The key to longevity is to keep doing what you do better than anyone else. We work real hard at that. It's about getting your message out to the consumer. It's about getting their trust, but also getting them excited, again and again.
-Ralph Lauren

Know and accept your own strengths and weaknesses. In other words: Look at yourself honestly … understand your passions, your skills, your temperament, and your limitations. If you're a square peg, no matter how hard you—and others—try, you're just not going to fit very well into a round hole.
-Katie Couric

It's important to scare yourself, to do things you don't think you're capable of doing. Reese
-Witherspoon

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you will do things differently.
-Warren Buffett

To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything be more fun?
-Katherine Graham

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
-Diane Sawyer

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
-Alan Greenspan

There is no failure. Only feedback.
-Robert Allen

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
-Michael Korda

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
-E. M. Forster

I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce (with Newman's Own), I begin to understand the romance of business, the allure of being the biggest fish in the pond and the juice you get from beating out your competitors.
-Paul Newman

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
-Babe Ruth

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
-Coco Chanel

You can't get people excited unless you can help them see and feel the impact.
-Bill Gates

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
-Russell Simmons

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
-Booker T. Washington

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
-Colin Powell

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
-Charles Schwab

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.
-Walt Disney

Learn young about hard work and manners—and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is DEDICATION.
-Cecil B. DeMille

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
-Henry Ford

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.
-Katherine Hepburn

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that one never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
-George Adams

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
-Samuel Johnson

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hourglass, to let the particles run the other way.
-Christopher Morley

Hire character. Train skill.
-Peter Schutz

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
-William Butler Yeats

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose—somehow we win out.
-Ronald Reagan

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
-Barack Obama

Sometimes you will apply for a job and you won't get it and you will think it is the greatest setback, but just remember it isn't losing that is wrong; it is quitting. Don't quit. Don't ever quit. Keep trying, because this country needs the very best that you, the young generation of America, can give to it.
-Richard Nixon

Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
-Colin Powell

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!"
-Theodore Roosevelt

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous—not just to some people in some circumstances—but to everyone all the time.
-Thomas J. Watson

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.
-Earl Gray Stevens

If you don't find a way to do something as work that is fulfilling and enjoyable, then your life is going to be really sad.
-Rudy Giuliani

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
-Walt Disney

By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.
-Benjamin Franklin

It's not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.
-Paul "Bear" Bryant

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-Mark Twain

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
-Conrad Hilton

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of any one stumbling on something sitting down.
-Charles F. Kettering

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
-Judy Garland

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.
-Marcia Wieder

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
-Henry J. Kaiser

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
-Henry Ward Beecher

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.
-Rick Pitino

You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.
-Greg Norman

Quality is not an act. It is a habit. Aristotle Your success in life isn't based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers, and business.
-Mark Sanborn

In the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organization … she or he only focuses on the garment hanging on the rail in the store.
-Giorgio Armani

Confidence and enthusiasm are the greatest sales producers in any kind of economy. Have confidence in your products and the house backing them, have enthusiasm for your job, call on your trade regularly and consistently, treat your trade courteously, and you will find that your customers will not have to be sold—they will be glad to buy.
-O. B. Smith

Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk—especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering and adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.
-Walt Disney

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.
-Theodore Hesburgh

Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.
-Lee Iacocca

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
-John Ruskin

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
-Steve Wozniak

The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
-Vince Lombardi

The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.
-T. Boone Pickens

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
-Eric Hoffer

You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.
-Rupert Murdoch

You will never make a good leader unless you have learned to follow. On those initial journeys when you are asked to pull your oar while another leads, learn what it takes to be a team player. Learn how to get along with others. Learn what loyalty and honesty are all about.
-Dr. Robert Ballard

Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and we want them to feel free to make any criticism they see fit in regard to our merchandise or service. Sell practical, tested merchandise at reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings— and they will always come back.
-L. L. Bean

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
-Jonas Salk

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. Bill Gates What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it.
-Lee Iacocca

We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost—for support, but not for illumination.
-David Ogilvy

A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk.
-Harry F. Banks

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
-Jeff Bezos

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
-Steuart Henderson Britt

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
-Malcolm S. Forbes

The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them.
-David Joseph Schwartz

All you need is love … and some comprehensive technology! Bono Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.
-Simon Cowell

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
-George W. Bush

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
-Johnny Carson

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson Leadership is action, not position.
-Donald H. McGannon

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. Alexander Graham Bell The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious.
-Ted Levitt

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.
-John Egan

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word—excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
-Pearl Buck

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent leader.
-Dolly Parton

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
-Thomas Edison

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
-Thomas Jefferson

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
-George S. Patton

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
-Theodore Roosevelt

There is no security in life, only opportunity. Mark Twain The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?" "Are you doing what fulfills you?"
-Oprah Winfrey

