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The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much.

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.

Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

The business plan should address: "How will I get customers? How will I market the product or service? Who will I target?" The principles of a business plan are pretty much the same. But after page one to two, everything is unpredictable, because costs or competition will change and you don't know how things will be received by the market. You have to be able to continually adapt. Companies that fail to adapt will die. Others are brilliant at adapting.

Yogi Berra quote: If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace...

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

John Ruskin quote: Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

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25 of the Best Planning Quotes

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It seems that people have been writing about planning for as long as people have been writing. No surprise there. No enterprise, whether it’s assembling the space shuttle or getting dinner on the table, is done well without a project plan .

Every project manager, team leader or successful person for that matter, knows the importance of planning. However, having a plan is very important but it’s not the only thing to do. Sometimes it’s easy to get overly excited about a project, causing you to neglect best practices such as creating a thorough project management plan or using a project planning software .

That’s why we collected 25 of the best planning quotes, to inspire you to slow down and craft a thorough plan that will lead you to your goal, whether that be an iPhone app, an artistic masterpiece or Valentine’s Day dinner.

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Planning Quotes

1. “it does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near one.” – j.r.r. tolkien.

This planning quote from Tolkien’s fantasy classic The Hobbit does what all good quotes should do, speaks to the reader on many levels. This is, of course, a piece of dialogue that moves the plot forward. But Tolkien isn’t merely talking about made-up lands. He’s referring to the necessity of identifying risk in any thorough plan.

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Planning Quote J.R.R. Tolkien

2. “By Failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin

You can always count on our Founding Fathers for good copy, and none gives better than Benjamin Franklin. He collected them in his Old Farmer’s Almanac and a few probably made their way into some of our fundamental governing documents. Freeing a country from under the powerful arm of a great power is going to take some planning, which Franklin knew was the first step towards success.

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Planning Quote Benjamin Franklin

3. “Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem

Sometimes we forget that a plan is document that puts structure around an idea. But without that vision to set the plan in motion, there’s really no point in following through. Feminist icon Gloria Steinem understands that before there is a plan, there is a dream. That’s always the first step in any plan.

Planning Quote Gloria Steinem

4. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln

No president had to face as great a challenge as Abraham Lincoln. If he didn’t spend time planning and placing sensitive pieces, it’s likely that we’d be living in a very different country today. Never neglect the time and effort necessary for due diligence before action.

Related: Time Management Strategies & Tools

Planning Quote Abraham Lincoln

5. “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra

Out of the mouth of baseball players often comes great wisdom. The term Yogi-isims was created to describe Berra’s malapropisms and unintentional witticism. But they’re not just for laughs. As simple as the above statement is, nothing is more true.

Planning Quote Yogi Berra

6. “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” – John F. Kennedy

President John Kennedy filled the United States with hope, and then we all know what happened. But when we still were filled with a sense of optimism about the future, Kennedy made it clear that whatever future we had in front of us was due to what we did behind it.

Related: The 25 Most Inspiring Leadership Quotes

Planning Quote John F. Kennedy

7. “The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done…you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.” – Lil Wayne

Hip-hop is omnivorous, so it was only a matter of time before a rapper like Lil Wayne spoke to the concerns of project managers. While it’s important to learn from your mistakes, you can get bogged down on the “blame game.” Figure out where you fell; then get back up, and try again.

Planning Quote Lil Wayne

8. “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt hits on something important here with this quote about planning. She understands the human capacity to wish upon a star, to want something badly and hope that, by some trick of chance or fate, it will be given to you. But things rarely land on your lap, and if they do, they might not be what you want. Plan and you will receive.

Planning Quote Eleanor Roosevelt

9. “Have a bias towards action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.” – Indira Gandhi

The Indian politician and stateswoman would have made a great project manager. She sees that big projects are made up of small, actionable takes. Plans are broken down into phases called milestones, which are made up of tasks, and that way things get done.

Related: 10 Best Project Management Quotes

Planning Quote Indria Gandhi

10. “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.” – Peter F. Drucker

Author and educator Peter Drucker is saying that there is no plan without buy-in from all parties involved. That means from the stakeholders to the team members. The project leader must motivate and get everyone committed, or else a plan is useless.

Planning Quote Peter F. Drucker

11. “Making a plan without the right tools is like making spaghetti without a pot.” – Me

Yeah, I just made that one up. Give it time, though. I’m sure it’ll be up there with Lincoln, Socrates and Martha Stewart as a top-tier, super quotable quote. Why? Because it’s true!

There’s meaning embedded in there: planning is really just an abstract act until you execute that plan. If you don’t have a pot, or project management tools, then your spaghetti, or project, isn’t going to get done.

Plans are complicated, like recipes. There are a lot of ingredients you need to keep track of and place in the right order. ProjectManager is a project management software that helps projects get organized. Its online Gantt chart pulls a task list into a schedule on a project timeline, complete with milestones and linked task dependencies, so everything works together as planned.

Watch the video to learn more about ProjectManager’s project planning tools, and how they can help make your next project plan a success.

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12. “A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door.” – Confucius

Few have had a greater influence on more people than Chinese philosopher Confucius. It’s not hard to see why, with such sage sayings as this one. Planning is essential to the survival of everything, from a project to a person. We all must plan or suffer great risk.

Planning Quote Confucius

13. “Always plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” – Richard Cushing

Richard Cushing, an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, shows that regardless of your beliefs, there is wisdom in religious text. You can find it in this planning quote, which is a perfect example of the necessity of being prepared.

Planning Quote Richard Cushing

14. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett

Who understands the need to prepare for the future better than an investor, and who is a better investor than Warren Buffett? Plan now and reap the benefits later. That’s true in financial markets or building a skyscraper. It takes time, but the hard work pays off.

Planning Quote Warren Buffett

15. “Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” – Pablo Picasso

Even creative types like fabled master of modern art Pablo Picasso knew that inspiration is only a small part of any effort. The creative process is one of planning, failing and planning anew. But those plans are rooted in a belief that they will work. Without that faith, there is no plan that will clear the hurdles that block the progress of any project.

Related: What it Takes to Be a Great Creative Project Manager

Planning Quote Pablo Picasso

16. “Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.” – Tom Landry

Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Tom Landry knows a thing or two about leading a team to success. While scoring points is, of course, how you do it, that’s not as easily said as done. A good coach uses a plan to exploit the talents of this team, and sticks to it – unless it must change . Landry didn’t say that, but I did.

Planning Quote Tom Landry

17. “Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.” – Thomas Edison

Yes, sometimes the fates are smiling on you, and it’s as if everything just falls into place. But you can’t bank on luck. Inventor Thomas Edison saw that while opportunity is important, if you’re not prepared for it by having a plan to take advantage, then that opportunity will pass you by.

Planning Quote Thomas Edison

18. “Just because you made a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.” Taylor Swift

Singer, songwriter and all-around cultural phenom Taylor Swift knows that a good plan is a good start. But if you want to finish what you started you might have to throw that plan out and make a new one. Things change, including your plan.

Planning Quote Taylor Swift

19. “Unless you have definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.” – Zig Ziglar

Motivational speaker Zig Ziglar says that the sharper your focus, the closer you’ll come to hitting your target. Planning must be thorough, thinking through all the resources you’ll need , the budget and the time you must complete the project. The more planning you do, the better your results.

Planning Quote Zig Ziglar

20. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” – Alexander Graham Bell

Creating the telephone took planning. Alexander Graham Bell might have had his eye on the prize, but he understood the need to prepare for the process that would get him there.

Planning Quote Alexander Graham Bell

21. “To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.” – Leonard Bernstein

It’s funny because it’s true. Composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein knows that plans are everything; we can work them up to be as thorough as possible, but time will always make a joke of our plans. Things happen; time doesn’t care.

Planning Quote Leonard Bernstein

22. “The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.” – Jerry Brown

Jerry Brown has lead one of the largest states in the union and one of the largest economies in the world as governor of California. He’s probably seen a lot of wheel spinning that has never touch ground to lead to action. It’s a danger of planning that everyone should be aware of: plans are crucial, but without action they’re nothing.

Planning Quote Jerry Brown

23. “I ain’t Martin Luther King. I don’t need a dream. I have a plan.” – Spike Lee

Director Spike Lee is making a point. Of course, his work is driven by a passionate dream to create stories that he feels compelled to tell. But without having a plan, that’s all they would be, dreams.

Planning Quote Spike Lee

24. “When my company started really growing, I didn’t have any help in my house at all. I had the upkeep of my daily life, I had a one year old and a three year old, and I had my house. So I had to prioritize.” – Julie Aigner Clark

The entrepreneur who founded Baby Einstein hits on a key element of any strong plan. That is prioritization. A plan should be exhaustive, listing everything, no matter how minute. But then comes the hard part of prioritizing those tasks to know what must be done, what should be done and what could be left undone.

Related: What is OKR, and Why Are Top Companies Using It to Set Objectives?

Planning Quote Julie Aigner Clark

25. “I don’t believe in failure. It’s not failure if you enjoyed the process.” – Oprah Winfrey

Planning is the structuring of process. Failure is a part of every plan. That’s why there’s risk and risk management to prepare for the bumps on the road to success. As Oprah Winfrey notes, those failures are not failures; they’re part of the process.

Planning Quote Oprah Winfrey

26. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

The theory of evolution has been used to explain a lot of things, but let’s let the scientist who came up with idea from his observations have the last word. Charles Darwin might not be speaking about planning per se, but he understands that without being flexible all plans will break.

Planning Quote Charles Darwin

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The 200 Best Inspirational Business Quotes (2024)

Starting a business is tough. And not just practically or financially—but emotionally , too. Which is why these top inspirational business quotes are so valuable.

Each of these quotes is a bite-sized morsel of wisdom , capable of injecting that much-needed hit of inspiration, encouragement, and motivation.

So, when you’re exhausted, frustrated, anxious, worried, or just plain freaking out , read these inspirational business quotes for some remarkable ideas.

But don’t just scan through them. Try to think about how each one applies to your business .

Read . Re-read. Reflect. Apply.

OK, let’s dive into the top business quotes!

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Best business quotes of all time

These motivational business quotes are game changers. Get ready for some inspiration and action-packed advice.

  • “The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.” —Socrates, father of Western philosophy ( Click to tweet )
  • “Always deliver more than expected.” —Larry Page, co-founder of Google ( Click to tweet )
  • “Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give—with a few exceptions—generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.” —Ben Silbermann, founder of Pinterest ( Click to tweet )
  • “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” —John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States ( Click to tweet )
  • “Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.” —Angelo Sotira, co-founder of deviantART ( Click to tweet )
  • “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.” —Anthony Volodkin, founder of Hype Machine ( Click to tweet )
  • “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 ( Click to tweet )
  • “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.” —Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon ( Click to tweet )
  • “If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.” —Zig Ziglar, author, salesman, and motivational speaker ( Click to tweet )
  • “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” —Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn ( Click to tweet )
  • “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” —Thomas Edison, co-founder of General Electric ( Click to tweet )
  • “The stars will never align, and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.” —Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Work Week ( Click to tweet )
  • “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” —Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter ( Click to tweet )
  • “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” —Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Apple Inc. ( Click to tweet )
  • “Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.” —Mark Cuban, AXS TV chairman and entrepreneur ( Click to tweet )
  • “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” —Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft ( Click to tweet )
  • “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, founder of Facebook ( Click to tweet )
  • “If you define yourself by how you differ from the competition, you’re probably in trouble.” —Omar Hamoui, co-founder of AdMob ( Click to tweet )
  • “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” —Lisa Stone, co-founder and CEO of BlogHer ( Click to tweet )
  • “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.” —Josh James, CEO and co-founder of Omniture ( Click to tweet )
  • “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” —Scott Belsky, co-founder of Behance ( Click to tweet )
  • “Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” —Golda Meir, fourth Prime Minister of Israel ( Click to tweet )
  • “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.” —Jason Fried, 37signals founder and co-author of Rework ( Click to tweet )
  • “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.” —Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn ( Click to tweet )
  • “Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you.” —Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos ( Click to tweet )
  • “The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.” —Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA ( Click to tweet )
  • “Nothing works better than just improving your product.” —Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow ( Click to tweet )
  • “Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.” —Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga ( Click to tweet )
  • “Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.” —Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media ( Click to tweet )
  • “Get big quietly so you don’t tip off potential competitors.” —Chris Dixon, investor at Andreessen Horowitz ( Click to tweet )
  • “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” —Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. ( Click to tweet )
  • “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, US author, political activist, and lecturer ( Click to tweet )
  • “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.” —Paul Rand, graphic designer ( Click to tweet )
  • “Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.” —Lakshmi Mittal, chairman & CEO of ArcelorMittal ( Click to tweet )
  • “Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.” —Jeffrey Zeldman, entrepreneur and web designer ( Click to tweet )
  • “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” —Rob Kalin, founder of Etsy ( Click to tweet )
  • “If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.” —Ryan Freitas, co-founder of About.me ( Click to tweet )
  • “Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.” —Michael Arrington, founder and co-editor of TechCrunch ( Click to tweet )
  • “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” —Wayne Huizenga, prolific US business person. ( Click to tweet )
  • “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” —Guy Kawasaki, entrepreneur and co-founder of Alltop ( Click to tweet )
  • “An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.” —David Karp, founder, and CEO of Tumblr ( Click to tweet )
  • “Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.” —Kyle Bragger, founder of Forrst and co-founder of Exposure ( Click to tweet )
  • “Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.” —Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow ( Click to tweet )
  • “Anything that is measured and watched improves.” —Bob Parsons, founder of GoDaddy ( Click to tweet )
  • “Stay self-funded as long as possible.” —Garrett Camp, founder of Expa, Uber, and StumbleUpon ( Click to tweet )
  • “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 ( Click to tweet ) 
  • “Timing, perseverance, and 10 years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” —Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter ( Click to tweet )
  • “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, author ( Click to tweet )
  • “Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.” —Jason Calacanis, founder of LAUNCH Ticker ( Click to tweet )
  • “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 ( Click to tweet )
  • “No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life—and your own skin—every day of the week.” —Spencer Fry, co-founder of CarbonMade ( Click to tweet )
  • “You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.” —Peter Shankman, founder of HARO ( Click to tweet )
  • “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 ( Click to tweet )
  • “Data beats emotions.” —Sean Rad, founder of Tinder ( Click to tweet )
  • “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” —Estee Lauder, founder of Estee Lauder Cosmetics ( Click to tweet )
  • “I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.” —Jake Nickell, founder and CEO of Threadless ( Click to tweet )
  • “See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” —Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle ( Click to tweet )
  • “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” —Larry Page, co-founder of Google ( Click to tweet )
  • “Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.” —Michael Dell, chairman, and CEO of Dell ( Click to tweet )
  • “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” —Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company ( Click to tweet )
  • “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 ( Click to tweet )
  • “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” —Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft ( Click to tweet )
  • “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.” —Steve Case, co-founder of AOL ( Click to tweet )
  • “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” —Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor ( Click to tweet )
  • “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, co-founder of LinkedIn ( Click to tweet )
  • “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.” —Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos ( Click to tweet )
  • “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, founder of SPANX ( Click to tweet )
  • “Diligence is the mother of good luck.” —Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States ( Click to tweet )
  • “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” —Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures ( Click to tweet )
  • “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” —Howard Schultz, interim CEO of Starbucks ( Click to tweet )

Inspirational quotes about life

Let’s continue our list with some of the top inspirational quotes about life. Every now and then, everyone needs to hear about the positive side of life and the potential it has to offer. These inspirational quotes about life will help empower you to succeed.

  • “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” —Charles R. Swindoll, author, educator, and radio preacher
  • “If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney, co-founder of the Walt Disney Company
  • “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” —Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
  • “When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure,’ not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.’” —Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of Github
  • “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” —Les Brown, motivational speaker, author, and former politician
  • “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” ―Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor
  • “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — Les Brown , motivational speaker
  • “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney, co-founder of the Walt Disney Company
  • “Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.” ―Mary Anne Radmacher, author
  • “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ―Maya Angelou, poet, singer, and civil rights activist
  • “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
  • “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” ―Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor
  • “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ―George Bernard Shaw, playwrighter
  • “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” —Charles Darwin, naturalist, geologist and biologist
  • “Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.” —Sir Claus Moser, statistician
  • “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”—Michael Jordan, former professional basketball player

Inspirational quotes about success

Success doesn’t happen overnight. You have to take each day as an opportunity to meet your potential and to improve. Here’s a list of our favorite inspirational quotes about success to get your day started.

  • “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” —Henry David Thoreau, essayist, poet, and philosopher
  • “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
  • “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” —Colin R. Davis, conductor for the London Symphony Orchestra
  • “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember, that’s where you will find success.” —Thomas J. Watson, former president of IBM, political figure, and philanthropist
  • Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston Churchill, prime minister of Great Britain during World War II
  • “Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.” —Robert H. Schuller, motivational speaker
  • “Success is the sum of small efforts—repeated day in and day out.” —Robert Collier, author
  • “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” —Jim Rohn, business philosopher
  • “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” —Colin Powell, US statesman and retired four-star general in the United States Army

When you’re struggling, inspirational quotes like these can really make a difference. 

  • “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” —David Brinkley, newscaster
  • “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” —William Feather, publisher and author
  • “Try not to become a man of success. Rather, become a man of value.” —Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
  • “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” —Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
  • “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.” —Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft 
  • “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” —G. K. Chesterton, writer, poet, and philosopher
  • “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” —Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
  • “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

Quotes about not giving up

Never give up. Keep chasing your dreams. Life will be hard at times, and the strength lies in not giving up. Take a look at the best inspirational quotes about not giving up.

  • “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 US civil rights movement
  • “I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?” —Jill Konrath, speaker, author and thought leader
  • “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” —Japanese proverb
  • “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
  • “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” —Thomas Edison, entrepreneur and inventor
  • “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

Inspirational quotes like these do a great job at channeling some positive momentum. 

  • “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does—that makes you a winner right there.” —Venus Williams, professional tennis player
  • “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” —Maya Angelou, poet, singer, and civil rights activist
  • “Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald, fiction writer
  • “Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely on my tenacity.” —Louis Pasteur, biologist, microbiologist and chemist
  • “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” —Earl Nightingale, radio speaker and author
  • “You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.” ―Chuck Yeager, former US Air Force officer
  • “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” —Samuel Beckett, Irish avant-garde novelist and playwright
  • “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” —Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft

Quotes about working hard

Hard work helps to turn dreams into reality. These top quotes about working hard will help you get the job done.

  • “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” —Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr
  • “If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.” —Pierre Omidyar, founder and chairman of eBay
  • “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” —Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and President of the United States
  • “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” —Paulo Coelho, lyricist and novelist
  • “A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” —Colin Powell, US statesman and retired four-star general in the United States Army
  • “There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.” —Heather Bresch, CEO of Mylan
  • “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” —Pelé, professional footballer
  • “No great achiever—even those who made it seem easy—ever succeeded without hard work.” —Jonathan Sacks, author and politician
  • “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” —Harry Golden, writer
  • “There is no substitute for hard work.” —Thomas Edison, entrepreneur and inventor
  • “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” —Babe Ruth, professional baseball player

Quotes about challenges

We all face challenges in life. They can either make you or break you. We’ve compiled a list of our favorite quotes about challenges that will encourage you to keep going.

  • “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” —John D. Rockefeller,  oil industry business magnate
  • “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” —Jim Rohn, entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker
  • “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” —Arianna Huffington, co-founder of The Huffington Post and founder of Thrive Global
  • “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” —Eleanor Roosevelt, known as “First Lady of the World” for her human rights advocacy
  • “If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.” —Marissa Mayer, former president and CEO of Yahoo!
  • “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States
  • “Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” —Joshua J. Marine, author
  • “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” —Michael Jordan, former professional basketball player

These quotes about challenges have some pretty sound advice.

  • “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” —Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, political leader, and philanthropist
  • “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen Covey, educator, author, and businessman
  • “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” —Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the civil rights movement
  • “Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.” —Roger Crawford, public speaker, author, and certified tennis professional
  • “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” —Bernice Johnson Reagon, song composer, and social activist
  • “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened, or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.” —Paulo Coelho, lyricist and novelist
  • “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” —Ray Goforth, director of strategy and partnerships at Spredfast

Quotes about overcoming failure

There will be days when things don’t go as planned. You may feel defeated and let down. But that’s a part of life. It’s how you deal with the failures in life that makes you who you are. Here’s a list of our favorite quotes about overcoming failure that will motivate you to forget past mistakes and take a giant stride forward.

  • “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” —Herman Melville, novelist
  • “Do not be embarrassed by your failures; learn from them and start again.” —Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group
  • “It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you, because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.” —Mark Cuban, entrepreneur, owner of Landmark Theaters and Chairman of AXS TV
  • “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” —Jeff Bezos, founder, and CEO of Amazon
  • “The only thing worse than starting something and failing … is not starting something.” —Seth Godin, author, entrepreneur, and blogger
  • “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” —Drew Houston, founder and CEO of Dropbox
  • “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” —Og Mandino, author
  • “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” —George Addair, real-estate developer
  • “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” —Jack Canfield, author, motivational speaker, corporate trainer, and entrepreneur
  • “Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”  —Thomas Edison, entrepreneur and inventor
  • “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” —Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company
  • “Failure is success if we learn from it.” —Malcolm Forbes, entrepreneur and former publisher of Forbes magazine
  • “Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.” —J.K. Rowling, novelist
  • “I’ve missed more than 9,000 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

Funny quotes to cheer you up

Everyone has a bad day once in a while. These inspirational quotes are guaranteed to inspire you and bring a smile to your face.

  • “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily.” —Zig Ziglar, author
  • “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”—Lily Tomlin, actress
  • “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” —Will Rogers, performer
  • “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” —Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of the United States
  • “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” —Sydney Harris, journalist
  • “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs … one step at a time.” —Joe Girard, salesman
  • “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” —Thomas Edison, entrepreneur and inventor
  • “You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” —Sam Levenson, humorist
  • “Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway.“ —Robert Downey Jr., actor
  • “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” —Dale Carnegie, writer
  • “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” —Will Rogers, performer

Inspirational movie quotes

Movies have a certain memorable aspect about them. They have a unique way of teaching us lessons that stay in our memory. Whether it’s by making us smile, or by moving us to tears, movies have a magic about them. Here are some of the best inspirational quotes from movies.

  • ”Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. It’s how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.” —Rocky, Rocky Balboa
  • “Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something, not even me. All right? You dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.” —Chris Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness
  • “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” —Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of the Wall Street
  • “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” —Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • “Great men are not born great, they grow great.” —Vito Corleone, The Godfather
  • “Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.” —Sean Maguire, Good Will Hunting
  • “Why do we fall, sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.” —Alfred, Batman Begins
  • “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” —Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
  • “After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are.” —Shrek, Shrek the Third
  • “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” —Benjamin Button, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • “What we do in life echoes in eternity.” —Maximus, Gladiator
  • “Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.” —Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
  • “Every man dies, but not every man really lives.” —William Wallace, Braveheart
  • “Someone I once knew wrote that we walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail, or worse yet, afraid we may succeed.” —Forrester, Finding Forrester
  • “It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.” —Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • “There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.” —Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything
  • “The accident is your training. Life is a choice. You can choose to be a victim or anything else you’d like to be.” —Socrates, Peaceful Warrior
  • “In this lifetime, you don’t have to prove nothing to nobody, except yourself. And after what you’ve gone through, if you haven’t done that by now, it ain’t gonna never happen.” —Fortune, Rudy
  • It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.” —Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own
  • “Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.” —Rafiki, The Lion King
  • “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” —John Keating, Dead Poets Society
  • “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” —Eames, Inception
  • “Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever matter.” —John Nash, A Beautiful Mind

Quotes about work

No matter what day of the week it is, this list of inspirational quotes about work will help you get through the day.

  • “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” —Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
  • “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” —H. Jackson Brown Jr., US author
  • “The more I want to get something done ,the less I call it work.” —Richard Bach, writer
  • “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” —Muhammad Ali, professional boxer
  • “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” —Karen Lamb, author
  • “Someday is not a day of the week.” —Janet Dailey, author
  • “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, and poet
  • “Make each day your masterpiece.” —John Wooden, basketball player
  • “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” —Aristotle, father of Western philosophy

OK, that’s a lot of business quotes!

If you haven’t already, make sure to bookmark this page of business quotes now and return to it to create better habits and to help escape the rat race every time you need a hit of inspiration or motivation.

One other thing:

Did you notice some of the recurring themes throughout these business quotes?

Things like:

  • Belief in yourself
  • Focus on quality

So, which of these business quotes stood out most to you? Comment below!

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70 Amazing Business Quotes to Inspire the Entrepreneur in You

Running a business can be full of all sorts of highs and lows. The challenges can drive you to be better but also crush you with their severity. When you’re feeling down, you can always turn to sources of inspiration to buoy your spirits and remind you why you started the company in the first place. 

As you busy yourself learning how to grow your business , the following business quotes can help ignite your entrepreneurship mindset once again. And since many of these quotes come from successful entrepreneurs in their own right, think of them like snippets of valuable life lessons that can help you find success.

Inspirational Business Quotes to Reinvigorate Your Entrepreneurial Spirit

“The best revenge is massive success.” —Frank Sinatra

“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

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston Churchill

“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” —Guy Kawasaki

“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” —Tony Hsieh

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” —Walt Disney

“Employees want to feel inspired by their leaders…hire individuals who will lead by example.” —Jody Kohner

“In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.” —Steve Case

“Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.” —J.K. Rowling

“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.” —Tim O’Reilly

“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

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” —Seth Godin

“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” —Reid Hoffman

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

“The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.” —Sergey Brin

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” —Estee Lauder

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” —Jim Rohn

“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t—you’re right.” —Henry Ford

“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

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” —Napoleon Hill

“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

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen Covey

“The stars will never align, and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.” —Tim Ferriss

“If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” —Dhirubhai Ambani

“The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” —Rob Kalin

“I do not know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.” —Susan Butcher

“It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.” —Jason Cohen

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” —Albert Einstein

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” —Earl Nightingale

“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

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures; learn from them and start again.” —Richard Branson

“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

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” —Ray Goforth

“I failed my way to success.” —Thomas Edison

“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” —Dale Carnegie

“Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” —Babe Ruth

“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

“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” —Thomas Watson

“If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late.” —James Goldsmith

“Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give—with a few exceptions—generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.” —Ben Silbermann

“Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.” —Alan Turing

“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.” —Jeffrey Zeldman

“All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.” —Reid Hoffman

“Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” —Lisa Stone

“Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day.” —Gary Vaynerchuck

“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” —William Durant

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

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” —Thomas Jefferson

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

“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.” —Oprah Winfrey

“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

“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

“It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.” —Mark Cuban

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure—It is: Try to please everybody.” —Herbert Bayard Swope

“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” —John Maxwell

“Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” —Phil Knight

“Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.” —Mary Anne Radmacher

“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.” —Josh James

“Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” —Golda Meir

“Don’t worry about failure. You only have to be right once.” —Drew Houston

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” —Walt Disney

“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

“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.” —Zig Ziglar

“Always deliver more than expected.” —Larry Page

“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

“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” —Sam Levenson

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” —Thomas Watson

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” —Michael Jordan

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” —John D. Rockefeller

Time to Get to Work

If there’s one thing to learn from the above business quotes, it’s that to earn success you have to get to work. No amount of time spent thinking and dreaming will do much good if it’s not accompanied by hard work. Now that you feel inspired, you can start putting in the work to see your company become more successful.

To achieve success, you’ll also need to focus on continuous learning and improvement. Make a habit of reading industry publications, attending conferences and workshops, and seeking out guidance from others. When you invest in your own growth, you’ll become a more effective leader and position your company for long-term success. Remember, success doesn’t happen all at once. It’s a journey that requires constant effort and dedication.

And if you’re in need of a little extra help, here are some tips on writing a business plan .

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To mark Forbes’ centennial, we assembled 100 essays from the top entrepreneurs, visionaries and thinkers , each sharing an idea or lesson. They're meant to inspire and inform future entrepreneurs, the generation that will build and shape the next century. In their full form, the essays are swiftly told, and they’ve been distilled even further below: to a quote from each. 

