Business School Basics

Teach us delight in simple things. - Rudyard Kipling

I never dreamed about success, I worked for it. - Estee Lauder

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. - Christopher Lasch

I've won at every level, except college and pro. - Shaquille O'Neal

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren

I think he'll be great for the business community. - Donald Trump

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. - Zig Ziglar

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. - Ambrose Bierce

Success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. - Alan Price

To simplify complications is the first essential of success. - George E Buckle

For business, our Internet love affair was a gift from the gods. - Gary Vaynerchuk

Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland - rich and thick. - Samuel Beckett

Philosophy may teach us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of our neighbors. - Oscar Wilde

Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift. - Ernest T. Seton

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. - Elias Canetti

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it. - John Lennon

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you. - Samuel Goldwyn

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. - Colin Powell

When you teach a child something, you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself. - Jean Piaget

You learn more from failure than from success. Don't let it stop you. Failure builds character. - Unknown

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. - Stephen Leacock

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. - Unknown

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. - Viktor Frankl

If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. - Unknown

It's much easier to double your business by doubling your conversion rate than doubling your traffic. - Bryan Eisenberg

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. - Steve Maraboli

You can catch health, happiness, and success from others just as easily as you can catch worries, bitterness, and failure. - Dale Carnegie

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

No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open. - Harvey Mackay

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it. Success is shy; it won't come out while you're watching. - Tennessee Williams

Leadership is all about caring, daring and sharing. Caring for people, Daring to Act fearlessly, and Sharing the success with all. - Sujit Lalwani

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes it's built on catastrophe. - Sumner Redstone

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered. - Francis Bacon

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay

What we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by the little scraps of wisdom. - Umberto Eco

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college. - Bill Vaughan

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world. - Andy Granatelli

If you want to succeed, worry less about what college you get into and more about doing your homework, taking care of your chores and being nice to other people. - Jay Mathews

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. - Marilyn Monroe

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most. - Jay Leno