“For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.”
- Zig Ziglar

“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.”
- Stewart B. Johnson

“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's”
- Oscar Wilde

“To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art”
- Chinese Proverb

“Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.”
- Zig Ziglar

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
- Jack Welch

“It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business”
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it."
- Seth Godin

“You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow”
- Anonymous

“The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do...”
- David Joseph Schwartz

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
- Henry Ford

"Drive thy business or it will drive thee."
- Benjamin Franklin

“A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.”
- ScottAllen

"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman."
- David M. Ogilvy

"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."
- Warren Buffett