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  • "We need to have a beginner's mind to think about what is happening." -- Marc Benioff, founder, Salesforce
  • "Companies will succeed and fail based on their ability to translate data...into insights and actions and products and services." -- Michael Dell, founder, Dell Technologies

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  • " It's just foolishness to not recognize the creativity that you can unlock in the corporate world." -- Bono, lead singer, U2; cofounder, One, (Red), Elevation Partners, Rise Fund 
  • " I'm very clear that everything I do is authentic, practiced and viable--and the end result is generally beautiful." -- Martha Stewart, American tastemaker  
  • " Health is your own; money belongs to others; power is temporary; and reputation is eternal." --  Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, founder, Thai Beverage
  •  " Investing in people is how we grow." -- Howard Schultz, executive chairman, Starbucks 

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  • " Finance can change the world and create millions of jobs by empowering people with ability." -- Michael Milken, financial alchemist, junk-bond prodigy (Drexel Burnham Lambert)
  • "When I was growing up in the Soviet Union, my father told me if I wanted to learn about business, I had to start looking beyond my horizon." -- Yuri Milner, founder, DST Global
  • "We need to level the playing field so that everyone, everywhere, has a shot at the American dream." -- Steve Case, cofounder, AOL
  • "We are absolutely a more profitable (and better) business because we have a mission beyond the sole pursuit of profits." -- Dan Gilbert, founder Quicken Loans
  • "I prefer to match words with deeds or let the facts speak for me." -- Leonardo Del Vecchio, founder, Luxottica

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  • "I think that the most important issue that will reshape our lives in the years ahead will be how man-made and artificial intelligence compete and work together." -- Ray Dalio, founder Bridgewater Associates
  • "A leader works for those they lead." -- Martine Rothblatt, founder, Sirius, United Therapeutics
  • "Sometimes the best way to make money is when most people say you are wrong and nuts." -- Carl Icahn, founder, Icahn Enterprises
  • "Curiosity has kept me young as I have gotten older." -- Les Wexner, visionary of The Limited (Victoria's Secret, Pink, Etc.)

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  • "Every business is a living document, an algorithm that needs to be improved." -- Billy Beane, Oakland A's executive vice president
  • "No matter how small a project you work on, and no matter what it is, put your heart and soul and sense of responsibility into it." -- Frank Gehry, world-shaping architect
  • "Early-stage entrepreneurs shouldn't forget about [due diligence]. It almost stopped everything for me." -- Sara Blakely, founder, Spanx
  • "We are better employees when we stop trying to be two people and bring our whole selves to work." -- Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook

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  • "When you start something today, you usually have to start it all over the world at the same time to be successful." -- Bernard Arnault, founder, LVMH
  • "Every industry today has to fight complacency, prepare to see the disruption coming and then be flexible enough to adapt swiftly." -- Lakshmi Mittal, chairman, CEO, Arcelormittal
  • "If I were starting out now, I would look at what the competition is like in various fields--and then consider some that aren't so popular." -- Julian Robertson, founder, Tiger Management
  • "We're the first species capable of self-annihilation, and it's extremely likely, given enough time. The question: Can we get ahead of it?" -- Elon Musk, cofounder, Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX
  • "No business school graduate would recommend gambling as a financial strategy, but sometimes it pays to be a little crazy early in your career." -- Fred Smith, founder, FedEx
  • "In maybe 20 or 30 years, we will use things like stem cells to change disease outcomes." -- Paul Allen, cofounder, Microsoft
  •  "Integrity means honesty and willingness to fulfill a promise, even at high cost." -- Morris Chang, founder, Taiwan Semiconductor
  • "The four most important words in business are 'What do you think?'" -- Bill Marriott, Jr., chairman, Marriott International

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  • "I'm the one who decides, but I like having lots of other people with whom I can discuss ideas." -- Giorgio Armani, founder, Armani
  • "Research how and why things are, and imagine how they might change," -- Philip Anschutz, entertainment mogul
  • "I have always chosen to ignore the conventional wisdom in favor of the ideas that interested me." -- Sean Parker, cofounder, Napster; former president, Facebook
  • "Sometimes, you have a fraction of a second to evaluate, when you first meet somebody, whether they might stab you or become your friend." --  Guy Laliberté, cofounder, Cirque du Soleil

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  • "If you're great in this business you're right six times out of ten." -- Peter Lynch, former portfolio manager, Magellan Fund
  • "Believe in big ideas." -- H. Ross Perot, Sr., data pioneer, original populist-businessman presidential candidate
  • " And Si [Newhouse], who is a billionaire, said, "No, I'm not going to write a check for $1 million. Let's pay them $100,000 a month." And when I asked him why, he said, "I don't want them to think that money comes that easily." 'I don't want them to think that money comes that easily.'" -- Larry Gagosian, the Picasso of art dealers
  • "Part of learning is done through reading, and the other part, which is likely more important, is talking with bright minds from different fields." -- Neil Shen, China's preeminent venture capitalist

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  • "Among my friends, I always learn the best from them." -- Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong's landlord, stock-picking savant
  • "If you're present and awake, you become this great thinker, this great worker. You become a fine-tuned machine." -- Russell Simmons, hip-hop pioneer; serial entrepreneur; yoga guru
  • "What allowed me to survive is that I was always honest and I truly believed in what I did." -- Diane von Furstenberg, fashion icon
  • "You have to enjoy coming in to work each day and going to battle for what you believe in, and for the people who you believe in." -- Donald Trump, owner, The Trump Organization; 45th President of the United States

Michael Eisner photographed for Forbes by Martin Schoeller.

  • "It was probably a $200 billion mistake. After that, we made a rule: No more meetings in the bathroom." -- Michael Eisner, former CEO, Disney
  • "I learned to never kick someone when they're down. Everyone makes mistakes, and some are real whoppers. But that makes them whopping opportunities, too." -- Jack Welch, former CEO, GE
  • "We ran our business differently and it worked--we paid our workers based on profitability, with bonuses based on aspirational targets." -- Patrice Motsepe, Africa's first black billionaire
  • "Your goal should never be starting a company. Focus on the change you want to make." -- Mark Zuckerberg, cofounder, Facebook

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  • "For the economic, social and political benefit of all, the Web must be recognized as a public good." -- Tim Berners-Lee, inventor, World Wide Web
  • "Keep your labor or your expense down and maximize the responsibility you extend to fewer people." -- Jerry Jones, owner, Dallas Cowboys
  • "I realized...that this was the land of opportunity and I could control my own fate." -- Shahid Khan, owner Flex-N-Gate
  • "It's difficult, when you've written [songs] for nothing, to pay $50 million to get them back." -- Paul McCartney, Beatle, copyright owner

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  • "Having clean, inexpensive, sufficient energy that's not controlled in some government's hands or some big business' hands helps solve a couple of the giant threats." -- Jeff Skoll, eBay billionaire
  • "Don't take 'no' when your gut tells you 'yes.'" -- James Patterson, record-setting author
  • "Prudence and agility, creativity and innovation will give you the edge to thrive in uncertain times." -- Li Ka-shing, chairman, CK Hutchison
  • "I found beauty in the absolute truth of machines in the classroom, I found purpose in the messiness of human interactions." -- Robert Smith, founder, Vista Equity Partners

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  • "Take an old concept...and just put a new spin on it, success will follow you like a shadow." -- Sheldon Adelson, casino mogul
  •  "When a door closes, if you look long enough and hard enough, if you're strong enough, you'll find a window that opens." -- Jack Bogle, founder, Vanguard
  • "Here's how I stay relevant: I read. I listen. I try to surround myself with smart people of all ages and backgrounds." -- John Doerr, venture capital Midas
  • "People assume they are most creative at a certain age. But if you look at truly great artists, they always get better." -- Jeff Koons, record-breaking artist

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  • "Be passionate in areas relevant to you, and be a voice that is respected and abreast of developments." -- Ratan Tata, India's industrialist
  • " I explicitly don't build or guard my reputation. I believe in telling it like it is and not worrying about it." -- Vinod Khosla, venture capitalist; cofounder, Sun Microsystems
  • "Don't worry about reputation but about character. You build character by practicing empathy, practicing moral courage, practicing determination." -- Jacqueline Novogratz, founder, Acumen Fund
  • "You need to be curious and never stop studying. You have to challenge yourself to think every day to understand and react to what is happening." -- Miuccia Prada, co-CEO, Prada

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  • "Being in business by yourself, you're responsible, one way or the other, and I had a lot of success that way." -- David Geffen, founder, Asylum Records, Geffen Records; cofounder, Dreamworks
  • "I stress the importance of having another life outside of business so that when it does come time to retire, the transition is easier." -- S andy Weill, Wall Street conglomerator
  • "It's so easy for someone with a great idea to share it with the world in an instant, the pace of innovation is accelerating—and that opens up more areas than ever for exploration." -- Bill Gates, global philanthropist; cofounder, Microsoft
  • "We sometimes fall flat on our face. But people don't mind people who try things and fail." -- Richard Branson, thrillionaire; founder, Virgin Group

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  • "Organizations resist innovation--and those that do inevitably fail--because people are more comfortable with what they know than with what they don't." -- Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York; cofounder Bloomberg LP
  • "You should find an area that interests you and just get on the highway, and it will lead you wherever you lead it." -- Barry Diller, founder, IAC
  • "You need to have a culture instead of a payroll, so that people watch themselves. What does this? Not money, but enhanced self-esteem." -- Steve Wynn, king of The Strip; founder, Mirage Resorts
  • "Making money is a happiness; making other people happy is a super-happiness." -- Muhammad Yunus, father of microfinance

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  • "My interests and my priorities are using my life experience and what I have been able to achieve to nurture the next generation." -- Terry Gou, founder, Foxconn
  • "Storytelling remains basic: It's just a campfire, the human connection that says you're not alone." -- Shonda Rhimes, televisionary
  • "Treat and pay your staff exactly the way you'd want to be treated if you were in their place." -- John Paul DeJoria, cofounder, John Paul Mitchell Systems, Patrón Tequila
  • "Today customers can tell whether product and service is good because there's so much transparency." -- Jeff Bezos, founder, Amazon

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  • "In philanthropy we don't worry about getting fired. There's a lot of work to be done." -- Eli Broad, cofounder, KB Home
  • "My outlook, energy, self-assurance and sense of social purpose were fashioned in the slightly mad meritocracy that is the newsroom." -- Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman News Corp.
  • "'The question is, how to be useful.'" -- Jim Collins, author,  Good to Great  and  Built to Last
  • "When hiring, if forced to choose between virtue and talent, choose virtue." -- Charles Koch, CEO, Koch Industries

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  • "In my daily life I try my best to practice what is known as Shin Zen Bi, which translates to Truth, Goodness, Beauty." -- Tadashi Yanai, founder Fast Retailing (Uniqlo)
  • "Growing up, my father hired a man named Jimmy Brown to work for our family, and he became one of my dearest friends. Jimmy taught me things my own father couldn't teach me, like how to sail." -- Ted Turner, founder, CNN
  • "If we are complacent and not open to change, we will soon lose our place. The best way to stay ahead is to learn from the younger generation." --  Dhanin Chearavanont, senior chairman, CP Group
  • "I like to imagine the world five years from now. Or imagine what I want the world to look like five years from now." -- Brian Chesky, cofounder Airbnb
  • "There were many times in my life when I would have liked to follow the herd. Instead, I have always followed my gut—and sometimes it's been really lonely." -- Sam Zell, vulture legend; REIT collector

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39 Inspiring Strategy Quotes From Iconic Business Leaders

July 9, 2020 | Sean Foo

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Strategy is a series of planned actions to achieve a long-term goal.

From having a vision to execution, strategy requires a single-minded focus to achieve the goals set originally!

From Jack Welch to Jeff Bezos, countless leaders have used strategy to succeed in their businesses.

To learn how they did it, here are 39 inspiring strategy quotes from these business leaders covering the various aspects of strategy!

Having Vision And Long-Term Planning

1. “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” – Jack Welch, Former CEO of General Electric

2. “A leader should be visionary and have more foresight than an employee.” – Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba

3. “I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.” – Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook

4. “When you expect things to happen – strangely enough – they do happen.” – J. P. Morgan

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Importance Of Specialization

5. “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” – Michael Porter, Harvard Business School Professor

6. “You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.” – Jack Welch, Former CEO of General Electric

7. “The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.” – Andrew Carnegie, Founder of Carnegie Corporation

8. “You can only do so many things great. Cast aside everything else.” – Tim Cook, CEO of Apple

9. “Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.” – Jim Collins, Author of Good To Great

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Focusing On The Consumer

10. “The best marketing strategy ever: Care.” – Gary Vaynerchuck, Chairman of VaynerX

11. “Forget about your competitors, just focus on your customers.” – Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba

12. “We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.” – Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon

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On Taking Risks In Strategy

13. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller, Founder of Standard Oil Company

14. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” – Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks

15. “In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. ” – Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook

16. “I like to take risks. That’s how I make money. But they are calculated risks.” – Kevin O’Leary, Founder of The Learning Company

17. “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” – Warren Buffet, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway

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Communicating With Your Organization For Success

18. “Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a ‘nervous system’, to coordinate its actions” – Bill Gates, Co-Founder of Microsoft

19. “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, Co-Founder of LinkedIn

20. “People want guidance, not rhetoric; they need to know what the plan of action is and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and the authority to act on it.” – Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks

21. “If we win the hearts and minds of employees, we’re going to have better business success.” – Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors

22. “The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution.” – Chuck Martin, Former Vice President IBM

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The Execution Of Strategy

23. “A strategy, even a great one,  doesn’t implement itself” – Jeroen De Flander, Author of The Art Of Performance

24. “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.” – Stephen Case, CEO of American Online

25. “Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.” – Michael Dell, CEO of Dell

26. “Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation, but from flawless execution.” – Naveen Jain, CEO of Infospace

27. “Vision without execution is hallucination.” – Thomas Edison, Co-Founder of General Electric

28. “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” – Herb Kelleher, Co-Founder of Southwest Airlines

29. “Good business planning is 9 parts execution for every 1 part strategy.” – Tim Berry – Founder of Palo Alto Software

30. “In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.” – Jack Welch, Former CEO of General Electric

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Having Flexibility

31. “You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt.” – Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO of Yelp

32. “Let’s execute along this strategy, but know that we’ll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.” – A.G. Lafley, Former CEO of P&G

33. “You must always be able to predict what’s next and then have the flexibility to evolve.” – Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce

34. “We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.” – Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon

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Persistence, Hard Work, And Strategy

35. “Patience is a key element of success.” – Bill Gates, Co-Founder of Microsoft

36. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” – Steve Jobs, Co-Founder of Apple

37. “Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow is worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” – Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba

38. “Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.” – Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald’s Corp

39. “I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” – John D. Rockefeller, Founder of Standard Oil Company

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39 Inspiring Quotes About Business Growth — and Tips for Success

45 Inspiring Quotes About Business Growth — and Tips for Success

Here are some favorite quotes about business growth to inspire you — plus expert advice to spark new ideas.

