Business School Basics

Eighty percent of success is showing up. - Woody Allen

Confidence is the hinge on the door to success. - Mary O'Hare Dumas

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

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

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. - Truman Capote

Success is what happens while you're doing what you love. - Tom Krueger

Before anything else, getting ready is the secret of success. - Henry Ford

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

You can't be emotional in business, it can flat out kill you. - Donald Trump

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing. - Dale Carnegie

To be successful in show business, all you need are fifty good breaks. - Walter Matthau

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one. - Max Lucado

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. - An Wang

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

The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. - Conrad Hilton

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. - Napoleon Hill

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. - Nelson Boswell

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things. - Hideo Kojima

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. - Fred Astaire

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. - Swami Sivananda

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

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

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. - Dale Carnegie

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations. - Andre Gide

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. - Thomas Huxley

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

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. - Oscar Wilde

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. - George Foreman

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. - Bob Dylan

The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability. - Franklin D Roosevelt

Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Graduation speeches were invented largely in the belief that college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. - Garry Trudeau

To be successful and grow your business and revenues, you must match the way you market your products with the way your prospects learn about and shop for your products. - Brian Halligan

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too. - Jimmy Buffett

If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas. - Ricky Williams