some motivational bussiness quotes

Loyalty: Stephen Covey

You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

Ego: Colin Powell

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Success: John Foster Dulles

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Goals: George Burns

Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.

Problem Solving: Jay Abraham

You are surrounded by simple, obvious solutions that can dramatically increase your income, power, influence and success. The problem is, you just don't see them.

Failure: Henry Ford

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

Business: Ambrose Bierce

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Decision Making: Peter Drucker

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Ideas: Tim Blixseth

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

Foresight: Edward de Bono

Traditional thinking is all about "what is." Future thinking will also need to be about "what can be."

Team: Lee Iacocca

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two.

Mistakes: Alan Bond

Everybody makes business mistakes. I mean, I take the responsibility, and I did. I was the captain of the ship and I took that responsibility.

Opportunity: Josh Billings

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Perseverance: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance.

Success: Lee Iacocca

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

Problem Solving: Edward de Bono

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.