Estee Lauder

Each businessperson must find a style, that voice that grows clearer and louder with each success and failure. Observing your own and your competitors’ successes and failures makes your inner business voice more sure and vivid.

I am a visceral person by nature. I act on instinct, quickly, without pondering possible disaster and without indulging in deep introspection.

When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.

First comes the shy wish. Then you must have the heart to have the dream. Then, you work, and work.

I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.

People do make their luck by daring to follow their instincts, taking risks and embracing every possibility.

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

Feeling is more important than thought.

Selling is something we do for our clients – not to our clients.

The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

I’m so optimistic, I’d go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.

In the marathon of life, success calls for dedication to the goal, perseverance, compassion for my fellow man, and faith in God.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

Good things come to those who believe, better things come to those who are patient and the best things come to those who don’t give up.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Remember this: Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy. Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who lack the same courage to do what is right.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.