Quotes About Success

Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.

If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.

When you compete with a person, you only have to be as good or better than the person to win. If you compete with yourself, there is no limitation to how good you can be.

Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

If you've got a business - you didn't build that.

Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first.

My business is to succeed, and I'm good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business?

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur.

If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great.

The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenues. Dollars, not dimes.

We built this company from the customer back, not from the company out.

Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

Your brand is the single most important investment you can make in your business

The idea that growth equals profitability is a misconception. If you can't afford the financial or qualitative side of growth, it can just as easily put you out of business.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.

I see marketing not only as a vital skill for small business success, but more importantly, as a vehicle to create art and connect deeply with and serve others to make the world a better place.

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