2008 / November / The best quotations and sayings about business with comments
When you do well, do not change your good ways.
Success is not just good luck. It's a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. When opportunity comes, you have to be ready to embrace it. Otherwise it goes to somebody else. Also, success will not last if you don't take care of it.
If I make good today, I want to make better tomorrow. If I have a big shopping mall, my next thing is to have a bigger one. By doing that, I have to work very hard, 10 to 12 hour days.
Without hard work, opportunity is nothing.
Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed.
The successful man is one who makes more than his wife can spend. And the successful woman is one who can find such a man.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us.
The best mental effort in the game of business is concerntrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.
Marketing is a battle of perseptions, non products.
It's much easier to get into the mind first than to try to convince someone you have a better product than the one that did get there first.
It's better to be first than it is to be better.
When a company makes a mistake today, footprints quickly show up on its back as competition runs off with its business. To get the business back, the company has to wait for others to make mistakes and then figure out how to exploit the situation.
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
And gain is gain, however small.
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.