Google in working toward mitigating joblessness and enhancing people's abilities to earn a livelihood.

~ Klaus Schwab

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

~ Bill Gates

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

~ Rutherford B. Hayes

The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.

~ Billy Beane

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

~ Noel Gallagher

The chief executive officer is also the chief sales officer. He or she is responsible for the success of the company and making a profit. The closer the CEO is to the everyday selling process, bringing in business, the more successful the company will become.

~ Jeffrey Gitomer

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

~ Roy L. Smith

It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still.

~ Robert Herjavec

One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.

~ Elmer Bernstein

After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful.

~ Nelson Piquet

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

~ Barack Obama

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

~ Freeman Dyson

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

~ Henry Ward Beecher

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

~ Glenn Beck

It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door.

~ Kevin Sorbo

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

~ William James

I always thought of myself as more American than Americans when I was living in Germany, because I always had this attitude of can-do, and if you're successful, you can show it, which is a very un-German thing, you know.

~ Kim Dotcom

If you look at the Internet, the vast majority of start-ups are not successful. But the ones that are, are very very successful. So you can't point to the unsuccessful ones and say, 'There's no hope for this field.' It's just that they had the wrong idea or they had bad execution.

~ Evan Williams

You have no idea what you get involved in when you start a role. You just hope that it's going to be successful.

~ Michelle Fairley

I do respect them; I have great respect for women. In fact, one of the reasons 'The Apprentice' was such a successful show for so many years, the audience of women was fantastic.

~ Donald Trump

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

~ Jay Weatherill

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

~ Chin-Ning Chu

Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.

~ Mel Carnahan

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

~ Thomas Jefferson

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

~ Leo Tolstoy

'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.

~ Fabrizio Moreira

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all. You don't have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It's that fear of going back down.

~ Jay-Z