Estee Lauder

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

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.

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.

Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.

Every day is a new opportunity to change your life and be who you want to be.

When you try to come for me, I keep on flourishing.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

A habit is like a cable: we weave a thread of it everyday, and at last we cannot break it – so we must form good, positive, and productive habits.

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.

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

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

Yes, we can

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

He was also efficient and gave me his four-step formula for success: 1. Get in. 2. Get it done. 3. Get it done right. 4. And get out.

It is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

Many people who want to be great aren’t willing to do the work to make it possible!

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.