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Quotes About Discipline

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.
~ Tom Peters
You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.
~ Jim Cantalupo
Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
~ Benjamin Franklin
In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
~ E. B. White
In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.
~ Roger Staubach
A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.
~ James C. Collins
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
~ James Russell Lowell
Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.
~ Richard Cecil
You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.
~ Anna Deavere Smith
Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.
~ Howard Schultz
Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
~ Carroll O'Connor
I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me.
~ Mike Quade
When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.
~ Otis Redding
If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.
~ Joey Lauren Adams
Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.
~ Anthea Turner
A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.
~ Robert Breault
If you want your blog to be a business one day, treat it as one today.
~ Darren Rowse
Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.
~ Eli Broad
I don't like you two going off on you won. Just remember: behave. If I hear about any funny business, I will ground you until the Styx freezes over.
~ Rick Riordan
'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.
~ Howard Schultz
The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.
~ William Falconer
Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.
~ Scott Belsky