Business School Basics

To teach is to learn. - Chinese Proverb

Impatience never commanded success. - Edwin H. Chapin

In teaching others we teach ourselves. - Proverb

Eighty percent of success is showing up. - Woody Allen

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

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

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching. - Margaret E Sangster

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

Failure and setbacks are ingredients for a great success story. - Unknown

Don't accept success or failure - neither need be permanent. - Bernie Legge

The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet. - Wendell Phillips

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. - Jim Rohn

The number one disease of business leaders in North America is procrastination. - Napoleon Hill

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

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. - Sir William Temple

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

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. - Ann Landers

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

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

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. - Joe Paterno

If people like you, they'll listen to you. But if they trust you, they'll do business with you. - Zig Ziglar

Teaching is a calling. Teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness. - Jeanette Walls

A university is an institution that has two thousand seats in the classrooms and eighty thousand in the stadium. - Unknown

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

Learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. - Peter F Drucker

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

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. - Jack Welch

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. - Confucius

The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness. - Lewis B Smedes

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. - Napoleon Hill

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. - Og Mandino

It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline. - Harvey Mackay

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Nick Vujicic

Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way. - Conan O'Brien

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

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

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

What is success? It's a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. - Margaret Thatcher