Have you ever wondered what the secret to business success is? If you’re an entrepreneur or a business owner, you know what a challenge it is to forge your own path. More often than not, there are no maps and no guidelines, meaning that you have to navigate to uncharted territory. When the going gets tough, it’s important to have something that inspires you to keep pushing ahead. To help you overcome challenges and struggles, we’ve created the following selection of the most inspirational business quotes. These are the quotes to inspire success. Enjoy reading.
Countless sleepless nights and a high level of uncertainty are not too unfamiliar to business owners and founders alike. Add to this mixture moments of doubt or even failures and you have a pretty intense combination of challenges entrepreneurs are struggling with.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston S. Churchill
Whenever you’re confronted with occasional moments of frustration, it’s important to have something at hand that helps you to keep your vision in mind. Not only will this help you to keep going every extra mile necessary, but it will also help you to readjust your path.
These are the business quotes that keep pushing you ahead when the going gets tough.
Not losing sight of your vision is of great importance as it acts as your foundation and is the beacon that lights the way. One way to fuel your motivation to succeed is to surround yourself with inspiring individuals who’ve ideally already forged their own path to success. The difficulty, however, is that such a mentor is not always at hand. That’s where quotes come in handy.
133 Inspirational Business Quotes to Inspire Success
The knowledge and wisdom of remarkably successful entrepreneurs can be quite profound. However, it can be quite difficult to come across these individuals in real life. Similarly, it’s almost impossible to read hundreds of books to discover the hidden gems concealed within them – especially when you have a tight schedule. That’s what’s so powerful about the following business quotes. They all come from exceptionally successful and crafty individuals who’ve experienced many similar struggles and challenges.
Here’s our collection of inspirational business quotes
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“Remember every time you fail, remind yourself these words: ‘Life won’t always go my way, but I will always find a way’.”
Josiah Humphrey
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“Always deliver more than expected.”
Larry Page
3.
“If something is important enough, or you believe something is important enough, even if you are scared, you will keep going.”
Elon Musk
4.
“If you start thinking you are good at something, that’s often the day you stop trying to be better.”
Drew Houston
5.
“Do not focus on numbers. Focus on doing what you do best.”
Cassey Ho
6.
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Bill Gates
7.
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
Peter Drucker
8.
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
Lance Armstrong
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“No matter how many customers you have, each is an individual. The day you start thinking of them as this amorphous ‘collection’ and stop thinking of them as people is the day you start going out of business.”
Dharmesh Shah
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“Passion, creativity, and resilience are the most crucial skills in business. If you’ve got those, you’re ready to embark on the journey.”
Jo Malone
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“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product; you’ve launched too late.”
Gretta Rose van Riel
12.
“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.”
Henry Ford
13.
“Ignore the hype of the startups that you see in the press. Mostly, it’s a pack of lies. Half of these startups will be dead in a year. So, focus on building your business so you can be the one left standing.”
Jules Pieri
14.
“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”
Howard Schultz
15.
“When in doubt, bootstrap. Using your own personal resources is the easiest way to start a business. You don’t have to convince investors about the merits of your idea. You just have to convince yourself.”
Ryan Holmes
16.
“If you tune it so that you have zero chance of failure, you usually also have zero chance of success. The key is to look at ways for when you get to your failure checkpoint, you know to stop.”
Reid Hoffman
17.
“As a founder, lay all the possible scenarios – from best to worst – in front of you, so you don’t get surprised when something happens.”
Brian Wong
18.
“Keep moving forward.”
Walt Disney
19.
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
Richard Branson
20.
“Starting a company extracts so much energy and conviction that not having a clear-cut goal and meaningful mission can hamper your success.”
Sami Inkinen
21.
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.”
Calvin Coolidge
22.
“Remember, there’s no such thing as an unrealistic goal – just unrealistic time frames.”
Donald Trump
23.
“One of the most important lessons is to be clear to investors about what the company will and will not do. And be open about the priorities of the things that have to be done.”
Dennis Crowley
24.
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas A. Edison
25.
“There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.”
Sophie Kinsella
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“I’m always tweaking, always trying to make it better, constantly moving the levers and dials.”
Steve Ells
27.
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
Vince Lombardi
28.
“One of the greatest skills of leadership is being unflappable. Anytime you do anything in the world; there’s going to be criticism.”
Arianna Huffington
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“Don’t try to do everything by yourself, but try to connect with people and resources. Having that discipline and perseverance is really important.”
Chieu Cao
30.
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”
Socrates
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“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.”
Thomas Paine
32.
“Don’t get distracted. Never tell yourself that you need to be the biggest brand in the whole world. Start by working on what you need at the present moment and then what you need to do tomorrow. So, set yourself manageable targets.”
Jas Bagniewski
33.
“You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.”
Jessica Herrin
34.
“It’s about not taking failures personally.”
Leila Janah
35.
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
Steve Jobs
36.
“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”
Scott Belsky
37.
“If you’re starting something on your own, you better have a passion for it, because this is hard work.”
Sallie Krawcheck
38.
“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you’re in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.”
Sidney Sheldon
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“Selling is not a pushy, winner-takes-all, macho act. It is an empathy-led, process-driven, and knowledge-intensive discipline. Because, in the end, people buy from people.”
Subroto Bagchi
40.
“The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.”
Stephen Richards
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“People are the most important thing. Business model and product will follow if you have the right people.”
Adam Neumann
42.
“If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”
Mark Zuckerberg
43.
