Business School Basics

To teach is to learn twice. - Joseph Joubert

Insects all business all the time. - David Foster Wallace

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille

It's not failure. It's unfinished success. - Unknown

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

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. - Jonathan Winters

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. - Eartha Kitt

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

Purposeful storytelling isn't show business, it's good business. - Peter Guber

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me. - Howard Nemerov

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money. - Johnny Cash

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. - Walter Cronkite

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. - Andy Grove

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. - Theodore T. Hunger

We seldom give each other advice - I think that's the success of 25 years of marriage. - Laura Bush

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. - Mary Little

The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor upon the business known as gambling. - Ambrose Bierce

It's better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. - George Burns

A true measure of a man's worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. - Cullen Hightower

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. - John Wooden

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. - George S Patton

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

Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head. - John C Maxwell

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

Mathematics is indeed dangerous in that it absorbs students to such a degree that it dulls their senses to everything else. - Prinz zu Hohlenlohe-Ingelfingen Kraft

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 neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. - Jim Rohn

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

Remember you're not entitled to anything. You have to earn your success every day, and you will make mistakes like everyone else. - Harvey Mackay

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. - Mark Twain

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge. - Kelly Slater

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

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

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

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

Any nation that neglects teaching the sacredness of life and the family does so at its own peril. Any nation that sanctions the removal of God’s boundaries will destroy its own. - Ravi Zacharias

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. - Dale Carnegie

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do. - Patricia Fripp

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. - Babe Ruth