Smart Business Quotes:

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.

- Tony Hsieh

topic: Business, Vision, Ends, Starting New Business, Successful Entrepreneurs

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

- David Brinkley

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, About Success, Good Success

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inner Voice, Job Growth

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Best Success, Inspirational Football

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Management Motivation

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, About Success, Innovation Inspiration

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Social Innovation

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

- Jack Welch

source: "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Insperational, Top Management, Spiritual Vision

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

- Bill Gates

topic: Inspirational, Success, Teacher, Young Entrepreneurs, Business Life

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Graduation, Young Entrepreneurs, Make You Think Twice

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.

- Pierre Omidyar

source: "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

topic: Success, Hard Work, Passion, Passion And Success, Wrong Reasons

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Achingly Alice”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Life Philosophy, About Success

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Heart, Follow Your Heart, Intuition, Inner Voice, Business Life

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Positive, Daily Work, Social Entrepreneurship

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

- Drew Houston

source: "The Era Of The #fumblebrag" by Caleb Garling, www.wired.com. March 26, 2015.

topic: Business, Worry, Young Entrepreneurs, Starting Up, Business Owners

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Young Entrepreneurs, Makin Money

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

- Ross Perot

topic: Leadership, Business, Snakes, Cute Funny, Business Leadership

Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.

- Luke Bryan

topic: Dream, Business, Smart, Trust Your Instincts, Bryan

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Job Growth, Inner Life

I know a smart business decision when I see one — choosing open standards is | a very smart business decision indeed,

- Neelie Kroes

topic: Smart, Decision, Standards, Business Decisions, Smart Business

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

- Janet Napolitano

topic: Smart, Skills, Levels, Telecommunications, Transportation Infrastructure

When I started the diamond business, no black person, period, was in it to do what we're trying to do to change the industry. So I like to do things that I see clearly that are in my, you know, scope. And then, I had to figure how I get talented or smart business people around me to execute. That's what I have to do.

- Russell Simmons

source: "Does Russell Simmons Serve Hip-Hop?". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. June 4, 2007.

topic: Smart, People, Black, Black Person, Smart Business