Business School Basics

Eighty percent of success is showing up. - Woody Allen

College is a refuge from hasty judgment. - Robert Frost

Self-assurance is two-thirds of success. - Gaelic Proverb

The purpose of a business is to create a customer. - Peter F Drucker

I'm not a businessman. I'm a business, man. - Jay-Z

It's every man's business to see justice done. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success. - Zig Ziglar

I don't teach my children what is Hindu and what is Muslim. - Shah Rukh Khan

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. - Ed Gillespie

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

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success. - Victor Cousins

Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. - Psalms 90:12

The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. - Nancy Astor

Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down. - John D. Wright

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success. - Anna Pavlova

If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business. - Donald Trump

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. - Nathan Meyer Rothschild

You cannot teach humans anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves. - Galileo

There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. - Clive James

The core of true success is love. And that includes loving yourself enough to take care of yourself. - Zig Ziglar

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. - Mark Twain

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. - Thomas Carlyle

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is the knack of getting along with people. - Theodore Roosevelt

The error of the past is the success of the future. A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something. - Unknown

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. - Leigh Hunt

Your belief in yourself and your company and your place in the world may be the main determination of your success. - Tom Butler-Bowdon

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid. - Lucian of Samosata

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. - Pattabhi Jois

Fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb. - Miroslav Volf

No one is going to hand me success. I must go out and get it myself. That's why I'm here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world and myself. - Unknown

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

So I said to my personal trainer, "Can you teach me to do the splits?" He said, "How flexible are you?" I said, "Well... I can't make Tuesdays." - Tim Vine

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. - Orison S. Marden

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

I am thrilled to be able to offer my good friend Martha the opportunity to join me in the success of "The Apprentice," ... I hope she has as much fun as I do with this venture. - Donald Trump