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
-Steve Jobs

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
-Harold Geneen

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public…. A man must be his own trumpeter. He must get his picture drawn, his statue made, and must hire all the artists in his turn, to set about the works to spread his name, make the mob stare and gape, and perpetuate his fame.
-John Adams

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made in a very narrow field. Niels Bohr Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.
-Henry Ford

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top.
-Arnold Bennett

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
-Kareem Abdul-Jabar

People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential.
-John Porter

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
-Julia Cameron

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.
-Bill Bradley

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
-Ralph Lauren

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.
-Mark Cuban

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
-William Patten

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. Billy Wilder When work is a pleasure, life is joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
-Maxim Gorky

No man ever listened himself out of a job.
-Calvin Coolidge

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. Scott Hamilton The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
-Walter Lippmann

Know your power and follow your passion. The power and passion that spring from the beauty of your dreams, the depth of your imagination, and the strength of your values.
-Nancy Pelosi

There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm, and team play.
-William B. Given, Jr.

You should recognize that criticism is not always a put down. If you take it to heart, maybe it will guide the way you ought to be going.
-Joseph Flom

There is no indispensable man. Woodrow Wilson Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
-J. Paul Getty

When you get a chance to earn a living, living your dream, you cannot beat that. So if that happens for you, embrace that with your entire being.
-Smokey Robinson

Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success—only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free.
-Ronald Reagan

Nothing will work unless you do.
-Maya Angelou

Of course, you can't gain ground if you are standing still.
-Bill Clinton

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
-Gertrude Stein

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.
-Ulysses S. Grant

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
-Charles Lindbergh

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. -Earl Nightingale

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
-John D. Rockefeller

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
-Phil Jackson

If you don't know where you are going, you are probably going to end up somewhere else. Laurence J. Peter Don't confuse having a career with having a life.
-Hillary Clinton

Success is the child of audacity. Benjamin Disraeli Don't find fault. Find a remedy.
-Henry Ford

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines. -Gary Sinse

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
-Marshall Field

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, ‘God, he said exactly what I was thinking.’ And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
-Lee Iacocca

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger

The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him—and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.
-J. Paul Getty

I learned that the only way you're going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete, or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win. If you don't you won't.
-Bruce Jenner

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
-Barack Obama

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
-Elbert Hubbard

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. Lou Holtz Life is not fair. Get used to it…. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
-Bill Gates

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.
-Larry King

We are not people who believe only in the survival of the fittest. Work in America is more than a paycheck; it a source of pride, self-reliance, and identity.
-John McCain

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
-Theodore Roosevelt

All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.
-Walt Disney

Fall down, make a mess, break something occasionally. And remember that the story is never over.
-Conan O'Brien

If I miss a day of practice, I know it. If I miss two days, my manager knows it. If I miss three days, my audience knows it.
-André Previn

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. -Orison Swett

Marden You've got to give loyalty down, if you want loyalty up. Donald T. Regan In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
-Warren Buffett

The worst days of those who enjoy what they do, are better than the best days of those who don't. E. James Rohn If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
-Kahlil Gibran

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
-H. L. Hunt

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
-Gail Devers

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
-Henry Ford

I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others. -Alan Greenspan

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
-Lloyd Jones

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
-John F. Kennedy

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.
-Rosalynn Carter

Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.
-Weston H. Agor

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
-Mary Kay Ash

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. Warren Beatty Ability is of little account without opportunity.
-Lucille Ball

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.
-Michael Dell

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
-Andrew Carnegie

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective. Peter Drucker What great changes have not been ambitious?
-Melinda Gates

First make it run, then make it run fast.
-Brian Kernighan

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin The price of greatness is responsibility.
-Winston Churchill

Above all, remember: You are not your resume. External measures won't repair you. Money won't fix you. Applause, celebrity, no number of victories will do it. The only honor that counts is that which you earn and that which you bestow. Honor yourself. Doug Marlette

I have never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my good judgment and careful planning and working long in advance. Theodore Roosevelt

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably Integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in the army, or in an office.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.
-Hugh Allen

A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.
-Johnny Cash

The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out allright.
-John D. Rockefeller

My whole career can be summed up with ‘Ignorance is bliss.’ When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing. Jeff Foxworthy Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-Thomas Edison

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
-Jane Fonda

If you see a need, do not ask why doesn't somebody do something, ask why don't I do something. Hard work and persistence and initiative are still the non-magic carpets to success for most of us.
-Marian Wright Edelman

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything. She wants all the information you can give her.
-David Ogilvy

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. -Henri Frédéric Amiel

I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
-John D. Rockefeller

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
-Babe Ruth

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. -David Brinkley

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.
-Philip Crosby

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
-John Foster Dulles

We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by whether someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business, or whether the waitress who lives on tips can take a day off to look after a sick kid without losing her job—an economy that honors the dignity of work.
-Barack Obama