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Businesses face pressure to grow and evolve rapidly to stay competitive. But growth can be difficult, and even the most intrepid among us sometimes need an extra dose of inspiration .

We’ve rounded up 39 quotes about business growth — and advice for success — to inspire you and spark new ideas. Have a favorite quote that we missed? Click to tweet and add yours.

Quotes about business growth and change

“Becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.” – Michelle Obama, from Becoming

“Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” – Phil Knight, founder, Nike

“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud, neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis

“Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation.” – Clayton Christensen, economist and Harvard professor

“Every problem is a gift — without problems we would not grow.” – Tony Robbins, motivational speaker and writer

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. president

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. John F. Kennedy

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill, author

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” – Andy Rooney, broadcast journalist

“Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.” – William George Jordan, writer/editor

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer/statesman

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin, writer

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

“The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.” – Sergey Brin, co-founder, Google

“If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” – Dhirubhai Ambani, founder, Reliance Industries

“I do not know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.” – Susan Butcher, sled dog racer

I do not know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it. Susan Butcher

“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Thomas Watson, Sr., former chairman and CEO, IBM

“It’s very easy to be different but very difficult to be better.” – Jonathan Ive, former chief design officer, Apple

“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 in space.” – Chris Hadfield, astronaut

“Happy employees lead to happy customers, which leads to more profits.” – Vaughn Aust, COO, Gemini

Happy employees lead to happy customers, which leads to more profits. Vaughn Aust

“Employees want to feel inspired by their leaders…hire individuals who will lead by example.” – Jody Kohner, EVP global enablement, Salesforce

“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” – William Durant, co-founder, General Motors

“Many companies get trapped by the paradox of hitting numbers ‘now’ versus improving sales for future quarters or years ahead.” – Tiffani Bova , growth and innovation evangelist, Salesforce

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu, Chinese Taoist philosopher

Quotes about business transformation

“[Businesses] rarely come up for air to re-evaluate how they are selling. This means that current sales practices, process, and organizational structure may in fact be hindering their growth more than any external factor they believe they are facing.” – Tiffani Bova, growth and innovation evangelist, Salesforce

“Consumers now expect to be able to get things, talk to someone, and do what they want at any time. That’s led to a divide. Some companies and products provide such a perfect, seamless experience that it has raised the bar. In fact, it’s so easy and seamless that we kind of forget to be impressed. But what they’re doing is making the ones that don’t deliver that kind of great experience all the more obvious.” — Susan Weinschenk, chief behavioral scientist and CEO, The Team W

“Customer experience professionals love to think about their customer journey maps, but these can be very rigid. How many consumers follow the same exact path to get to their outcome? Very few. I believe consumer experiences need to be far more dynamic than they are today — not just personalized, which we’ve been talking about for a few years. After all, companies can leverage data about customers in the moment — what they did in the last 24 minutes or hours, not in the last 24 days.” — Tom Puthiyamadam, transformation consulting leader, PwC [ read the full interview ]

“We’ve been talking about the importance of ‘ customer-centricity ’ for some time. But until now retailers have lacked both the technology and the mandate to connect marketing, sales, service, and commerce systems to enable a 360-degree view of the customer. Now that relevant and personalized engagement has emerged as a key differentiator, retailers will finally make the investments to deliver on the promise of putting the customer at the center of everything they do.” — Rob Garf, vice president and general manager, retail, Salesforce

“Companies that invest more in digital transformation actually outperform their peers over time. These companies are more prepared for disruption, better able to monetize new digital channels, and better able to build a bigger user base. What’s more, this phenomenon exists regardless of industry.” — Geoff Cubitt, CEO and founder, Cardinal Griffin, LLC

Companies that invest more in digital transformation actually outperform their peers over time. Geoff Cubitt

“Data itself is not enough to create personalized experiences. Artificial intelligence is required to turn a comprehensive data trove into insights that can anticipate customers’ needs and act as their digital assistant. Much like his or her pre-industrial counterpart, a B2I (business-to-individual) virtual tailor, for example, would know each individual’s measurements and tastes in fabrics, styles, and other variables, and could thus make highly personalized recommendations.” — Peter Schwartz, senior vice president, strategic planning, Salesforce [ read the full article ]

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Quotes about the artificial intelligence impact on business growth.

“Accenture forecasts that AI could double the economic growth rates of 12 major countries by 2035. These gains will come from computers doing what they have always been good at — freeing us to make better use of our time. For instance, AI makes it possible to automate routine tasks such as responding to simple customer questions. It can also be used to spot changes in customer preferences, identify visual problems in manufacturing, further automate agriculture, identify fraud, and better inform business decision-making.” — Richard Socher, CEO, You.com [ read the full article ]

“AI is about more than replacing each worker with a robot. It will involve the disruption and reshaping of whole industries. Business models will evolve to be quite transparent. In a world of AI, consumers will have high access to information, perhaps using their digital assistant to find the best price or analyze which product has received the best reviews. It will no longer be possible to use information asymmetry to charge people a disproportionate amount.” — Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, chairman and CEO, Sinovation Ventures 

“Imagine a customer walking up to a supermarket shelf and holding his or her smartphone up against different bags of potato chips. Using image processing, language processing, and analytics, AI-enabled systems can help that customer check which brand is best for their low-sodium diet, or whatever their taste profile might be.” — Glen Hartman, president and co-founder, Accenture Interactive [ read the full interview ]

“You don’t need to know how the technology of a microwave works to use it — it is simply a tool. We’re now entering the same phase with AI, thanks to the influx of no-code, point-and-click tools. AI will become a widely used utility by everyone, regardless of technical background. As a result, most of the AI applications in the coming years will be built by people with little or no AI training.” — Vitaly Gordon, co-founder and CEO, Faros AI 

AI will become a widely used utility by everyone, regardless of technical background. Vitaly Gordon 

“Companies use technologies such as deep learning to help them feed their computer networks vast quantities of information so they recognize patterns more quickly. But for all their enormous potential, current success is based on fitting to patterns of historical training data. There’s still much work to do to train models how to reason. They can only be trained to find patterns in historical data. The problem is this training data isn’t neutral — it can easily reflect the biases of the people who put it together. It can encode trends and patterns that reflect and perpetuate prejudice and harmful stereotypes.” — Timnit Gebru, founder and executive director, The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), [ read the full interview ]

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Quotes about growing workplace trends.

“Workers will need different skills to thrive in the workplace of the future. We’ll see a growing demand for advanced technological skills such as programming. Social, emotional, and higher cognitive skills — such as creativity, critical thinking, and complex information processing — will also be in demand. Growing occupations, meanwhile, will include those with difficult-to-automate activities, such as managers and doctors, as well as care workers and teachers. Training and retraining mid-career workers and new generations for the coming challenges will be another imperative.” — James Manyika, senior vice president, Google-Alphabet [ read the full interview ]

“In 1950, only 55% of the working-age population in the U.S. was employed. By 2015, that percentage had risen to 60% — representing a net increase of about 100 million jobs — after many potentially job-killing technologies had been introduced. These included shipping cranes, ATMs, and personal computer spreadsheets. The same could well be true of [AI], especially if we put into place the innovations in education that could help people adapt.” — Peter Schwartz, senior vice president, strategic planning, Salesforce [ read the full article ]

“AI is about enabling machines to augment humans — in other words, to complement human skills — rather than merely replace them. In most cases, AI’s skills are different to a human’s, so we are moving towards a symbiosis of the two.” — Robin Bordoli, partner, Authentic Ventures

“Beyond doing the right thing for their workers, companies have another reason to lean into workforce development initiatives: their own competitiveness. As demand for skills for the intelligent era heat up, so too will a war for talent.” — Sarah Franklin, CMO, Salesforce

“The shift to lifelong learning is absolutely essential. As the pace of technological change quickens, we need to be sure that employees are keeping up with the right skills to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution . That applies to both technical and soft skills. There will be changes in both areas.” — Zvika Krieger, technology advisor and former director of responsible innovation at Facebook 

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100 Business Quotes To Inspire Success In Your Workplace

By Maxime Lagacé

Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page .

Here are 100 of the best business quotes. Hope you’ll find the inspiration and motivation you need to take your workplace to the next level. Enjoy!

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Quality is the best business plan. John Lasseter (Disney/Pixar)

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Don’t try to beat the competitors at their own game. You have to invent a new game — and master it. Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn)

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My rules of business: Build shit people want, never give up , avoid assholes, question assumptions, learn new ideas and always reward ambition. Anthony Pompliano

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Surprise and delight your customers. There is nothing like that in business. If you delight your customers, you’re a long way home. Warren Buffett

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Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like. Brian Chesky (AirBnb)

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We didn’t set out to build a product. We set out to solve a problem. Naval Ravikant

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If you create it for yourself, it’s art. If you create it for others, it’s business. Naval Ravikant

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A company becomes the people it hires, not the plan it makes. Sam Altman

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Almost everyone underestimates the value of fast movers, in almost every context. Work with them. Be one yourself. Sam Altman

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The companies that succeed are mistake fixing machines. Brian Norgard

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When you combine extreme focus and great teams, magic happens. Sam Altman

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There is no skill called “business.” Avoid business magazines and business classes. Naval Ravikant

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To succeed in business you must learn the art of saying no. Barbara Corcoran

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If you are here for rewards, fame and money, you will ultimately fail. If you are for love, meaning and people, you will ultimately win. Maxime Lagacé

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I could either watch it happen or be a part of it. Elon Musk
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Escape competition through authenticity. Naval Ravikant
If you can’t see yourself working with someone for life, don’t work with them for a day. Naval Ravikant
It is much more important to work on the right thing than it is to work many hours. Most people waste most of their time on stuff that doesn’t matter. Sam Altman
Once you have figured out what to do, be unstoppable about getting your small handful of priorities accomplished quickly. I have yet to meet a slow-moving person who is very successful. Sam Altman
When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws. Derek Sivers
Reasons your product will fail: Too complex. Can’t easily be described. Didn’t iterate fast enough. Bland. Failed to launch into a community. Doesn’t save time/money. Poor design. Does too much. Didn’t take a feature risk. Listened to wrong the customers. Brian Norgard
In your actions, don’t procrastinate . In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business. Marcus Aurelius

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We don’t do business with companies. We do business with people. Simon Sinek
We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want. Eric Ries
On the formula to build a billion-dollar Internet company: Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time… identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps. Ev Williams (Twitter, Blogger, Medium)
Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. Zig Ziglar
Today’s “best practices” lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried. Peter Thiel ( Zero to One , Amazon book)
The person in the meeting that challenges the status quo is often the most valuable person in the room. Shane Parrish
To the extent possible, ruthlessly shave away the unnecessary tasks, priorities, meetings, and BS. Put all your effort into the projects that really matter. Shane Parrish
The more honest and unique a person is, the more that person attracts people. It’s the same for businesses. Maxime Lagacé

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In a world where almost no one takes a truly long-term view, the market richly rewards those who do. Sam Altman
Choose your colleagues carefully; you will end up caring what they care about. Sam Altman
You want to be world class at some narrow and important intersection, not decently good at a lot of things. Sam Altman
The essential principle of business – of occupation in the world – is this: figure out some way in which you get paid for playing. Alan Watts
You can worry about the competition…or you can focus on what’s ahead of you and drive fast. Jack Dorsey

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If you think it’s expensive to hire a talented employee, wait till you hire an untalented one. Shane Parrish
There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization’s overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow. Jack Welch
The quickest way to ruin the productivity of a small company is to have it adopt the practices of a large company. David Heinemeir Hansson (DHH, Ruby on Rails, Basecamp)
What would you do if you weren’t afraid? Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers. Seth Godin
There is no sport as competitive as business. It’s 24 by 7 by 365 by forever. Mark Cuban
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The most famous business quotes (bill gates, warren buffett, jeff bezos, etc.).