“Don’t let others convince you that the idea is good when your gut tells you it’s bad.”
Kevin Rose
44.
“Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”
Anthony Volodkin
45.
“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”
Tony Hsieh
46.
“Don’t get distracted. Never tell yourself that you need to be the biggest brand in the whole world. Start by working on what you need at the present moment and then what you need to do tomorrow. So, set yourself manageable targets.”
Jas Bagniewski
47.
“If you can offer a free tier that provides a lot of value, it will naturally help your product to spread much more rapidly.”
Melanie Perkins
48.
“You telling everyone what to do does not make you the boss. You doing everything you told yourself to do makes you the boss.”
Terry Crews
49.
“One of the things I tend to do is open myself up to a variety of voices. I try to expose myself to the kind of culture shock that occurs when you talk to people who speak a different language.”
Pierre Omidyar
50.
“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
Coco Chanel
51.
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney
52.
“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.”
Steve Jobs
53.
“Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”
Wayne Huizenga
54.
“If we tried to think of a good idea, we wouldn’t have been able to think of a good idea. You just have to find the solution to a problem in your own life.”
Brian Chesky
55.
“Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.”
Sara Blakely
56.
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
Henry David Thoreau
57.
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
Beverly Sills
58.
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
Winston S. Churchill
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“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”
Dolly Parton
60.
“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.”
Isaac Asimov
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“Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”
Biz Stone
62.
“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.”
Steve Jobs
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“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
Thomas A. Edison
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“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
Ronald Reagan
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“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”
Sam Walton
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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Helen Keller
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“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
Herbert Bayard Swope
68.
“I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business.”
Warren Buffett
69.
“I only back people with a track record who can execute ruthlessly and flawlessly… Real killers… no matter the industry or company geography.”
Ziad K. Abdelnour,
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“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston S. Churchill
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“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.”
Sheryl Sandberg
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“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
Robert F. Kennedy
73.
“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity”
Sun-Tzu
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“An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.”
Jeff Stoller
75.
“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”
Estee Lauder
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“Great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.”
Steve Jobs
77.
“A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.”
Fred Wilson
78.
“Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.”
Robert Strauss
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“The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.”
Michael Scott
80.
“You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.”
Joel Osteen
81.
“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
Peter Drucker
82.
“Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.”
Mike Norton
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“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
Napoleon Hill
84.
“Winning isn’t everything – but wanting to win is.”
Vince Lombardi
85.
“If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.”
Simon Sinek
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“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
Benjamin Franklin
87.
“Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined and connected to one another. And, when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.”
Daniel Pink
88.
“To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants!”
Lillian Cauldwell
89.
“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
Sun Tzu
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“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki
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“Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.”
Steve Jobs
92.
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
Winston S. Churchil
93.
“Today I get 100 times more done with 100 times less effort. What’s my secret I learned to stop being a cadet and start being a general.”
Joshua Dorkin
94.
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go if you really want to go.”
Langston Hughes
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“The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself.”
Idowu Koyenikan
96.
“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
John Maxwell
97.
“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”
Henry Ford
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“Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!”
Jillian Michaels
99.
“An effective boss is someone who doesn’t have to boss around to be effective.”
Jag Randhawa
100.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
Steve Jobs
101.
“Using guilt is not productive. Appealing to the greatness of others is what works for Warren, and it will work for you.”
David Clark
102.
“Every effective winning strategy is mapped out by focusing on the desired end goal.”
Wayne Chirisa
103.
“Have the end in mind and every day make sure you’re working towards it.”
Ryan Allis
104.
“Punishment demotivates when it comes from people rather than a system of well-defined rules”
Yegor Bugayenko
105.
“You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”
Abraham Lincoln
106.
“Study the past if you would define the future.”
Confucius
107.
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
108.
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
109.
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
Leonardo da Vinci
110.
“If the manager of a company can put the needs of their staff ahead of their own ego, then that business has a good chance of prospering.”
Stewart Stafford
111.
“Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.”
Tony Hsieh
112.
“Leaders can change the tenor of the workplace and create harmony in motion toward a favorable result. So every time you say to your team, “Let’s rock and roll,” make sure you have already set up the stage to where they can actually perform like rock stars.”
Thomas Huynh
113.
“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”
Reid Hoffman
114.
“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.”
Dr Roopleen
116.
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
Mario Andretti
117.
“Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.”
Brian Tracy
118.
“Life is like the pages of a book. You are free to read any page of your choice but remember, your success or failure depends on the page you have read.”
Godspower Oparaugo
119.
“A leader is best
When people barely know he exists
Of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, “We did this ourselves.”
Lao Tzu
120.
“Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.”
Roy T. Bennett
121.
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
Winston S. Churchill
122.
“All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”
Reid Hoffman
123.
“The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
Nolan Bushnell
124.
“A team member is first a person, secondly an employee. Treat them as a valued person and they’ll value their employers.”
Janna Cachola
125.
“To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running”
Richard Branson
126.
“This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
Peter Drucker
127.
“Great results, can be achieved with small forces.”
Sun Tzu
128.
“In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”
Steve Case
129.
“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
Barack Obama
130.
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Theodore Roosevelt
131.
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
George Bernard Shaw
132.
“At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”
Steve Maraboli
133.
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
Robert H. Schuller
I hope you enjoyed this collection of inspirational business quotes. What are your favorite quotes that inspire you to strive for greatness with your business endeavors?
Stay victorious!
