A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be?
Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.
Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.
When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to build a business empire... For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that's going to make a real difference to other people's lives.
'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.
People who achieve the highest levels of success - whether in business or in raising families or simply in discovering fulfillment and satisfaction and purpose in life - are those who place their focus on other people rather than themselves.
I couldn't sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money.
For me, it's about camaraderie. My whole life is like, if something's going on, nothing ever preceded fun. I always put my friends and the fun and the business ahead of everything.
I dreamt of running my own business even as a kid, but if not a CEO, I would have probably been a pilot.
The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
Don't ever break someone's trust. Once you do, then nobody wants to do business with you.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.
Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.
The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.
Your billion-dollar ideas don't show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish.
Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best - I suggest to you - move in the opposite direction.
The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.
Carpe per diem - seize the check.
Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
With success comes responsibility of playing your part, to do what you can to help not only those that helped you get to where you're at, but the future of who's going to be playing a part of your business and everything you do in your entire career.
In high school, I worked at Abercrombie & Fitch, and once I graduated from business school at USC, I started a company with my partner and had a nine-to-seven job.
As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.
My private life is my own business.
A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.
Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!
Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.
In the business world and the volunteer world, each job has certain requirements that must be met in order for that job to be done properly and for that organization to survive and prosper.
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.