Business School Basics

Even while they teach, men learn. - Seneca

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. - Dorothy Parker

Technology is teaching us to be human again. - Simon Mainwaring

Fundamental honesty is the keystone of business. - Harvey S Firestone

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. - Ambrose Bierce

In any business, the number-one competitor is inertia. - Dave Chilton

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch. - Joseph Addison

The secret of my success is a two-word answer: Know people. - Harvey S Firestone

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. - Dave Barry

Failure and setbacks are ingredients for a great success story. - Unknown

Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money. - Alexandre Dumas

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success. - Anna Pavlova

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal

Success can test one's mettle as surely as the strongest adversary. - Unknown

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it. - Peter F Drucker

There is no place where success comes before work, except in the dictionary. - Donald Kimball

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. - George Bernard Shaw

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success. - Samuel Goldwyn

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. That's success. - Tom Petty

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. - Irving Berlin

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. - Unknown

I measure my own success as a leader by how well the people who work for me succeed. - Maria Shi

Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan. - James Roosevelt

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? - Kin Hubbard

I'm a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and 2nd degree in karate, and I'm a licensed bodyguard. - Katheryn Winnick

Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you have fed him for a lifetime. - Chinese Proverb

A manager is a title, it does not guarantee success. Coaching is an action, not a title and actions will result in successes. - Catherine Pulsifer

Success is about creating benefit for all and enjoying the process. If you focus on this and adopt this definition, success is yours. - Kelly Kim

Animals are like little angels sent to earth to teach us how to love. They don't get angry or play silly games. They are always there for us. - Whitney Mandel

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie

When you break down all the fluff, there are two ways to promote and market your business: dumber, slower, and expensive - or smarter, faster, and cheaper. - David S. Garland

People say that the Bible is a boring book, but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. - Bertrand Russell

Holding back technology to preserve broken business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes. - Don Tapscott

It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline. - Harvey Mackay

Whether you're a homemaker or a schoolteacher, a lawyer or a doctor, a news anchor or an aerobics instructor, everyone is conducting business each and every day. - Donald Trump

Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge. - Harvey Mackay

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau