Quotes About Success

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

Pour your heart and soul into your business. People will notice.

If you want to build a business, build the people.

The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.

The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.

When you're feeling overwhelmed in business, one smart idea can beat the biggest Super Bowl ad.

Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.

If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.

Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.

All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.

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.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.

The big thing for me is, I never think about myself as a female in business. I'm a person in business.