Success is the goal of every entrepreneur. Whether you are just starting out or growing, connecting with other entrepreneurs can help you on your difficult road to success.
Inspirational quotes can encourage you to work hard every day and be innovative in difficult times, both of which are key to your success.
Business Quotes, Part 1
1- "It is good to celebrate success, but it is more important to learn from failure.
Bill Gates
2- "One of the biggest mistakes people make is that they try to impose an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you."
Jeff Bezos
3- "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration".
Thomas Edison
4- "If you can't do big things, do small things in a big way".
Napoleon Hill
5- "Entrepreneurship is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so you can spend the rest of your life like most people won't."
The student of Warren G. Tracy
6- "To win without risk is to triumph without glory".
Crow
7- "When you stop dreaming, you stop living".
Malcolm Forbes
8- "Formal education will make you live; self-education will make you rich."
Jim Rohn
9- "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
Ralph Nader
10- "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius
Business Quotes, Part 2
11- "Your most dissatisfied customers are your greatest source of learning."
Bill Gates
12- "What do you need to start your business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone else, know your customer and have a burning desire to succeed."
Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's.
13- "Money is gasoline on a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you don't go around to the gas stations."
Tim O'Reilly.
14- "Get big quietly, so as not to tip off your potential competitors."
Chris Dixon, co-founder and CEO of Hunch.
15- "Don't play games you don't understand, even if you see many other people making money from them."
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
16- "You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done".
Russell Simmons, founder of Def Jam Records
17- "Hire people of character. Train skills."
Peter Schultz, founder and director of GNF
18- "The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says "Go!" a leader says "Let's go!".
E.M Kelly, US Army
19- "Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."
Jim Rohn
20- "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't get trapped by dogma - living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And above all, have the courage to follow your heart and your intuition. In a way, they already know what you really want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs
Business Quotes, Part 3
21- "Stay self-financing as long as possible".
Garrett Camp, founder of Expa, Uber and StumbleUpon.
22- "Turn a perceived risk into an asset".
Aaron Patzer, founder of Mint
23- "It is more effective to do something worthwhile than to hope that a logo or a name says it for you."
Jason Cohen, founder of Smartbear Software
24- "Data beats emotion".
Sean Rad, founder of Adly and Tinder
25- "Be undeniably good. No amount of marketing or social media buzzwords can substitute for that."
Anthony Volodkin, founder of Hype Machine
26- "Make your product easier to buy than your competitors', or you will find that your customers buy from them, not you."
Mark Cuban
27- "Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give - with a few exceptions - generalise everything they have done. Don't over-analyse everything. I myself have been guilty of overthinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work."
Ben Silbermann, founder of Pinterest
28- "Before you dream about the future or make plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you like entrepreneurs do."
Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn
29- "Associate with good people, for it is better to be alone than in bad company".
Booker T. Washington
30- "Don't be arrogant. Don't be flashy. There is always someone better than you.
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
Business Quotes, Part 4
31 "All humans are entrepreneurs not because they have to create businesses, but because the will to create is encoded in the human DNA."
Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn
32- "A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader doesn't necessarily take people where they want to go, but where they need to be."
Rosalynn Carter
33- "A leader is best when people hardly know he exists; when the job is done, the goal achieved, they will say: we did it ourselves."
Lao Tzeu
34- "An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew, hoping to learn how to chew it quickly."
Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
35- "Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what fuels creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me that business is not a financial science; it's about commerce: buying and selling."
Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop
36- "But as an entrepreneur, you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you think you're going to catch a passing bird. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs will gamble because the bird doesn't fly by, but sometimes it does."
Reed Hastings , CEO of Netflix
37- "Follow the vision, not the money; the money will eventually follow you".
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
38- "Leading is the art of getting someone else to do something you want to accomplish, because they want to do it."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
39- "Share openly and tell people about your idea. Use their lack of interest or doubt to fuel your motivation to make it happen."
Todd Garland, founder of BuySellAds
40- "Get into good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem America's soul."
John Lewis
Business Quotes, Part 5
41- "Design is not just what it looks or feels like. Design is also how it works."
Steve Jobs, founder, chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
42- "Nothing can stop the power of a committed people determined to make a difference in our society. Why? Because human beings are the most dynamic link to the divine on this planet."
John Lewis
43- "Your reputation is more important than your salary, and your integrity is worth more than your career."
Ryan Freitas, co-founder of About.me
44- "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader."
John Quincy Adams
45- "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you will do things differently."
Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
46- "The way you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.
Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia
47- "If you seek to lead, invest at least 40% of your time in managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation and conduct. Invest at least 30% in managing those who have authority over you, and 15% in managing your peers."
De Hock
48- "Stay away from people who try to lower your ambitions. Little people always do that, but big people make you feel that you too can become great."
Mark Twain
49- "There is only one success: to be able to live your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
50- "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve".
Napoleon Hill
Your business quotes
Do you know of any other business quotes that have made you think a lot? That you find interesting? That have served you well in life? Quote some of them in a comment!
