Estee Lauder

Risk-taking is the cornerstone of empires.

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

Business is there if you go after it.

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

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.

All great things begin with a vision … a dream.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.

You have nothing to lose. Everything you have acquired of value is locked inside you.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

It takes a person who is wide-awake to make his dream come true.

“Success in life is knowing the difference between ham and eggs; the chicken’s involved, the pig is committed.”