29 Quotes by Donny Deutsch

Every business is about understanding people. Which people you have to get through. Which people you have to embrace. Which people you have to jump over. Which people you have to push out of the way. That’s the game.

If you can’t embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can’t be wildly successful. It’s just an axiomatic truth.

The greatest business icons-it’s not that they were worth hundreds of millions, or billions or trillions of dollars, it’s that they moved society forward.

That outgrowth of arrogance comes at a price: some people don’t like is. I take responsibility for that.

To me, it’s always what’s next and I think that’s what drives most very successful people. It’s never about the money. I mean that’s a way of keeping score. It’s about achievement and it’s about winning a game and it’s about upping the ante.

I’ve built my success on the idea that a win for me involves a win for everyone around me.

The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.

If the person who runs a company has a belief system and everything he does stays fairly truly to that system, it will attract like-minded people who buy into it and then keeps selling itself in concentric circles.

The only thing I hated about the agency business was a lot of business travel. It was the only part of my job that I did not like. I found it very tedious and wearing.