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
-David Rockefeller

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
-Vince Lombardi

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
-George Herbert

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
-Jack Kemp

Regardless of the changes in technology, the market for well-crafted messages will always have an audience.
-Steve Burnett

Customer satisfaction is achieved when you sell merchandise that doesn't come back to a customer that does.
-Stanley Marcus

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit. Mark Twain

Ability is sexless.
-Christabel Pankhurst

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.
-Alexander Graham Bell

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
-Helen Maclinness

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
-Colin Powell

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
-John D. Rockefeller

Nothing happens unless first we dream.
-Carl Sandburg

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
-Henry Ford

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
-Bette Davis

So no matter how much potential you think you have, a little humility will serve you well—and help you focus on doing your best in the job you've got, rather than plotting to get the job you think you deserve.
-Katie Couric

The future you see is the future you get.
-Robert Allen

The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
-Bono

Follow your passion, and success will follow you.
-Arthur Buddhold

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. Aristotle Onassis

Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.
-Mark A. Clement

The genius of communication is the ability to be both totally honest and totally kind at the same time.
-John Powell

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
-Ralph Lauren

Excellence demands competition.
-Ronald Reagan

I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify, and never miss an angle.
-Walt Disney

If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.
-Bill Gates

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
-Charles Kettering

Work is a world apart from jobs. Work is the way you occupy your mind and hand and eye and whole body when they're informed by your imagination.
-Alice Koller

Ideas control the world.
-James Garfield

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe.
-Abraham Lincoln

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
-Thomas Edison

You have to have doubts. I have collaborators I work with. I listen and then I decide. That's how it works.
-Giorgio Armani

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
-Arthur Ashe

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
-Indira Gandhi

Flash powder makes a more brilliant light than the arc lamp, but you can't use it to light your street corner because it doesn't last long enough. Stability is more essential to success than brilliancy.
-Richard Lloyd Jones

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
-Arnold Glasow

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.
-Lou Holtz

My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.
-Michael Gerber

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
-Calvin Coolidge

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.
-Christopher Reeve

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
-Tommy Lasorda

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
-John D. Rockefeller

There is a fine line between persistence and being straight out annoying. Working someone's nerves too much won't get you very far.
-Katie Couric

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
-Henry J. Kaiser

Always give a hundred percent, and you'll never have to second-guess yourself.
-Tommy John

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
-J. K. Rowling

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility …. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.
-Michael Korda

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
-Alice Cooper

No one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You.
-Edgar Watson

Howe Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.
-Joseph Barbara

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
-Jeff Bezos

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
-Alfred Sheinwold

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
-Nolan Bushnell

It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
-Oprah Winfrey

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.
-Reese Witherspoon

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
-Frank Lloyd Wright

I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
-Helen Keller

The best work never was and never will be done for money.
-John Ruskin

Don't bring negative to my door.
-Maya Angelou

Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work—then try to trump it.
-Walt Disney

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. James Garfield

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
-John Kenneth Galbraith

Achievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
-Orison Swett Marden

To learn through listening, practice it naively and actively. Naively means that you listen openly, ready to learn something, as opposed to listening defensively, ready to rebut. Listening actively means you acknowledge what you heard and act accordingly.
-Betsy Sanders

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.
-Dennis A. Peer

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
-Franklin Roosevelt

Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.
-Frank Tyger

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
-Martin Van Buren

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
-Albert Schweitzer

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.
-Thomas J. Watson

People ask me all the time, they say to me, ‘What is the secret of success?’ And I give them always the short version. I say, ‘Number one, come to America. Number two, work your butt off. And number three, marry a Kennedy.’
-Arnold Schwarzenegger

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you never know where it may lead. Julia Morgan The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.
-Angela Merkel

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.
-Harding Lawrence

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
-Thomas J. Watson

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
-Lena Horne

Motivate them, train them, care about them, and make winners out of them … they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.
-J. Marriott Jr.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
-Richard Bach

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
-W. Edwards Deming

Men who never get carried away should be.
-Malcolm Forbes

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.
-J. Askenberg

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
-Steve Jobs

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
-Christopher Morley

Self-confidence is the key to the universe.
-Carrol Wrackley

You must never be satisfied with success and you should never be discouraged by failure.
-Richard Nixon

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
-Charles M. Schwab

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
-John Wooden

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with being afraid at all. Norman Schwarzkopf

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days … What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
-Andrew Jackson

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
-Dolly Parton

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
-Abraham Lincoln

Don't just work for the money … that will bring only limited satisfaction.
-Kathy Ireland

