I was thinking about successful business people and the courage it took to reach such great prominence in the business world. I feel that quotes can be condensed versions of life lessons. I would like to share some famous quotes by people who have been extremely successful in business. No matter what some may think of them, each one has achieved their goals and given back to help make this world a better place to live. I had fun finding these quotes. I hope you enjoy them. I wish you great success in your current or new home based business.
Richard Branson:
~~ My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had – every day I’m learning something new.
~~ I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue.
~~ Fantasizing about the future is one of my favorite pastimes.
~~ Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.
~~ I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
Suzi Orman:
~~ The truth is women in the workplace don’t have to fight nearly as hard for opportunities, or to dispel stereotypes, as they did before.
~~ True generosity must benefit both parties. No woman can control her destiny if she doesn’t give to herself as much as she gives of herself.
Warren Buffet:
~~ You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right.
~~ I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.
~~ Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
~~ Never invest in a business you cannot understand.
~~ Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
~~ If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.
Oprah Winfrey:
~~ What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
~~ You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
~~ I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
Robert Kiyosaki:
~~ Most investors say “Don’t take risks.” The rich investor takes risks.
~~ It is not how much you make that counts but how much money you keep.
~~ If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
~~ Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.
~~ Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.
~~ Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
~~ Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills.
Martha Stewart:
~~ Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.
~~ All the things I love is what my business is all about.
~~ I’m not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.
~~ I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.
~~ 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.
Rupert Murdoch:
~~ 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.
~~ In motivating people, you’ve got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example.. and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
~~ Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try.
Mary Kay Ash:
~~ 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.
~~ We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.
~~ People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Bill Gates:
~~ Patience is a key element of success.
~~ I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
~~ Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Donald Trump:
~~ Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry.I like making deals, preferably big deals. That’s how I get my kicks.
~~Business can be an art, and as an art, it is ever evolving and mysterious in its own right. When I wrote The Art of the Deal, I was aware of that aspect of business, and I haven’t changed my mind about it. I’ve mentioned before that like an artist, I give my utmost every day to what I’m doing. I’m not pretending in any sense of the word.
~~ Don’t be afraid of being unique. It’s like being afraid of your best self.
~~ Nobody but a total masochist wants to be criticized.
~~ Picasso was not only a great artist, he was a good businessman. He knew the value of his work, and he didn’t make excuses for it.
~~ A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn’t exactly been one of moderation.
~~ When people see the beautiful marble in Trump Tower, they usually have no idea what I went through personally to achieve the end result. No one cares about the blood, sweat, and tears that art or beauty require. It’s the end result that matters.
~~ I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s were the fun is.
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Debra Oakland
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