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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Henry Ford
I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire. Warren Buffett
We don’t do unnecessary things at Berkshire. And there are many things at big companies that are unnecessary. Warren Buffett
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. Warren Buffett
When you work on something, if you fall in love with it, that’s a good sign. If you do, others will. Elon Musk
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
If you are willing to work hard and ask lots of questions, you can learn business pretty fast. Steve Jobs
My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people. Steve Jobs
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates (Microsoft)

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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. Michael Jordan
All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities. Mahatma Gandhi
Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day. Gary Vaynerchuk
I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man. Jay Z
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 (Walmart)
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. Jim Rohn
Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room. Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies. Walt Disney

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Product is king. Jack Butcher
Serve, don’t lead. Kobe Bryant
To dominate, iterate. Jack Butcher
Screw it. Let’s do it. Richard Branson (Virgin)
Think big. Start small. Seth Godin
Be honest, not flawless. Maxime Lagacé
Done is better than perfect. Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)

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Creating space to think is a competitive advantage. Greg McKeown
90% of strategy is execution. 90% of execution is people. Thibaut
Luck is not a business model. Anthony Bourdain
If you want to build a big business, start a small business. Sahil Lavingia ( Source )
Easy paths, crowded destinations. Scott Belsky
Big results require big ambitions. Heraclitus
Always deliver more than expected. Larry Page (Google)
Build for the obsessed, not the casual. Brian Norgard

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Focus on what matters. Cut all the BS. Sam Altman ( Source )
Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger. Tony Hsieh (Zappos)
If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try. Seth Godin
Prioritizing is the most important thing in business. Noah Kagan
It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. Scott Belsky
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. Mark Twain
Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once. Drew Houston (Dropbox)

Inspirational Business Quotes

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Progress is almost never linear. Ups and downs and bursts. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I’m after a legacy, not the most followers. Gary Vaynerchuk
The best way to get the attention and respect of exceptional people is to do exceptional work. James Clear
If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. Nora Roberts
Sketch. Prototype. Build. Action over theory. Brian Norgard
The faster the feedback, the faster you learn. The faster you learn, the more you can adapt and improve. Maxime Lagacé

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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity. Ben Horowitz ( The Hard Thing About Hard Things , Amazon book)
Business is just an elaborate excuse to make friends with interesting people. Andrew Wilkinson
You will become impressive the day to stop trying. You will become successful the day you stop being busy. Maxime Lagacé
The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe. Simon Sinek
Everyone knows that you need a great team, great execution, and a great idea. Less obvious is that you have to have great endurance. Sam Altman
It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because… All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are. Mark Cuban

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You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety. Abraham Maslow
Only inflexibility you need and can afford to have running a business is your values. Kunal Shah
Rebelliousness is an economic tool in the same category as network effects and economies of scale. Nivi Babak
Every moment in business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. Peter Thiel (Zero to One)
The fastest way to become exceptional is to work with exceptional people. If you want to be a great engineer, work at a company with great engineers. Want to start a company? Work for an early-stage startup with extraordinary founders. Watch them work, and learn by osmosis. Sahil Lavingia
Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you. Tony Hsieh (Zappos)
You just have to keep driving down the road. It’s going to bend and curve and you’ll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going. Ellen DeGeneres
There is a formula for success in business, and it goes like this: You set out to find the very best talent in the marketplace, and then give them a compelling and inspirational vision of what you want them to achieve for you and the company. Then you empower them to achieve those goals using their own skills and talents in any way they choose. If, at the same time, you demonstrate how enormously you value them, not just through compensation, but also verbally, every single day, and if you enable that talent to share in the profit that they help create for you, you’ll be successful. It’s so simple, and virtually nobody does it, because it requires a high-trust working environment, and most business environments are low-trust. In order to own the future of your business, you have to design it around trust . Cindy Gallop

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150+ famous business quotes that provide valuable insights and inspiration from successful entrepreneurs and business leaders.

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As entrepreneurs, leaders, and professionals, we often look to successful business figures for inspiration and guidance. Business quotes from renowned entrepreneurs, CEOs, and thought leaders can offer valuable insights, motivation, and wisdom to navigate the challenges and opportunities of the business world.

In this blog post, we have compiled a curated list of 50 famous business quotes that will inspire, challenge, and uplift you in your entrepreneurial journey. From iconic leaders like Steve Jobs and Warren Buffet to influential business authors like Peter Drucker and Simon Sinek, these quotes will provide you with powerful insights and perspectives on entrepreneurship, leadership, success, and more.

So, let's dive in and get inspired by these famous business quotes!

Most famous business quotes

  • "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
  • "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work." - Steve Jobs
  • "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain
  • "The best revenge is massive success." - Frank Sinatra
  • "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
  • "The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible." - Joel Brown
  • "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." - Colin R. Davis
  • "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb
  • "The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall." - Vince Lombardi
  • "Success is not about the destination, it's about the journey." - Zig Ziglar
  • "The best investment you can make is in yourself." - Warren Buffet
  • "Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own interests for the greater good of the team." - John Wooden
  • "The only thing that is constant is change." - Heraclitus
  • "Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." - David Frost
  • "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
  • "The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are." - John C. Maxwell
  • "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." - Ralph Nader
  • "The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
  • "The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it." - Unknown
  • "The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." - Mark Zuckerberg
  • "In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate." - Chester Karrass
  • "The function of leadership is to inspire and guide others to achieve their best potential." - Simon Sinek
  • "The best leaders are those most interested in the success of their team, not just their own success." - John Wooden
  • "The best businesses are those that create value, solve problems, and meet customer needs." - Peter Drucker
  • "The best time to plant a seed was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Anonymous
  • "The most important investment you can make is in yourself, your skills, and your knowledge." - Warren Buffet
  • "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Colin Powell
  • "Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming." - Richard Branson

Famous inspiring quotes about business

  • “Becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.” – Michelle Obama, from Becoming
  • “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” – Phil Knight, founder, Nike
  • “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud, neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis
  • “Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation.” – Clayton Christensen, economist and Harvard professor
  • “Every problem is a gift — without problems we would not grow.” – Tony Robbins, motivational speaker and writer
  • “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. president
  • “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill, author
  • “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” – Andy Rooney, broadcast journalist
  • “Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.” – William George Jordan, writer/editor
  • “The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer/statesman
  • “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin, writer
  • “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot, author
  • “The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.” – Sergey Brin, co-founder, Google
  • “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” – Tony Gaskins
  • “I do not know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.” – Susan Butcher, sled dog racer

Small business quotes for new owners

  • "There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team." — Jason Fried
  • "A big business starts small." — Richard Branson
  • "It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen." — Scott Belsky
  • "Opportunities don't happen. You create them." — Chris Grosser
  • "If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business." — B.C. Forbes
  • "To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big." — Aristotle Onassis
  • "You don't build a business, you build the people, then people build the business." — Zig Ziglar
  • "You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea." — Larry Page
  • "Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you." — Tony Hsieh
  • "The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world." — Marc Benioff
  • "Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field." — Denis Waitley
  • "My best advice to entrepreneurs is this: forget about making mistakes, just do it." — Ajaero Tony Martins
  • "The biggest mistake a small business can make is to think like a small business." — Aruna Bhayana
  • "The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do." — Bill Phillips
  • "You have to work on the business first before it works for you." — Idowu Koyenikan
  • "The most successful entrepreneurs I know are optimistic. It's part of the job description." — Caterina Fake
  • "Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." — Peter F. Drucker
  • "Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it." — Seth Godin
  • "Never give up. Today is hard and tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine." — Jack Ma
  • "If you can dream it, you can do it." — Walt Disney
  • "You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing." — Dale Carnegie
  • "Never give up. Great things take time." — Unknown
  • "A small business is an amazing way to serve and leave an impact on the world you live in." — Nicole Snow
  • "Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it's about trading. Buying and selling." — Anita Roddick
  • "Don't worry about being successful, but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow." — Oprah Winfrey
  • "Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationship." — Henry Ross Perot
  • "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
  • "The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time." — Joe Girard
  • "Plan for what is difficult while it is easy. Do what is great while it is small." — Sun Tzu

Motivational quotes for business

  • "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
  • "If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will." — Bob Hooey
  • "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." — Bill Gates
  • "Listening to your customers deeply, or you will have none." — Bryan Clayton
  • "The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just best but legendary." — Sam Walton
  • "Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves." — Steve Jobs
  • "Great customer service is a critical competitive advantage for a business." — Steve Benson
  • "Make the customer the hero of your story." — Ann Handley
  • "What would you do if you weren't afraid?" — Sheryl Sandberg
  • "Make a customer, not a sale." — Katherine Barchetti
  • "Don't deliver a product, deliver an experience." — Unknown
  • "The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. — Michael Jordan
  • "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." — Abraham Lincoln
  • "I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation." — Bobby Knight
  • "Luck is what you have leftover after you give 100%." — Langston Coleman
  • "The secret of success in any field is redefining what success means to you." — RuPaul
  • "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follow." — Steve Jobs
  • The secret of getting ahead is getting started." — Mark Twain
  • "Never ever give up! Constant effort is the key to success." — Xavier Davis
  • "Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." — C.S. Lewis
  • "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." — Walt Disney

Famous business quotes about growth

  • "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • "Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together." - James Cash Penney
  • "The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence itself, but to act with yesterday's logic." - Peter Drucker
  • "If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." - Jim Rohn
  • "The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
  • "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
  • "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy
  • "The key to success is to start before you are ready." - Marie Forleo
  • "The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." - Mark Zuckerberg
  • "In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
  • "If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs." - Dhirubhai Ambani
  • "The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it." - Jordan Belfort
  • "The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible." - Rich DeVos
  • "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller
  • "The harder I work, the luckier I get." - Samuel Goldwyn
  • "If you're not making mistakes, then you're not making progress." - Unknown
  • "In business, the only constant is change. Embrace it, adapt to it, and grow with it." - Unknown
  • "The growth of a business is not just about increasing profits, but also about expanding opportunities and creating value." - Unknown
  • "Growth requires stepping out of your comfort zone and taking calculated risks." - Unknown
  • "The road to success is always under construction." - Lily Tomlin
  • "The only way to achieve sustainable growth is through continuous improvement and innovation." - Unknown
  • "If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Alvin Toffler
  • "The greatest risk in business is not taking risks at all." - Unknown
  • "Success is not measured by the number of times you fall, but by the number of times you get up." - Unknown
  • "The best investment you can make is in yourself and your personal growth." - Unknown
  • "The more you learn, the more you earn." - Warren Buffett
  • "The path to success is often paved with challenges, setbacks, and failures. Embrace them as opportunities to learn and grow." - Unknown
  • "Invest in your people, and they will invest in your business." - Unknown
  • "It's not about finding the right opportunity, it's about creating the right opportunity." - Unknown
  • "The only thing that stands between you and your goals is the story you keep telling yourself." - Unknown
  • "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It's the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
  • "The best marketing doesn't feel like marketing." - Tom Fishburne
  • "Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room." - Jeff Bezos
  • "Marketing is not about selling, it's about building relationships." - Seth Godin
  • "The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well that the product or service sells itself." - Peter Drucker
  • "The best marketing strategy ever: Care." - Gary Vaynerchuk
  • "Good marketing makes the company look smart. Great marketing makes the customer feel smart." - Joe Chernov
  • "In marketing, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci
  • "Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell." - Seth Godin
  • "The more you engage with customers, the clearer things become and the easier it is to determine what you should be doing." - John Russell
  • "Marketing is telling the world you're a rock star. Content marketing is showing the world you are one." - Robert Rose
  • "Marketing is not an event, it's a process. It's not about selling, it's about building relationships." - Unknown
  • "Marketing is not a one-time thing, it's an ongoing effort to connect, engage, and build trust with your audience." - Unknown
  • "Marketing is about creating value, not just selling products or services." - Unknown
  • "The best marketing doesn't feel like marketing, it feels like a natural conversation." - Unknown
  • "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
  • "The only thing that's standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it." - Jordan Belfort
  • "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs
  • "Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life." - Steve Jobs

Famous business quotes can be a powerful source of inspiration and motivation for entrepreneurs, leaders, and professionals alike. They offer timeless wisdom, insights, and perspectives from successful business figures who have achieved remarkable success in their respective fields.

From encouraging risk-taking and perseverance to emphasizing the importance of leadership, innovation, and continuous learning, these quotes can provide valuable guidance for navigating the ever-changing landscape of the business world.

Whether you are starting a new business, leading a team, or striving for personal and professional growth, take inspiration from these famous business quotes and apply them in your journey towards success. As with any advice, it's important to reflect on how these quotes resonate with your own values and goals, and use them to guide your unique path to achieving your business aspirations.

We hope you found this collection of famous business quotes insightful and motivating. Remember, the road to success may be challenging, but with the right mindset, determination, and inspiration from these famous quotes, you can overcome any obstacle and achieve greatness in your business endeavors.

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Business quotes are a great way to empower your team to be their very best. We’ve gathered 39 inspiring quotes from successful entrepreneurs.

Everyone needs a little inspiration now and then, especially in a professional setting. Your job as a leader is to motivate your team members through empowering actions and statements. 

From Steve Jobs to Arianna Huffington, take a look at these 39 inspirational quotes to share with your teammates. 

Quotes to help you start a business

Starting a business is a difficult endeavor—and one that doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time and devotion to turn your business into what you've always dreamed it would be. These quotes will give you the drive to build something that you’ll be proud of.

1. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”

— Peter Drucker, Management consultant and educator

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2. “A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.”

— Jeff Bezos, Founder and executive chairman of Amazon

3. “Risk-taking is the cornerstone of empires.”

— Estée Lauder, Businesswoman and co-founder of Estée Lauder 

4. “In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.”

— Seth Godin, Author and former business executive

5. “Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.”

— Simon Mainwaring, Global keynote speaker, CEO of We First, and best-selling author

6. “I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.”

— Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and co-founder of Facebook

7. “In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.”

— Ken Blanchard, Author and motivational speaker

8. “Feeling confident—or pretending that you feel confident—is necessary to reach for opportunities. It's a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they're seized.”

— Sheryl Sandberg, Business executive and COO of Facebook

Quotes to improve self development

Part of growing your skills is about developing your emotional intelligence in order to be the best leader you can be. The quotes below will keep you mindful of your habits and help you become the ideal version of yourself.

9. “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, Businesswoman and founder of Spanx

10. “The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

— Stephen Covey, Educator and author

11. “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”

— Oprah Winfrey, Talk show host and media magnate

12. “I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.”

— Barbara Corcoran, Businesswoman and Shark on ABC’s reality series

13. “Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.”

— Guy Kawasaki, Marketing leader and Silicon Valley venture capitalist

14. “If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.”

— Chris Hadfield, Former Canadian Space Agency astronaut

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15. “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” 

— Steve Jobs, Business magnate and co-founder of Apple

16. “Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, Inspirational speaker and lawyer 

17. “Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.”

— Phil Jackson, Former professional basketball player and coach

18. “Learning from each mistake requires self-awareness and humility, but it can be one of the biggest keys to reaching your full potential.”

— Amy Morin, Psychotherapist and mental strength trainer

19. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

— Bill Gates, Business magnate and co-founder of Microsoft

20. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

— Henry Ford, Industrialist and founder of the Ford Motor Company

21. “You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you’re successful, sometimes you’re not, but it’s the average that counts.”

— Satya Nadella, Business executive and CEO of Microsoft

22. “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt, Political figure and former First Lady

Quotes to help you achieve success

Success isn’t obtained overnight. It takes hard work and dedication to achieve your dreams. However, success comes in many forms. Whether it be your business, your work, your family, or something completely different, these quotes will guide you through finding success.

23. “Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.”

