100 Business Quotes For Motivation & Success

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Here are a list of very powerful inspirational and motivational quotes about business success and growth with positive words of encouragement for men & women.

Whether you are an entrepreneur just starting out or a seasoned executive in your industry, we all know that the most important factor in your journey is keeping a sharp mind.

Negative thoughts always have a way of creeping back in and causing stress and and anxiety which can affect your decision making process and the ability to perform at a high level.

This is why it’s important to fill your mind with positive words each day so you can stay focused and committed to the task at hand.

Each and every day you go out there to “play the game”, it is going to force you to have to improve and become a better version of yourself.

So we have compiled some of the best quotes, sayings, thoughts, phrases, and messages about business that cover such topics as overcoming hard times, success, self doubt, overcoming fear, stress, being a visionary, hard work, thinking big, making mistakes, never giving up, setting and achieving goals, failure, courage, hustling and grinding, customers, leadership, and more.

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INSPIRATIONAL BUSINESS QUOTES

Be so good they can’t ignore you. – Steve Martin

Don’t let your fear decide your future. – Shalane Flanagan

Tough times don’t last. Tough people do. – Robert H. Schuller

Opportunities don’t happen. You create them. – Chris Grosser

If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. – Suzy Kassem

What would you do if you weren’t afraid? – Sheryl Sandberg

You are the only one who can limit your greatness.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and follower. – Steve Jobs

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. – W. Clement Stone

Work so hard that one day your signature will be called an autograph.

Create a vision that makes you wanna jump out of bed in the morning.

I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.

At first they’ll ask you why you’re doing it. Later, they’ll ask you how you did it.

The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and follower. – Steve Jobs

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it. – Jim Rohn

We are never in lack of money. We lack people with dreams who can die for those dreams. – Jack Ma

BEST BUSINESS QUOTES OF ALL TIME

Stop selling. Start helping. – Zig Ziglar

Play by the rules, but be ferocious. – Phil Knight

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – Milton Berle

I will prepare and some day my chance will come. – Abraham Lincoln

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose. – George Lucas

Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once. – Drew Houston

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. – Thomas Jefferson

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. – Seneca

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. – Mark Zuckerberg

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. – Francis Bacon

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. – Steve Jobs

Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you. – Mark Cuban

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston S. Churchill

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. – Henry Ford

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. – Peter Drucker

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. – Sun Tzu

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Thomas Watson

Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life…do that. – Gary Vaynerchuk

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. – Warren Buffet

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later! – Richard Branson

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. – Conrad Hilton

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. – Dale Carnegie

POWERFUL BUSINESS QUOTES

Quality is the best business plan. – John Lasseter

Hire character. Train skill. – Peter Schutz

Sell the problem you solve, not the product.

Focus on being productive instead of busy. – Tim Ferris

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all. – Michael LeBoeuf

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. – Peter F. Drucker

Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers. – Seth Godin

The biggest mistake a small business can make is to think like a small business.

If people like you they’ll listen to you but if they trust you they’ll do business with you. – Zig Ziglar

The golden rule for every business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place.” – Orison Swett Marden

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people. – Steve Jobs

If you aren’t making a difference in other people’s lives, you shouldn’t be in business – it’s that simple. – Richard Branson

Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life. – Michael LeBoeuf

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight Eisenhower

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. – Jeff Bezos

If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. – Steve Jobs

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. – Henry Ford

100% of customers are people. 100% of employees are people. If you don’t understand people, you don’t understand business. – Simon Sinek

You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you’re asking for money! – Gary Vaynerchuk

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. – Sam Walton

What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed. – Dave Thomas

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

BUSINESS QUOTES ABOUT CHANGE

Change is the only constant.

If the plan doesn’t work change the plan not the goal. – Unknown

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. – Albert Einstein

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. – Winston Churchill

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. – Coco Chanel

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. – Warren Buffett

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change.

Don’t miss out on something that could be great just because it could also be difficult.

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right. – Tony Robbins

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. – Dan Millman

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw

BUSINESS QUOTES FOR SUCCESS

Work hard in silence. Let success make the noise.

It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. – Estee Lauder

The path to success is to take massive, determined action. – Tony Robbins

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. – Florence Nightingale

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. – R Colier

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau

Success doesn’t just come and find you, you have to go out and get it.

Networking is not collecting contacts! Networking is about planting relations. – MiSha.at

Success is what happens after you have survived all of your disappointments.

Here is the simple but powerful rule… always give people more than they expect to get. – Nelson Boswell

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. – Colin Powell

Giving up on your goal because of one setback is like slashing your other three tires because you got a flat.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart. – Thomas J. Watson

Your true success in life begins only when you make the commitment to become excellent at what you do. – Brian Tracy

Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow. – Oprah Winfrey

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. – Roy L. Smith

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want. – Tony Robbins

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

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. – Charles F Kettering

FUNNY BUSINESS QUOTES

If it’s stupid but works, it isn’t stupid.

If at first you don’t succeed, take the tax loss. – Kirk Kirkpatrick

Do not underestimate your abilities. That is your boss’s job.

Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. – George Burns

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Every employee rises to the level of his own incompetence. – The Peter Principle

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor. – John Ciardi

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon

Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it. – Andrew Young

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.

The politicians say ‘we’ can’t afford a tax cut. Maybe we can’t afford the politicians. – Steve Forbes

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it. – WC Fields

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