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
-Fernando Flores

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
-Albert Einstein

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
-Andrew Carnegie

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
-Tom Brokaw

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
-Thomas Edison

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-Henry Ford

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
-Alan Greenspan

THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishments.
-Thomas J. Watson

When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-Betty Bender

The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
-Benjamin E Mays

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.
-Steve Ballmer

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-George Crane

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
-Walt Disney

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
-Ray Kroc

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
-Marian Wright Edelman

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
-B. C. Forbes

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-Henry Ford

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
-Henry J. Kaiser

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
-Henry Van Dyke

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
-Bobby Unser

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
-Robert M. Pirsig

Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.
-Theodore Roosevelt

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
-Logan Pearsall Smith

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
-Sam Walton

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.
-Oprah Winfrey

A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.
-John D. Rockefeller

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!
-E. M. Kelly

Whenever you fall, pick something up.
-Oswald Avery

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
-Warren Bennis

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
-Tom Landry

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential … these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
-Eddie Robinson

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
-Robert Byrne

Remember, America: organization will set you free.
-Alton Brown

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. Albert Einstein Remember that time is money.
-Ben Franklin

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
-Baltasar Gracián

Happiness: the full use of your powers along the lines of excellence.
-John F. Kennedy

The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living. Charles F. Kettering

Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
-Sam Ewing

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste time.
-Henry Ford

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
-Bernard M. Baruch

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
-Richard Branson

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
-Randolph Bourne

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
-Rudy Giuliani

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
-Mark Twain

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.
-David Ogilvy

Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you're really buying into someone else's system of values, rules, and rewards.
-Bill Waterson

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
-Thomas J. Watson

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
-William J. H. Boetcker

A good plan today is better thana perfect plan tomorrow.
-George S. Patton

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
-Frank Lloyd Wright

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it—short-term pain for long-term gain.
-George Will

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
-Alfred Nobel

Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.
-Jennifer James

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
-Samuel Beckett

Don't keep forever on the public road. Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
-Alexander Graham Bell

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
-Thomas Edison

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
-Steve Jobs

I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" That's what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world.
-Bill Gates

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-Thomas Edison

If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it.
-James A. Garfield

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
-Robert Half

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
-David McCullough

When all think alike, then no one is thinking.
-Walter Lippman

Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
-Vincent van Gogh

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it. Colin Powell Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-Sun Tzu

Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.
-William Arthur Ward

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
-Edward de Bono

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
-David Bly

Business life, whether among ourselves or with other people, is ever a sharp struggle for success. It will be none the less so in the future. Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.
-William Mckinley

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
-Henry Ford

Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.
-Uri Geller

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.
-Clive Davis

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
-Peter Drucker

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
-Albert Einstein

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
-Barack Obama

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
-Calvin Coolidge

It seems to me, that it's all about opportunity and ‘make your own luck.’ You study the most successful people, and they work hard, and they take advantage of opportunities that come that they don't know are going to happen to them.
-Eric Schmidt

Respect a man, he will do the more. James Howell Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
-Jesse Jackson

Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
-Steve Martin

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
-Margaret Thatcher

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the ‘ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome’. You must be willing to fire.
-T. Boone Pickens

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
-Ronald Reagan

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it—because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?
-Harland Sanders

Never try to solve all the problems at once—make them line up for you one-by-one.
-Richard Sloma

Don't let anyone else take the measure of your worth and capabilities. Always stand proud in who you are!
-Margaret Spellings

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-Harry S. Truman

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
-Samuel Butler

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
-William Arthur Ward

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
-Andy Warhol

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
-Oprah Winfrey

If you're in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent. Warren Buffett There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.
-Mark Burnett

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
-Ronald Reagan

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it—because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?
-Harland Sanders

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
-William Arthur Ward

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
-Andy Warhol

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
-Oprah Winfrey

If you're in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.
-Warren Buffett

There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.
-Mark Burnett

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
-Winston Churchill

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
-Jeff Bezos

You do not lead by hitting people over the head—that's assault, not leadership.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
-Malcolm Forbes

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
-Abraham Lincoln

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
-John D. Rockefeller

If people are coming to work excited … if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly if they're having fun … if they're concentrating doing things, rather than preparing reports and going to meetings—then somewhere you have leaders.
-Robert Townsend

The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not material things … it is the human mind, the human spirit, the human imagination, and our faith in the future.
-Steve Jobs

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.
-Merle Shain

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
-Thomas J. Watson

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
-Oprah Winfrey

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished—there will always be work you haven't done.
-Julia Child

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.
-Richard Nixon

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well. Joe Gibbs Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.
-Henry Ford

When people are judged by merit, not connections, then the best and brightest can lead the country, people will work hard, and the entire economy will grow—everyone will benefit and more resources will be available for all, not just select groups.
-Barack Obama

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination.
-Bill Gates

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
-Theodore Roosevelt