Top 50 Inspirational business quotes to help you push through rough days to a brighter moment ahead. Get inspired!
Best Inspirational Quotes to Inspire Success In Your Business
PREAMBLE
Running a successful business requires a lot of hard work. And at times, you might feel like you won't reap the fruit of your labour.
That's why I combined this 50 Inspirational business quotes to help you push through rough days to a brighter moment ahead.
For the best result, don't just read and scroll through these inspectional business quotes.
You will also need to think about how each one applies to your business. Read over again, reflect and apply.
I hope you can draw inspiration from these quotes as you continue to build and grow your business.
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50 Best Inspirational Business Quotes of all Time.
And now, without further ado, the best business quotes to motivate you to greater success!
Business Quotes about starting a Business
1. “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”
- Madam C.J. Walke.
2. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.”
- Dhirubhai Ambani.
3. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”
- Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook.
4. “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, CEO and co-founder of Apple Inc.
5. “All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”
- Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn
6. “Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.”
- Shonda Rhimes, producer.
7. “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, Founder of Wendy’s.
8. “Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.”
- Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.
9. “Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”
- Noah Everett, founder of Twitpic
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Business Quotes for Running a Business
10. “Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn’t.”
- Michelle Obama, lawyer and former first lady of the United States.
11.“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
- John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States.
12. “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”
- Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn.
13. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”
- Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter
Business Quotes for Self Development
14. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.”
- Venus Williams, tennis player.
15. “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”
- Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder.
16. “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”
- Wayne Huizenga, prolific American business person, owner of Blockbuster Video and the Miami Dolphins.
17. “It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”
- Jason Cohen, founder of Smartbear Software.
18. “See things in the present, even if they are in the future.”
- Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle.
19. “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”
- Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor.
20. “Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.”
- Roy T. Bennett, author.
21. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
- George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright.
22. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
- Charles Darwin, English naturalist, geologist and biologist.
23. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
- Michael Jordan, American former professional basketball player
Business quotes for risk-taking
24. “Take risks. Failure is a stepping stone to success.”
- Arianna Huffington, co-founder of The Huffington Post.
25. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
- Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company.
26. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
- Bill Gates, co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation.
27. “If you want to grow you have to do something different from the majority of people.”
- Lakshmi Mittal, CEO of ArcelorMittal.
28. “The road to success is always under construction.”
- Lily Tomlin, actress and comedian.
29. “If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.”
- Marissa Mayer, businesswoman and investor.
30. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
- Maya Angelou, author.
31. “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.”
- Oprah Winfrey, talk show host, producer, and philanthropist.
Business Quotes to Inspire
32. “Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.”
- Jim Rohn, entrepreneur and motivational speaker.
33. “In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.”
- Aliko Dangote, founder of Dangote Group.
34. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”
- Estée Lauder, co-founder of Estée Lauder Companies.
35. “It always seems impossible, until it is done.”
- Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa.
36. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
- Michael Jordan, former professional basketball player.
37. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
- Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II.
38. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
- Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist.
39. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”
- Larry Page, co-founder of Google.
40. “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”
- Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States.
41. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
- Henry David Thoreau, philosopher.
42. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
- Henry David Thoreau, essayist, poet, and philosopher.
43. “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
- Tony Robbins, life and business strategist, and author.
44. “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”
- Robert Collier, author.
45. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
- Conrad Hilton, Founder of the Hilton Hotels chain.
Business Quotes About not Giving-up.
46. “If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”
- Martin Luther King Jr., leader of the civil rights movement.
47. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
- Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II.
48. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does — that makes you a winner right there.”
- Venus Williams, American professional tennis player.
49. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
- Earl Nightingale, American radio speaker and author.
50. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
- Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft
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