Business Quotes
Starting a business is tough, not just practically or financially but emotionally, too. Business requires a lot of dedication and hard work to make it flourish. So whether you’re trying to make more sales or you want to start a business, these business quotes from famous business gurus will serve as a huge source of inspiration.
In this article, you will find our collection of business quotes that will motivate you to take that bold step to move your business or business ideas to the next level.
60 Powerful Business Quotes & Sayings
“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.” – Henry Ford
“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” – Richard Branson
“If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.” – Steve Jobs
“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.” – Henry Ford
“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.” – Zig Ziglar
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow.” – Anthony Robbins
”I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey
“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Thomas Watson
“Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, trans-formative success is.” – Seth Godin
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
“Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that’s why more money doesn’t make you rich – assets make you rich.” – Robert Kiyosaki
“If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.” – Jeff Bezos
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” – Henry Ford
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
“A man should never neglect his family for business.” – Walt Disney
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” – William Durant
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
“If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.” – Walt Disney
“Most of our competitors were one-product wonders … They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.” – Bill Gates
“Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.” – Seth Godin
“Unless you dream, you’re not going to achieve anything.” – Richard Branson
“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson
”You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” – Warren Buffett
“There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.” – Oprah Winfrey
“The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.” – Thomas Watson
“There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” – Seth Godin
“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember – the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” – Zig Ziglar
“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” – Steve Jobs
“I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.” – Jeff Bezos
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates
“There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.” – Henry Ford
“You know, you don’t have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don’t need a college degree, you just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.” – Farrah Gray
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rodgers
“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel
“Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” – Peter Drucker
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.” – Dennis Waitley
“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.” – Norman Schwarzkopf
“Business in a combination of War and sport.” – Andre Maurois
“Surviving a failure gives you more self–confidence. Failures are great learning tools… but they must be kept to a minimum.” – Jeffrey Immelt
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder
“Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” – Vince Lombardi
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
“I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.” – Donald Trump
“We generate fears while we sit. We over come them by action. Fear is natures way of warning us to get busy.” – Dr. Henry Link
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.” – Henry Ford
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
“Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it’s starting a new business, whether it’s leaving home, whether it’s getting married, or whether it’s flying into space.” – Chris Hadfield
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” – Walt Disney