S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Successful brands get into the mind slowly. A blurb in a magazine. A mention in a newspaper. A comment from a friend. A display in a retail store. After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.”
“Successful business development takes a multi-disciplinary approach in that it involves financial, advertising and legal skills. It is not enough to reduce activities to a simple template that can be applied to all situations faced by real-world enterprises.”
“Successful business is always almost dishonest”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.”
“Successful businesspeople retain a quality most others not only lack but often fail to comprehend, and that's the unrelenting drive to convert a vision into reality. They are driven to realize this goal in a manner that appears to defy logic among others who lack this drive.”
Source: Driven: How to Succeed in Business and in Life
“Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer.”
Source: Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)
“Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.”
Source: Memoirs
“Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach”
“Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.”
“Successful companies create value by providing products or services their customers value more highly than available alternatives. They do this while consuming fewer resources, leaving more resources available to satisfy other needs in society. Value creation involves making people's lives better. It is contributing to prosperity in society.”
Source: The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company
“Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.”
“Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs.”
Source: The Complete Golfer
“Successful continual learning means maintaining a balance and variety of success-oriented attributes, the most prominent being awareness, confidence, persistence, determination, courage, and focus. But curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity may be even more important as it is these traits that fuel the desire to continue to question and challenge the status quo.”
Source: No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
“Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.”
“Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.”
Source: The Functions of the Executive
“Successful couples love each other with complete devotion”
“Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.”
“Successful crimes alone are justified.”
“Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.”
“Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.”
“Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.”
“Successful entrepreneurs are the life blood of business in the United States and around the world. Every corporation, organization and banking system started with one person with an idea that blossomed into a thriving business.
The entrepreneur spirit that drives a person to build a successful business from nothing is more than just intriguing. When we look at what characteristics or traits common among those that do succeed, we are able to design our own success.”
“Successful entrepreneurs don't wait for opportunities to come knocking. They create their own opportunities through hard work, resilience, and a willingness to take risks.”
Source: The Art and Science of Startup
“Successful entrepreneurs don't wait for the perfect moment - they create it”
“Successful entrepreneurs figure out when to drive their ideas forward and when to listen to constructive criticism.”
“Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.”
“Successful entrepreneurs judge correctly the need for change, then do something about it.”
“Successful entrepreneurs may hate hierarchies and structures and try to destroy them. They may garner the disapproval of MBAs for their creativity and wildness. But they have antennae in their heads. When they walk down the street anywhere in the world, they have their antennae out, evaluating how what they see can relate back to what they are doing. It might be packaging, a word, a poem, or even something in a completely different business.”
“Successful entrepreneurs recognise which business elements need to be maintained, and where changes need to be brought about.”
“Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.”
“Successful evangelism involves not only harvesting, but sowing and watering, too. We must never think that because a nonbeliever remained unconvinced by our case that our apologetic has failed. For one encounter is not the end of the story.”
“Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“Successful films are very dangerous things.”
“Successful friendship, like successful therapy, is a balance of deference and defiance. It involves showing positive regard, but also calling people on their self-deceptions. The Buddhists have a useful phrase for unconditional positive regard: “idiot compassion,” which is the kind of empathy that never challenges people’s stories or threatens to hurt their feelings. It consoles but also conceals.”
Source: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“Successful friendships are established on both giving and receiving. Develop a heart to give not only to receive.”
Source: The Law Of Reciprocity
“Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.”
“Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.”
“Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans.”
“Successful guilt is the bane of society”
“Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.”
“Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.”
“Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.”
Source: The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
“Successful improvisation is mostly a matter of taking your thoughts out of the equation, because thinking can keep the magic from happening. You have to be open enough to let the magic happen, instead of trying to make it happen because magic is never made.”
“Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.”
“Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.”
“Successful innovations become conventions.”
“Successful investing is about having people agree with you ... later.”
“Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.”
“Successful investing is about owning businesses and reaping the huge rewards provided by the dividends and earnings growth of our nation's - and, for that matter, the world's - corporations.”
Source: The John C. Bogle Reader
“Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.”