— Dustin Moskovitz, Co-founder and CEO of Asana

24. “Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

— Drew Houston, Entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox

25. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

— Helen Keller, Author and disability rights advocate

26. “We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.”

— Arianna Huffington, Businesswoman and CEO of Thrive Global

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27. “You don’t achieve success, you attract success.”

— Farshad Asl, Entrepreneur and CEO of Top Leaders

28. “Be brutally honest about the short term, and optimistic and confident about the long term.”

— Reed Hastings, Businessman and co-CEO of Netflix

29. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

— Maya Angelou, Poet and civil rights activist

30. “I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.”

— Madeleine Albright, Politician and former Secretary of State of the United States 

31. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

— Abraham Lincoln, Politician and 16th president of the United States

32. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”

— Albert Einstein, Physicist known for developing the theory of relativity

33. “Success is a decision. Dare to choose it.”

— Jill Konrath, Sales strategist and author of the book Selling to Big Companies

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Quotes about building—and achieving—dreams

Everyone has a dream that they’ve always wanted to achieve. For some, those dreams may be harder to accomplish. With a little bit of courage, dedication, and inspirational quotes, you can ensure those dreams are within reach.

34. “First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.”

— Walt Disney, Entrepreneur and co-founder of The Walt Disney Company

35. “If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”

— Thomas Edison, Inventor and businessman

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36. “You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.”

— Larry Page, Entrepreneur and co-founder of Google

37. “A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.”

— Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

38. “They tell you: Follow your dreams... Dream and dream big. I think that's crap. I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, powerful, engaged people? Are busy doing.”

— Shonda Rhimes, Television producer and screenwriter

39. “Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.”

— Scott Belsky, Entrepreneur and co-creator of Behance

Tips to empower your team

Along with sharing inspiring business quotes to motivate your teammates, there are a few other ways you can take it to the next level. From encouraging intrinsic motivation using team bonding activities to leading by example, you have the capability to empower your team to do great work.

Here are three ways to get started:

Encourage intrinsic motivation : Intrinsic motivation refers to behavior driven by internal rewards. Examples of this include participating in a team building game because you want to, not because you have to, and learning new skills because you like to be challenged. By encouraging intrinsic motivation in the workplace, you can empower your team to be their very best.

Lead by serving your team: Servant leadership is an approach that focuses on serving others rather than managing for results. This helps create an environment where team members can thrive. Characteristics that you can embody include strong listening skills, empathy, self-awareness, and the desire to create a healthy work environment—all of which will help your team feel heard and empowered.

Establish group norms: Group norms are the spoken or unspoken rules that guide how team members interact, collaborate, and work. By identifying group norms, you can build and empower your team in order to take them to the next level. Some examples include creating meeting agendas, tracking to-dos, and communicating in shared tools—all of which can help build clarity and successful group norms.

These three ways to empower your team can have a lasting impact on the success and overall happiness of each of your team members. Plus, they can help foster a collaborative, productive, and efficient workplace.

Inspire your team with these business quotes

These inspirational business quotes can be the motivating factor to push your team members out of their comfort zones and explore new possibilities within your organization. While they may not be the only way to foster team empowerment, sharing motivational quotes can positively impact your teammates. 

Not only that, but the right business quotes can shape your own work ethic and leadership style . From offering business insight to sharing helpful resources, quotes from successful entrepreneurs could just be the push you need. 

If you’re looking for additional ways to support your team through collaboration, check out 45 team building games to improve communication. Or, try collaboration software to manage your work more productively. 

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Inspiring Business Planning Quotes

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With the world of business constantly evolving, it is important to keep up with the latest trends and insights. Business planning quotes can provide insight into the thoughts of successful entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and business professionals.

Inspiring Business Planning Quotes

They can serve as a valuable source of motivation and inspiration for those looking to make strides in their own businesses. From words of wisdom about strategic planning to advice on teamwork and collaboration, these quotes offer guidance that can help any business owner get ahead.

Inspirational Business Planning Quotes

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.” – Steve Jobs

This quote speaks to the importance of courage and boldness in order to make a real difference in business.

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.” -Elon Mask

This speaks directly to how risk-taking is essential when it comes to making headway in any endeavor – especially business!

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

This quote highlights how important it is to have a plan in place before attempting anything ambitious. A plan will provide structure and direction, ensuring that all steps necessary for success are taken into account prior to execution.

“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin

This quote is true in many aspects of life. When we fail to plan, we risk not achieving our goals and not reaching our full potential. Planning helps us prioritize tasks, set realistic goals and deadlines, and stay organized.

Without planning, it’s easy to become overwhelmed with too many tasks or get stuck in a cycle of procrastination. Taking the time to plan ahead can help us stay focused and increase our chances of success.

“Good business plans come from good personal plans. If you don’t know where you’re going in life, how do you expect your business to get there?” – Mark Cuban

Creating a vision board or writing down your aspirations is also beneficial for understanding what kind of business plan would be best suited for achieving them. Knowing your ambitions helps guide you when making difficult decisions; if something doesn’t align with the overall goal, then it can easily be discarded as part of the process of reaching success.

“Good plans shape good decisions. That’s why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.” – Lester R. Bittel

Good plans are essential components to achieving success. Planning can help us make the right decisions that will lead us closer to our goals, no matter how big or small they may be.

“Opportunities don’t happen; you create them.” – Chris Grosser

This quote emphasizes the importance of taking initiative and creating opportunities for yourself. It’s easy to wait around and hope that something will come your way but it’s much more effective to take control of your own destiny and make things happen. Taking risks, being creative, and setting goals can all help you create opportunities in your life.

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”- Jim Rohn

Successful people understand that in order to achieve their goals, they must be willing to take risks and put in the hard work. They also understand that it takes dedication and determination to achieve success. They are not afraid of failure, but instead, use it as motivation to keep pushing forward.

“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it” – Stephen Covey

Stephen Covey’s quote reminds us that time is a valuable resource and should be used wisely. We should focus on investing our time in activities that are meaningful and beneficial to us in the long run, rather than simply wasting them on trivial matters. This will help us make the most of our days and create a more productive lifestyle.

“Vision without execution is hallucination” – Thomas Edison

It’s essential that a plan doesn’t remain on paper but actually gets put into practice if you want results from it.

“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” – Warren Buffett

This highlights the fact that without proper preparation and knowledge, an individual or organization might take risks that lead to undesirable outcomes. It’s important to have a comprehensive understanding of one’s business environment before making any decisions.

“If you don’t drive your business you will be driven out of business.” – Michael Dell

Having a clear vision and plan for your business is essential to its success. Without it, you won’t be able to effectively respond to changes in the market or manage the day-to-day operations of your business. Ultimately, not having control over your business can lead to its downfall.

Michael Dell’s quote is a powerful reminder of the importance of taking an active role in running a business. Every entrepreneur needs to stay on top of their operations, constantly striving for improvement and growth. Taking an active role in driving the business forward is essential for success, as it ensures that you are ahead of the competition and leading the way.

“Successful people plan their work and work their plan.” – Napoleon Hill

This quote is a reminder that when it comes to achieving success in business, preparation is key. Planning ahead can help you avoid costly mistakes down the road, so take time to outline your path before setting off on your journey.

“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Wishing or hoping your business dreams will come true isn’t enough; it takes effort and hard work to create a successful business plan and bring those wishes to life. Put in the effort now so you can reap the rewards later!

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” – Scott Belsky

This quote from the founder of Behance emphasizes the importance of putting your ideas into motion once you have established a plan for your business. Taking action is essential for achieving success in any venture.

“Good businesses are built on relationships.” – Simon Sinek

Relationships are key when it comes to developing a successful business plan as they can open doors to new opportunities, provide valuable advice, and create long-lasting connections.

It is clear that business planning quotes provide a plethora of wisdom and motivation to help entrepreneurs take their businesses to the next level. They can be used as a source of inspiration during times of difficulty, or as words of caution for those looking to quickly scale their operations.

By reflecting on these quotes, entrepreneurs can draw upon the collective experiences of industry leaders and innovators. In doing so, they can gain valuable insight and advice from seasoned professionals in order to make more informed decisions about their business.

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72 Small Business Quotes for Entrepreneurs & Customers

Small Business Quote Graphic: The best time to support small businesses is always today. — Gisele Barreto Fetterman

There’s a special bond that exists among small business owners — as we understand the challenges, triumphs, and dedication that go into pursuing our entrepreneurial dreams.

To honor this connection and highlight the importance of small businesses, I’ve curated a list of quotes that perfectly convey the spirit and significance of building a scrappy little company.

Whether you’re a fellow founder or simply a lover of small businesses — these quotes serve as a reminder of the many benefits that come from supporting local businesses, including strengthening the local economy, fostering personal connections, and enabling the growth of unique, innovative ideas.

Let’s dive into these powerful words, which not only recognize the hard work and passion of small business owners but also encourage each of us to continue championing the entrepreneurs who make our communities so vibrant and creative.

The Best Small Business Quotes

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“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.” — Jason Fried, CEO of Basecamp

“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.” — Jason Fried, CEO of Basecamp

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” — Scott Belsky, co-founder of Behance

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” — Scott Belsky, co-founder of Behance

“Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.” — Idowu Koyenikan

“Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.” — Idowu Koyenikan

“You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.” — Dale Carnegie

“You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.” — Dale Carnegie

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” — Stephen King

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” — Stephen King

“You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.” — Adena Friedman

“You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.” — Adena Friedman

“The heart and soul of a company is creativity and innovation.” — Robert Iger, CEO of Disney

“The heart and soul of a company is creativity and innovation.” — Robert Iger, CEO on Disney

“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

“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

“Make something people want includes making a company that people want to work for.” — Sahil Lavingia, CEO of Gumroad

“Make something people want includes making a company that people want to work for.” — Sahil Lavingia, CEO of Gumroad

“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.” — Josh James, CEO and co-founder of Omniture

“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.” — Josh James, CEO and Co-founder of Omniture

“Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” — Wayne Huizenga

“Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” — Wayne Huizenga

“Do not focus on numbers. Focus on doing what you do best. It’s about building a community who want to visit your site every day because you create value and offer expertise.” — Cassey Ho

“Do not focus on numbers. Focus on doing what you do best. It’s about building a community who want to visit your site every day because you create value and offer expertise.” — Cassey Ho

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“The most successful entrepreneurs I know are optimistic. It’s part of the job description.” — Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr

“The most successful entrepreneurs I know are optimistic. It’s part of the job description.” — Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr

“What helps people, helps business.” — Leo Burnett

“Find a great mentor, someone who has already been through the many challenges of being an entrepreneur...” — Jodi Levine

“You don’t build a business, you build the people, then people build the business.” — Zig Ziglar

“Bringing great people onto your team is about demonstrating that size really doesn’t matter — people do.” — Jess Campbell

“I never dreamed about success — I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder

“I never dreamed about success — I worked for it.” — Estee Lauder‍

“Entrepreneurs understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity.” — Victor Kiam

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” — Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

“The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.” — Marc Benioff

“A big business starts small.” — Richard Branson

“A small business is an amazing way to serve and leave an impact on the world you live in.” — Nicole Snow

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” — Peter F. Drucker

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” — Peter F. Drucker

For Inspiration

“Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.” — Seth Godin

“Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.” — Seth Godin

“I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.” — Bobby Knight

“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.” — Wilma Rudolph

“The secret of success in any field is redefining what success means to you.” — RuPaul

 “One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.” — Michael Korda

“Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don’t let the bastards get you down.” — Michael Bloomberg

“Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don’t let the bastards get you down.”— Michael Bloomberg

“Knowledge exists to be imparted.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Never ever give up! Constant effort is the key to success.” — Xavier Davis

“Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, it’s the mastery of fear. It’s about getting up one more time when we fall down.” — Arianna Huffington

“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 for a problem in your own life.” — Brian Chesky, co-founder of Airbnb

“You build on failure. Use it as a stepping stone and close the door on the past. Don’t try to forget the mistakes, but don’t dwell on it.” — Johnny Cash

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman

“If we did all the things we were capable of, we would astound ourselves.” — Thomas Edison

“We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.” — Pete Cashmore, founder of Mashable

“We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.”— Pete Cashmore, founder and CEO Mashable

For Customers

“The best time to support small businesses is always today.” — Gisele Barreto Fetterman

“The best time to support small businesses is always today.” — Gisele Barreto Fetterman

“ Nearly one in four small businesses reported that their holiday sales will determine if their business can survive into next year. Remember that the next time you wonder if shopping small this holiday matters. It does. It truly does.” — Natalie Franke

“When you do your holiday shopping this year — be sure to shop local as much as possible. When we support our small businesses, we create jobs and commerce in the communities that need it most.” — Chris Jones

“Everyday is a good day to shop local, small, Black & brown businesses in our community.” — Ayanna Pressley

“Everyday is a good day to shop local, small, Black & brown businesses in our community.” — Ayanna Pressley‍

About Customer Service

“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

“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

“Great customer service is a critical competitive advantage for a business.” — Steve Benson

“Customer service is an opportunity to exceed your customer’s expectations.” — John Jantsch

“Know your communities well! Ask your customers questions and get feedback, get to know them and their needs, chat with other small businesses, work together, and above all: support each other!” — Andrew Young, owner of Bubble and Brown Bakery

“My advice is to focus on the importance of forging a long-term relationship, whether with colleagues, partners, or customers. It is often easy to get caught up in short-term decisions.” — Sheila Lirio Marcelo, founder of Care.com

“My advice is to focus on the importance of forging a long-term relationship, whether with colleagues, partners, or customers. It is often easy to get caught up in short-term decisions.” — Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Founder of Care.com‍

Short Quotes

“Business is the salt of life.” — Voltaire

“Business is the salt of life.”— Voltaire

“There is no finish line. There are only mile markers.” — Michael Ventura

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” — Frank Zappa

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

  “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein

“Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.” — Drake

“Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.” — Drake

“Don’t count the days, Make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali

“In order to succeed. We must first believe that we can.” — Nikos Kazantzakis

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

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” — Bruce Lee

“By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.” — Benjamin Franklin

“I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.” — Jonathan Winters

“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” — Sheryl Sandberg

“Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.” — Isabel Allende

“Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.” — Isabel Allende

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More Inspirational Quotes

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

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

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney

“Plan for what is difficult while it is easy. Do what is great while it is small.” — Sun Tzu

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” — C.S. Lewis

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” — Truman Capote

“Small opportunities are often beginning of great achievements.” — Demosthenes

“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

“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

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50 Great Quotes from Titans of Business

If you’re looking for some inspiration, look no further than some of these industry titans and some of the innovative ideas. These industry leaders have plenty to say, and it’s worth listening when they speak. So check out the following quotes and get a notepad ready so you can start jotting down ideas!

