Business School Basics

To teach is to learn. - Chinese Proverb

Failure teaches success. - Japanese Saying

The best revenge is massive success. - Frank Sinatra

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides

The road to success is always under construction. - Lily Tomlin

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. - George S Patton

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing. - Izaak Walton

Positivity is such a high predictor of success rate. - Shawn Achor

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

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

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success. - John Hays Hammond

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis

Success will come to the side that has the last man standing. - Philippe Petain

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success. - Napoleon Hill

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else. - Ray Kroc

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. - Florence Nightingale

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

I am not yet ready to be czar. I know nothing of the business of ruling. - Nicholas II

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

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. - Joseph Campbell

In the business sector, conflict and self-interest is most highly focused. - Unknown

Success is when you look back at your life and the memories make you smile. - Phoebe L. Moll

There is only one certainty in business: You can't succeed if you quit. - Darren Hardy

You don't have to teach people to be funny, you only have to give them permission. - Harvey Mindess

What is the most important key to success? Networking - two minds are better than one. - David Foster

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound

Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves. - Maltbie D. Matlock

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness. - Zig Ziglar

Doing the thing nearly right and doing it exactly right is usually the difference between success and failure. - Edward Simmons

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. - Robert Louis Stevenson

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. - Herbert Bayard Swope

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do. - Samuel Smiles

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. - Mark Caine

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. - Horace

It's better to swim in the sea below
Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol. - Benjamin Franklin

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. - Ernest Hemingway

The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction. - Harvey Mackay

Mountain pose teaches us, literally, how to stand on our own two feet... teaching us to root ourselves into the earth... Our bodies become a connection between heaven and earth. - Carol Krucoff