Quotes Tagged "business"

Sometimes quietly taking the credit can advertise you and your ability in a much louder way than telling everyone that you were the one that did it.

Managing to follow through for a day is good. But, managing to follow through every day, for days, weeks and months creates authentic and consistent results.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for protection--not only from the big predatory cats but, as they began to lose their monkey fur, from the elements. Eventually, they started transposing their hunting fantasies onto cave walls in the form of pictures, first as an attempt at practical magic and later for the strange, unexpected pleasure they discovered in artistic creation. Time passed. Art came off the walls and turned into ritual. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present mindless, voracious trajectory, could land those of us lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again.

But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.

You are running too fast, in the false direction.

I think it is likely that success will only affect people who will perceive despite the difficulty and mistakes.

Only when you can see the good, can you have courage.

Success is only rented, and you pay the rent daily.

To be truly successful you have to break away from the crowds, popularity and your ego for a while. Somewhere you can work towards achieving your goals, say no to distractions and concentrate on studying and practicing.

You can’t change the world if the world doesn’t know who you are.

Marketers everywhere subtly reinforce your concerns and doubts – why do you fall for it?

When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

While others were dreaming about it - I was getting it done.

Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places.

You cannot control the past but you have control over the life you build going forward.