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO Amazon

“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

“You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.” — Jessica Herrin, founder and CEO of Stella & Dot

“Don’t let others convince you that the idea is good when your gut tells you it’s bad.” — Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg

“People are the most important thing. Business model and product will follow if you have the right people.” — Adam Neumann, co-founder of WeWork

“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 for a problem in your own life.” — Brian Chesky, co-founder of Airbnb

“When you are building a startup, it’s difficult. Particularly, a startup that is expanding at the rate of Tinder. You have to give 100%, and you have to be committed. Solving the problem has to be personal or else you’re going to disintegrate.” — Sean Rad, co-founder of Tinder, Inc.

“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, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Huffington Post Media Group

“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” —Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO Amazon

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” —Scott Belsky, co-founder Behance

“The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.” —Reid Hoffman, co-founder LinkedIn

“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” —Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO

Pierre Omidyar, founder and chairman eBay

“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”

“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, founder SPANX

“There are lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world.” —Phil Libin, CEO Evernote

“The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.” —Debbi Fields, founder Mrs. Fields Cookies

“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.” —Pierre Omidyar, founder and chairman eBay

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” —Vince Lombardi, executive, head coach, player NFL

“Do not focus on numbers. Focus on doing what you do best. It’s about building a community who want to visit your site every day because you create value and offer expertise.” — Cassey Ho, founder of Blogilates.com

“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, co-founder of Hootsuite

“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” —Guy Kawasaki, co-founder Alltop

“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.” —Bill Gates, co-founder Microsoft

“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.” —Claude McDonald

Tom Kelley, founder Ideo

“Fail often so you can succeed sooner.”

“Have the end in mind and every day make sure you’re working towards it.” —Ryan Allis, co-founder and CEO iContact

“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, Co-founder of Perkbox

“It’s necessary to find a mentor who can invest time to know your personal capabilities and business model.”  —Nigel Davies, Founder of Claromentis

“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” —Nolan Bushnell, founder Atari and Chuck-E-Cheese’s

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

“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, Co-Founder of HubSpot

“Fundraising is much easier now because of crowdfunding. Take advantage of that.” — Constantin Bisanz, Founder of Aloha

“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, co-founder of Canva

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” —Winston Churchill

“Fail often so you can succeed sooner.” —Tom Kelley, founder Ideo

William Rosenberg, founder Dunkin’ Donuts

“Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.”

“Be nicer to your customers than your competitors.” — Richard Reed, Co-Founder of Innocent Drinks

“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, Founder of Jo Malone

“I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.” —Jack Welch, chairman and CEO General Electric

“Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.” —William Rosenberg, founder Dunkin’ Donuts

“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.” —Ingvar Kamprad, founder Ikea

“In the age of transparency, honesty, and generosity, even in the form of an apology, generate goodwill.” — Alexander Asseily, founder of Jawbone

“Remain self-funded as long as possible.” — Garrett Camp, co-founder of Uber, StumbleUpon, and Expa

“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, Co-founder of Kiip

“Don’t let others convince you that the idea is good when your gut tells you it’s bad.” — Kevin Rose, co-founded Digg

“When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.” —Robert Kiyosaki, founder Cashflow Technologies Inc.

Brian Tracy, CEO Brian Tracy International

“If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.”

“We learned many things while building FourSquare. 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, co-founder of Foursquare

“If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.” —Brian Tracy, CEO Brian Tracy International

“Failure is not about insecurity, it’s about lack of execution.” —Jeffery Gitomer, business trainer

“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 Wendy’s

“If something is important enough, or you believe something is important enough, even if you are scared, you will keep going.” — Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX

“Only the paranoid survive.”  —Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel

“I’m always tweaking, always trying to make it better, constantly moving the levers and dials.” — Steve Ells, founder and co-CEO of Chipotle

“It starts with not having a hangover with the way things used to be.” — Kevin Plank, founder and CEO of Under Armour

“If you are not getting traction on your idea, you try few things. You try pushing harder, cleaning up something, building up to something aggressively — but if it doesn’t get traction, then don’t bother.” — Vijay Sharma, Founder of Paytm

“There is something artificial when everyone is agreeing with each other. It’s useful to indulge people who don’t agree, and see their viewpoint or force yourself to explain things better.” — David Sack, founder of Yammer

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Between social media and content marketing and ad campaigns and brand reputation management, marketing can feel chaotic. Sometimes, though, all we need to see is a quick quote that cuts right to the point of what we’re trying to accomplish in fifteen words or less.

Need a little inspiration, or a little clarity? That’s what these powerful marketing quotes are for.

Whether you’re a marketing agency or a small business (or freelancer!) grabbing your marketing by the reigns, these 105 incredible marketing quotes will transform your business and how you think about advertising, social media, content creation, and so much more.

Marketing Quotes on What Your Audience Wants

1. “The best marketing strategy ever: CARE.” – Gary Vaynerchuk , entrepreneur, speaker & marketing expert

2. “Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.” – Brian Chesky , cofounder of Airbnb

3. “Marketing is really just about sharing your passion.” – Michael Hyatt , virtual business mentor

4. “Amazing things will happen when you listen to the consumer.” – Jonathan Midenhall , CMO of Airbnb

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5. “Give them quality. That is the best kind of advertising.” –Milton Hershey, entrepreneur

6. “You can never go wrong by investing in communities and the human beings within them.” – Pam Moore , CEO of Marketing Nutz

7. “Our jobs as marketers are to understand how the customer wants to buy and help them to do so.” – Bryan Eisenberg , speaker and online marketing pioneer

8. “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” – Simon Sinek , author and marketing consultant

9. “Strong customer relationships drive sales, sustainability, and growth.” – Tom Cates , chairman and founder of The Brookeside Group

10. “When people feel insecure about something, they look around for validation. Show them that other people trust you.” – Francisco Rosales , social media marketing coach

11. “Advertising brings in customers, but word-of-mouth brings in the best customers.” – Jonah Berger , author & marketing professor

12. “Conversation with customers will increase sales, even if the product or service is never mentioned.” – George Farris , founder of Farris Marketing

13.“People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction.” – Brian Halligan , founder & CEO of HubSpot

Social Media Marketing Quotes

14. “Content is fire. Social media is gasoline.” – Jay Baer , author & inspirational marketing speaker

15. “Social media creates communities, not markets.” –Don Schultz, marketing pioneer

social media community marketing quote

16. “Social media is a contact sport.” – Margaret Molloy , CMO of SiegelGale

17. “Social media is about sociology and psychology more than technology.” – Brian Solis , blogger, author, & keynote speaker

18. “Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.” – Erik Qualman , digital leadership expert

19. “Getting the like is easy. It’s a light action. Anything else requires trust.” – Jon Loomer , Facebook Ads expert

20. “You cannot buy engagement. You have to build engagement.” – Tara-Nicholle Nelson , CEO of Transformational Customer Insights

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21. “Just as you don’t need to be on every single TV channel, I don’t believe a brand needs to be on every single social media in one big way.”–  Shiv Singh , marketing author

22. “Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them and they may come and stay.” – Seth Godin , author & marketing expert

23. “Social media is about the people. Not about your business. Provide for the people and the people will provide for you.” – Matt Goulart , digital marketing executive

24. “Sell-sell-sell sales methods simply do not work on social media.” – Kim Garst , social media strategist

Content Marketing Quotes

26.  “Content is king.” – Bill Gates

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27. “Content Marketing is not simply a campaign or a tactic, it’s a commitment.” – Valerie Uhlir , partner at Ethereal Innovations

28. “You can’t expect to just write and have visitors come to you. That’s too passive.” – Anita Campbell , CEO of Small Business Trends

29. “Before you create any more ‘great content,’ figure out how you are going to market it first.” – Joe Pulizzi , content marketer and strategist

30. “Not viewing your email marketing as content is a mistake.” – Chris Baggott , CEO of Compendium

31. “Content builds relationships. Relationships are built on trust. Trust drives revenue.” – Andrew Davis , marketing speaker & bestselling author

32. “Don’t build links. Build relationships.” – Rand Fishkin , founder of Moz

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33. “Marketing is telling the world you’re a rock star. Content marketing is showing the world you are one.” – Robert Rose , content marketing strategist

34. “Content marketing is more than a buzzword. It is the hottest trend in marketing because it is the biggest gap between what buyers want and brands produce.” – Michael Brenner , CEO of Marketing Insider Group

35. “Content is king, but engagement is queen, and the lady rules the house!” – Mari Smith , social media master

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36. “Content Marketing is no longer a numbers game. It’s a game of relevance.” –Jason Miller

37. “Content should ask people to do something and reward them for it.” – Lee Odden , digital marketer and strategist

38. “Content is the atomic particle of all digital marketing.” – Rebecca Lieb , media & content strategist

39. “Good content isn’t about good storytelling. It’s about telling a true story well.” Ann Handley , head of content at MarketingProfs

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40. “People share, read, and generally engage more with any type of content when it’s surfaced through friends and people they know and trust.” – Malorie Lucich , head of product communications at Pinterest

41. “Content marketing is like a first date. If you only talk about yourself, there won’t be a second one.” –   David Beebe , branded content producer

42. “Good content should be at the heart of your strategy, but it is equally important to keep the display context of that content in mind as well.” – Tim Frick , principal of MightyBytes

PPC Marketing Quotes

43. “Nobody reads ads. People read what interests them. Sometimes, it’s an ad.” – Howard Gossage , real-life MadMen inspiration

44. “Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.” –Bill Bernbach

50. “We need to stop interrupting what people are interested in and be what people are interested in.” – David Beebe , branded content producer

We need to stop interrupting what people are interested in and be what people are interested in

51. “If great content is the hero, then banners are the villain.” – Michael Brenner , CEO of Marketing Insider Group

52. “Never let ads write checks your website can’t cash.” – Avinash Kaushik , digital marketing evangelist

53. “Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.” – Mark Zuckerberg , creator of Facebook

54. “Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.” – Steuart Henderson Britt , consumer behavior specialist

55. “If your content isn’t driving conversation, you’re doing it wrong.” – Dan Roth , LinkedIn’s executive editor

56. “The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.” – Peter Drucker, founder of Drucker Institiute

57. “Think like a customer.” – Paul Gillin , B2B & social media strategist

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58. “Every trackable interaction creates a data-point, and every data-point tells a piece of the customer’s story.” – Paul Roetzer , founder & CEO of PR20/20

59. “It’s hard to target a message to a generic 35-year-old middle-class working mother of two. It’s much easier to target a message to Jennifer, who has two children under four, works as a paralegal, and is always looking for quick but healthy dinners and ways to spend more time with her kids and less time on housework.” –Elizabeth Gardner, founder of garnish media

Storytelling Marketing Quotes

60. “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 , poet

61. “We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling.” – Jimmy Neil Smith , Director of the International Storytelling Center

62. “The key is, no matter what story you tell, make your buyer the hero.” –Chris Brogan, CEO of Owner Media Group

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63. “If your stories are all about your products and services, that’s not storytelling. It’s a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.” – Jay Baer , author & inspirational marketing speaker

64. “Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.” – Roger C. Schank , CEO of Socratic Arts

65. “Marketing is no longer about the stuff you make, but about the stories you tell.” – Seth Godin , author & marketing expert

66. “An ad is finished only when you no longer can find a single element to remove.”— Robert Fleege , advertising expert 

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Copywriting Marketing Quotes

67. “These days, people want to learn before they buy, be educated instead of pitched.” – Brian Clark

68. “Less is more. Keeping it simple takes time and effort.” – Jeff Bullas , digital marketing influencer

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69. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” –Leonardo Da Vinci, renaissance man  

70. “Decide the effect you want to produce in your reader.” —Robert Collier, author

71. “If you can’t explain it to a 6-year old, you don’t know it yourself.” –Albert Einstein, 72. genius

73. “On average, 8 out of 10 people will read your headline copy, but only 2 out 10 will read the rest.” – Brian Clark , CEO of Rainmaker Digital

74. “Copy is a direct conversation with the consumer.”–Shirley Polykoff

Consumer Marketing Quote

75. “The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.” –William Bernbach

76. “I’ve learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.”— Leo Burnett , founder of the Leo Burnett Group 

77. “Even when you are marketing to your entire audience or customer base, you are still simply speaking to a single human at any given time.” – Ann Handley , head of content at MarketingProfs

Quotes on Brand

78. “Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time.” – Elon Musk , CEO of SpaceX and Tesla.

