Business Quotes 2 - compiled by Deacon Hayes RETURN “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker, Management Consultant and Author “Rule No. 1: Never lose money; rule No. 2: Don’t forget rule No. 1.” – Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway “Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch, Former CEO of General Electric “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft “There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” – Sam Walton, Founder of Walmart “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ” – Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company “Choose a job that you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs, Founder of Apple, Inc. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney, Founder of The Walt Disney Company “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” — Ray Goforth “I learned to never kick someone when they’re down. Everyone makes mistakes, and some are real whoppers. But that makes them whopping opportunities, too.” — Jack Welsh “You need to have a culture instead of a payroll so that people watch themselves. What does this? Not money, but enhanced self-esteem.” — Steve Wynn “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” — Jim Rohn “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” — Tony Hsieh “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” — Thomas J. Watson “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” — Tony Robbins “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember–the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” — Zig Ziglar “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” — John D. Rockefeller Jr.20. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.” — Oprah Winfrey “If someone is out in the desert walking around, they’re going to be thirsty. You just have to ask them what they want to drink.” — Arthur Blank “I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.” — Thomas Edison “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” — Mark Zuckerberg “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.” — Helen Keller “It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.” — Jason Cohen “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.” — Reid Hoffman “Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.” — Sara Blakely “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” — Caterina Fake “I think that the most important issue that will reshape our lives in the years ahead will be how man-made and artificial intelligence compete and work together.” — Ray Dalio “Sometimes the best way to make money is when most people say you are wrong and nuts.” — Carl Icahn “Most people fail in science because they talk themselves out of doing the experiment. Ideas are a dime a dozen. What makes the difference is the execution of the idea.” — Craig Venter “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” — Howard Schultz “It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.” — Mark Cuban “An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.” — David Karp “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt “The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.” — Ingvar Kamprad “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs “The stars will never align, and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.” — Tim Ferriss “If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.” — Marissa Mayer “What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.” — Dave Thomas “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” — Phil Knight “If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.” — Zig Ziglar “There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” — Seth Godin “Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.” — Robert T. Kiyosaki “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” — Napoleon Hill “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau “If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.” — Jeff Bezos “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” — John D. Rockefeller “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” — Oprah Winfrey