Focus In Business Quotes

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

Steve Jobs

Life Lesson, Moving, Simple

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My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.

Bill Gates

Success, Focus, Positive Focus

"One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Will Durant

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Bruce Lee

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

Jack Welch

Inspirational, Leadership, Perseverance

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

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

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Success, Graduation

"Mansfield News Journal" Newspaper, August 3, 1965.

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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Love, Inspirational, Life

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Change, Life Changing

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.44, Prabhat Prakashan

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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Richard Branson

Life, Success, Business

Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

Steve Jobs

Change, Life Changing, Hard Work

"Steve Jobs quotes: the man in his own words", www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.

Napoleon Hill

Powerful, Business, Work

"Self-Motivation Through Risk Taking! : Are You Leading Or Do You Wither with Problems?". Book by M. Nadarajan Munisamy, 2005.

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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Profit in business comes from repeat customers

W. Edwards Deming

Loyal Customers, Great Customer Service, Profit Motive

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Customer service shouldn't just be A department, it should be the entire company.

Tony Hsieh

Service Culture, Focus, Satisfaction

"Your Culture Is Your Brand" by Tony Hsieh, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.

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Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

"Steve Jobs, the Journey Is the Reward". Book by Jeffrey S. Young, 1988.

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It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Steve Jobs

Inspiring, Technology, Best Job

"Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

Funny, Life, Motivational

"An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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