Quotes

I was essentially bankrupt at the age of 16. That almost near-death experience kind of built the next success for me in business.

If you're a retailer, and you want to sell the same products that Amazon is selling, well, Amazon is going to have a better consumer experience. Better prices. You have no chance to be successful. If it's not completely different, close up, go home, give up.

Many times I have gotten distracted. That has hurt or impeded success.

For me, I think failing is great, because if you fail fast and you learn how to fail, you can use that to build your next success.

Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities - whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.

There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.

If you are with five successful people, then you are the sixth successful person. The reverse of this is true as well, so who are you hanging out with?

You cannot build a company or manage a life by chasing others; you have to find your success competing against yourself. There will always be a bigger fish.

Your success has to be measured against yourself - a decade ago, last year, or yesterday.

Your success starts with how you are able to get clients in the door, get their business, and leave them satisfied. If you, personally, have to spend too much time doing that, you have simply bought yourself a job, not an enterprise. Take hints from success stories all around you!

The deciding factor of why some entrepreneurs are successful and others fail is not limited to your DNA or your education; it is about the actions you take as the leader of your business.

We all know that Ray Kroc founded the McDonald's franchise back in the 1950s, and it then became the most successful business enterprise in history.

Growing your own business is great. Watching your ideas come to life, taking care of new customers and watching them become repeat customers, and successfully building your team is a feeling that can't be matched.

At some point, you have to declare an idea dead and, if not a failure, then at least not a success.

No matter what your company does - build, manage, produce, import - as an owner, you can't avoid the hard work and skip straight to success. No class can give you that, no YouTube video can teach it, and no book can mark it off your list.

The only choice that leads small business owners to real success in their endeavors is the one that requires real thought. Understanding and building the systems they need within their company to afford them a framework of organization that can scale the business from a company of one to a company of one thousand.

I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

It's a strange thing to have a successful television show because if it's too interesting... people don't really pay attention when they watch TV. It has to be good, but not so interesting that you really have to pay attention because people multitask. So, if a show demands your entire attention, it has a tough time making it.

When the FDA announced its intentions to join other countries and ban quinolone use on U.S. chicken farms, the drug manufacturer Bayer initiated legal action that successfully delayed the process for five years.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

I'm aggressive, quite frankly, because Staten Island gets screwed all the time. And if I'm not aggressive, then I won't be successful. That's not being a bad boy. That's doing my job.

I would want to teach my children someday that they should strive to be successful.

The ability to be successful should be a good thing.

Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.