Building A Business Quotes

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

"Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Richard Branson

Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Napoleon Hill

Motivational, Success, Teamwork

Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.372, Penguin

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The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Lee Iacocca

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.100, Bantam

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The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

Phil Jackson

Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.

Rensis Likert

Loyalty, Teamwork, Motivation

Rensis Likert (1967). “The human organization: its management and value”, McGraw Hill

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People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

Mary Kay Ash

Inspirational, Teamwork, Business

Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Brian Tracy

Teamwork, Money, Business

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Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Andrew Carnegie

Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed

Russel Honore

Teamwork, Team Building, Culture

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Inspirational, Life, Friendship

Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

Russel Honore

Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

Andrew Carnegie

Teamwork, Common Vision, Individual Effort

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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.

Richard Branson

Real, Differences, Creating

"Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won't Teach You at Business School". Book by Richard Branson, www.businessinsider.com. 2012.

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Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

Richard Branson

Inspirational, Business, Integrity

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Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.

Mark Zuckerberg

Hands, Building, Missions

"Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's Triumphs and Tribulations" by Jason Fell, www.entrepreneur.com. September 13, 2012.

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When you're building a business, you're either all in, or you're not.

Barbara Corcoran

Building

Twitter post from Feb 8, 2018

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Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

Margaret Heffernan

Building, Stamina

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Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Bill Gates

Success, Creativity, Skills

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Building a mission and building a business go hand-in-hand. It is true that the primary thing that makes me excited about what we're doing is the mission, but I also think, from the very beginning, we've had this healthy understanding which is that we need to do both.

Mark Zuckerberg

Thinking, Hands, Understanding

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When you're building a business or joining a company you have to be transparent, you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.

Howard Schultz

Two, People, Joining

Interview with Andrew Stevens, edition.cnn.com. December 28, 2007.

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It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.

Richard Branson

Divorce, Hard Work, People

"Richard Branson on Being Richard Branson". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.entrepreneur.com. December 17, 2012.

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Pick something you are interested in, and keep applying a business model that includes Internet Marketing to make it global, get thousands of leads and clients for free and make more sales. Remember you are building a business, as people make the internet appear to be push-button money, when in fact it is a medium to market your message!

Tracy Repchuk

Remember You, Remembers You, People

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