| "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| "It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." Whitney M. Young, Jr. |
| "All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once." Raul Lopez |
| "Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do." Pele |
| "I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion." Mia Hamm |
| "No matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the exciting part." Tiger Woods |
| "The recognition and understanding of the need was the primary condition of the creative act. When people feel they had to express themselves for originality for its own sake, that tends not to be creativity. Only when you get into the problem and the problem becomes clear, can creativity take over." Charles Eames |
| "One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." Benjamin Disraeli |
| "For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough." Zig Ziglar |
| "An entrepreneur can become moderately successful doing the same thing that everyone else does. But if you want to be wildly successful, you have to do what no one else has done." Tim Gill |
| "In the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organisation...she or he only focuses on the garment hanging on the rail in the store." Giorgio Armani |
| "I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical." Giorgio Armani |
| "Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming." Richard Branson |
| "About 70% of customers' buying decisions are based on positive human interactions with sales staff. The bottom line is that people buy from people, not companies." Lee J. Colan |
| "Advertising is the life of trade." Calvin Coolidge |
| "The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." George Eliot |
| "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.... Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art." Andy Warhol |
| "It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it." Gerard Patrick Roeling |
| "You now have to decide what 'image' you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place." David Ogilvy |
| "If you don't believe in your product, or if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work." Jay Levinson |
| "Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress." Herbert Hoover |
| "The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have." Joyce Brothers |
| "Never spend your money before you have it." Thomas Jefferson |
| "You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait." Ellen Metcalf |
| "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." Herman Cain |
| "After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world." Pam Shaw |
| "Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognise... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished." Claude Levi-Strauss |
| "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." George Bernard Shaw |
| "Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them." Theodor Adorno |
| "I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy." F.W. Woolworth (1852-1919). |