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79. The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability. – Simon Mainwaring , marketing consultant

80. “A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is—it is what consumers tell each other it is.” – Scott Cook , cofounder of Intuit

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81. “Your brand is a story unfolding across all customer touch points.” – Jonah Sachs , author & entrepreneur

82. “Your culture is your brand.” – Tony Hsieh , CEO of Zappos

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83. “A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.” – Jeff Bezos , CEO and founder of Amazon

84. “Your personal brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room – remember that. And more importantly, let’s discover why!” – Chris Ducker , personal brand entrepreneur

85. “If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand.” – Howard Schultz , CEO of Starbucks

value marketing quotation

86. “Your personal brand is a promise to your clients… a promise of quality, consistency, competency, and reliability.” – Jason Hartman , CEO of Platinum Properties Investor Network

87. “Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealized, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust.” – Richard Branson , founder of The Virgin Group

88. “We elect and buy from people we like. Likability is number one. We also need to believe they are honest, and have our best interests at heart.” – George Farris , founder of Farris Marketing

Search Engine Quotes

89. “In 2004, good SEO made you remarkable on the web. In 2014, good SEO is a result of being remarkable on the web.” – Rand Fishkin , founder of Moz

90. “Google is the new corporate homepage.” – Jeremiah Owyang , founder of CrowdCompanies 

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91. “Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first.” – Wendy Piersall , writer & blogger 

google only loves you when everyone else loves you first

92. “Google will know that you are hungry for sushi before you do.” – Ben Kunz , SVP of marketing and content at Mediassociates 

General Marketing Quotes

93. “Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” – Milan Kundera , writer

94. “The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing.” – Tom Fishburne , “marketoonist”

95. “Today it’s important to be present, be relevant and add value.” – Nick Besbeas , former CMO of LinkedIn

96. “Instead of using technology to automate processes, think about using technology to enhance human interaction.” – Tony Zambito , lead authority in buyer personas

marketing automation quote

97. “Make your marketing so useful people would pay you for it.” – Jay Baer , author & inspirational marketing speaker

98. “The internet has turned what used to be a controlled, one-way message into a real-time dialogue with millions.” – Danielle Sacks , senior editor at Inc. magazine

99. “Marketing’s job is never done. It’s about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.” – Beth Comstock , Vice Chair of GE

innovation marketing quote

100. “Word of mouth can be as important, if not more important, for neighborhood businesses as traditional advertising.” – Ekaterina Walter , marketing strategist

101. “Going viral is not an outcome; it”s a happening. Sometimes it happens; sometimes it doesn’t. Just remember, fans are vanity and sales are sanity.” – Lori Taylor , founder & executive editor of Social Caffeine

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102. “The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.” –Thomas Jefferson, third president

103. “People spend money when and where they feel good.” –Walt Disney

walt disney marketing quote

104. “Sell the problem you solve. Not the product you make.” –Unknown

105. “Marketing without data is like driving with your eyes closed.” – Dan Zarrella , social media scientist

106. “Thinking that every idea and piece of content you create must be the first of its kind is a trap.”– Sujan Patel, co-founder of  Right Inbox .

Final Thoughts

The phrases “marketing” and “advertising” are generally disliked and distrusted by consumers, making some small businesses wary of how to promote their businesses. These inspirational, education marketing quotes, however, are powerful reminders that marketing isn’t meant to deceive or swindle; instead, it’s an art form that should be used to tell your business’s story and build relationships with your customers. And with these quotes- and all the how-to resources on our blog- you can start transforming your business and your marketing right now.

When in doubt, remember this incredible quote from author Karen Lamb : “A year from now, you’ll wish you’d have started today.”

What do you think? What’s your favorite marketing quote? Which of these quotes jumped out at you? Leave us a comment and let us know what you think! 

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> “Never let ads write checks your website can’t cash.” > –Avinash Kaushik, digital marketing evangelist

Like most things that digital “marketers” claim as their own, this is stolen from a conventional print advertising man, Howard Luck Gossage.

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Planning is key to success, if you do not have a plan for your life then you will just end up falling into someone else’s plan and your life will not amount to much but mediocrity. May these Quotes On Planning inspire you to create a blueprint for your future and beyond in the best of manners so that you may attain success .

1.  “Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” Alan Lakein

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2.  “Planning for success will make you even more creative.” Danielle LaPorte

3.  “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” Anonymous

4.  “Proper planning and preparation prevents poor performance.” Stephen Keague

5.  “Success doesn’t just happen. It’s planned for.” Anonymous

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6.  “A plan is only as good as those who see it through.” Anonymous

7.  “ Failing to plan is planning to fail.” Allen Lakein

8.  “Plan your work and work your plan.” Napoleon Hill

9.  “Sometimes, we need to stop analyzing the past and start planning the future.” Anonymous

10.  “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” Confucius

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11.  “Planning is everything.” Dwight D. Eisenhower

12.  “For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” African Proverb

13.  “Good luck is the result of good planning.” Anonymous

14.  “Get up earlier and take some time to plan your day. Every extra minute you spend planning will add more time and power to your life.” Anonymous

15.  “The sooner you start planning your life, the sooner you will live the life you dream of.” Hans Glint

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16.  “Most people don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan.” John L. Beckley

17. “ Good planning without good working is nothing.” Dwight D. Eisenhower

18.  “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” Winston Churchill

19. “Do you have a plan?” Anonymous

20.  “An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.” Dale Carnegie

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21.  “Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.” Chuck Knox

22.  “Without goals and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” Fitzhugh Dodson

23.  “Strategic planning will help you uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.” Robert J. McKain

24.  “You can spend your whole life planning. But once you’re ready, get out there and start doing.” Taylor Momsen

25.  “Set your intentions for the week. People who plan achieve.” Anonymous

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26.  “Dreaming after all, is a form of planning.” Gloria Steinem

27.  “The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.” Miguel De Cervantes

28.  “If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.” Terence McKenna

29.  “The backbone of success is hard work, determination, good planning, and perseverance.” Mia Hamm

30.  “Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.” Thomas Edison

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31.  “Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and most of all self-discipline.” Thomas J. Stanley

32.  “If you don’t plan, how do you plan to succeed ?” Anonymous

33.  “Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general’s tent.” Stephen R. Covey

34.  “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” Brian Tracy

35.  “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” Earl Nightingale

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A coalition of crypto entrepreneurs filed a lawsuit in Texas this week that could force the Supreme Court to take up the all-important question of whether the Securities and Exchange Commission has the authority to regulate most digital assets.

The outcome of the fight could determine the future for companies like crypto exchanges Coinbase Global Inc. COIN, -2.88% , Binance and Kraken, as well as variety of up-and-coming crypto projects like Solana SOLUSD, -0.38% , Cardano ADAUSD, -0.69% and Polygon MATICUSD, +0.09% — all of whom the SEC has accused of violating federal securities law by failing to register with the agency.

The Crypto Freedom Alliance of Texas, a nonprofit trade group, and Lejilex, yet-to-be-launched crypto exchange, filed a complaint in federal court Wednesday seeking a judicial declaration that sales of digital assets are not securities transactions, as the SEC has alleged in its lawsuits against Coinbase, Binance and Kraken.

Read more: SEC charges Coinbase for illegally operating an unregistered securities exchange

“We wish we were launching our business instead of filing a lawsuit, but here we are,” said Mike Wawszczak, Co-Founder of Lejilex, in a statement. “The SEC’s rogue enforcement actions targeting our industry have paralyzed those of us who just want to build lawful businesses and technologies.”

The SEC declined to comment.

The industry hired the law firm of Clement & Murphy — led by former Solicitor General Paul Clement and litigator Erin Murphy — which specializes in “strategic litigation,” or court cases that are motivated by a desire to bring about broader policy change, often through rulings at the Supreme Court.

The lawsuit was filed in district court in the federal judiciary’s Fifth Circuit, known for its conservative-leaning judges, and was assigned to Judge Reed O’Conner, a George W. Bush appointee famous for his rulings that have undermined the Obamacare law and other liberal causes.

“The crypto industry needed to find a way for these very conservative courts to hear these cases, because there’s no way they’re going to rule for the SEC,” said Todd Phillips, an administrative-law expert who teaches at Georgia State University.

The Crypto Freedom Alliance of Texas and Lejilex want Judge O’Connor to issue a declaratory judgement saying that the exchange doesn’t have to register with the SEC as a securities exchange, so that it can avoid getting sued by the agency under the same theories that it used to accuse Coinbase of violating the law.

If they succeed, the crypto industry can seize the initiative from the SEC, which up to this point has been able to choose the times and places it has battled digital-asset companies in court, according to a source familiar with the plaintiffs’ strategy.

Even if the SEC is successful in convincing other district courts in New York, Washington, D.C., and California that crypto exchanges have been violating securities laws, a favorable ruling in the Fifth Circuit would create a situation where the Supreme Court would likely have to take up the case.

The Supreme Court is dominated by a 6-3 conservative majority that has been eager to issue rulings that have weakened the regulatory state in recent years, including a ruling that blocked the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to fight climate change by regulating power companies, and another which said that the leadership structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional .

“The crypto industry is trying to manufacture a circuit split so that the Supreme Court will basically have to take the case,” Phillips said.

The lawsuit’s central argument is that the SEC is misinterpreting the case law on the question of what constitutes an “investment contract.”

Investment contracts are securities under federal law, and those who issue securities or operate exchanges that sell securities must register with the SEC and submit to its regulatory regime.

See also : Blockchain firm LBRY tries to rally sector against SEC; critics allege a ‘cryptocurrency suppression program’

The SEC has argued that digital assets like Solana or Cardano are securities because investors buy these tokens and expect to profit based on the efforts of the entrepreneurs behind these projects.

The Lejilex lawsuit argues the SEC is ignoring the fact that, for a digital asset to qualify as investment contract, it would have to confer on the buyer of that asset some sort of contractual claim on proceeds earned by the issuers of the asset — which is not the case for Solana, Cardano or any of the other tokens the SEC has characterized as securities in its cases against crypto exchanges.

Under the SEC’s view of the law, the plaintiffs argue, the agency would be allowed to regulate collectibles like limited-run sneakers or baseball cards as securities, because investors often buy those products with the expectation that they’ll increase in value based on the promotional efforts of the collectibles’ manufacturers.

The SEC will get a chance to respond to Lejilex’s claims in a filing of its own, which can be expected in the coming months, and the court will likely rule on the issue later this year.

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Iconic Florida hotspot turning the corner as plans emerge for 'Billionaire's Beach'

'luxury is moving back' to miami's art deco district, real estate developer michael shvo said.

SHVO Chairman and CEO Michael Shvo speaks to FOX News Digital about his $2 billion investment into Miami Beach real estate, Art Deco restorations and the future of the lifestyle and cultural hotspot.

Miami Beach luxury is ‘moving back’ to Art Deco era: Michael Shvo

SHVO Chairman and CEO Michael Shvo speaks to FOX News Digital about his $2 billion investment into Miami Beach real estate, Art Deco restorations and the future of the lifestyle and cultural hotspot.

Paralleling Miami Beach’s turquoise, glassy waters and sunny coastline are the pastel-colored buildings with neon lights that make the skyline postcard perfect.

While the scene normally caters to tourists and locals enjoying the tropical, Art Deco culture and design, one New York-based developer is pouring billions into restoring, renovating and revitalizing three iconic mix-use properties in Miami.

"We bought multiple assets in Miami Beach to develop a true [component-based development]... really bringing a kind of excellence to Miami Beach between buildings Norman Foster-designed, to Peter Marino," SHVO Chairman and CEO Michael Shvo told FOX News Digital.

"It's not only building the Raleigh, which today is considered the premier residential and hotel property being developed on the beach, but also bringing the office buildings into the beach, which just truly don't exist today," he continued. "Definitely not at a quality that any company or any kind of Fortune 500 company would want to put their headquarters there."

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Owning 75% of Miami Beach’s Class-A office, residence, hotel and retail space, SHVO is reportedly the largest active developer in the area today. Three of the firm’s under-construction projects – The Raleigh, The Alton and One Soundscape Park – aim to redefine the district as a sort of "Billionaire’s Beach" while preserving the Art Deco culture.

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Michael Shvo is investing $2 billion into restoring iconic Miami Beach buildings from the Art Deco era. (Fox News)

"All three buildings were designed by the same architect, Lawrence Murray Dixon. What we're doing is restoring all the buildings to the exact design that they were designed and built in the 40s," Shvo explained. "Over the years in Miami Beach, we've seen not only at the Raleigh, but in most properties, additions that were made on buildings. So it could have been a building that was built in the 40s, and there was a 60s edition, 70s and 80s. What we're doing there is we're actually peeling back the onion."

"We're removing every layer off the building that was not built in the 40s with the original L. Murray Dixon design," the CEO added, "and restoring everything that was originally designed and not there today."

In its heyday, the Raleigh hotel was graced by the likes of Audrey Hepburn, and, more recently, stars such as Madonna , Lady Gaga and Anna Wintour. Shvo has acquired the iconic Art Deco building twice, as it faced a celebrity ownership battle in the years prior with figures like André Balazs and Tommy Hilfiger.

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An aerial view of the Raleigh’s historic Miami Beach hotel pool.

"I've been fairly obsessed with the Raleigh Hotel for over a decade now. I've lost the property twice," Shvo reflected. "I managed to buy the property from Tommy Hilfiger, subsequently also buy the two adjacent properties, to assemble three acres on the ocean. But I've been going to Miami for 15 years, and, as I said, there was one property I had my eyes on."

Restorations at the three Art Deco landmarks are going "full steam" ahead, the developer noted, while also spotlighting the Raleigh’s renovation as a "big undertaking" due to its historical significance.

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"We have a long history of restoring super-prime real estate, with the idea that we always bring it back to the way [of] the original design. I'm purist in that sense," Shvo said, "I believe that when you restore historically important buildings, you have to be true to the original design. And if you're going to build anything new, build it separate and then have it be totally different."

As a response to history and art critics who may argue for the properties to be left alone, Shvo clarified his team’s objective to embody the buildings’ "original grandeur" for future residents and visitors to enjoy.

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"Different owners did different things with the building, but nobody really made the financial commitment, not the business commitment, to restore these buildings to their true original design," Shvo pointed out. "And it's an expensive commitment. The Raleigh's a $1 billion project, and a big part of that cost is driven by the extensive renovation and restoration that we have to do in order to preserve the original Raleigh design."

Sales for residence space allegedly began in early December during Art Basel week at starting prices of $10 million. By mixing modern elegance with a flashback in time, Shvo hopes to attract "discerning" buyers with a taste for the "highest level" of service and design.

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SHVO’s restored Raleigh hotel from an aerial view, overlooking Miami Beach. | Fox News

"The amount of millionaires that are moving to Miami Beach and obviously, billionaires, Jeff Bezos or Ken Griffin, have really moved the market. There is a tremendous amount of demand for top-of-the-market quality, the 1% of the 1%, and that's what we're appealing to," he said.

Florida and Miami-Dade County’s population boom wasn’t just a post-COVID "fad," with Shvo claiming Miami is "up to par" with destinations like New York City, San Francisco or Los Angeles in terms of living and vacationing.

"Miami has passed the tipping point," the CEO said. "The Art Deco district was always the center of luxury in Miami Beach… now you're seeing that luxury has all moved back and moving back to the Art Deco district… and I think we're going to continue seeing that. We're going to see the transformation of Miami Beach."

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"We're going to see some of the less desirable hotels be transformed into true luxury, because the people are there. But I think, equally important, I expect that, over the next five years, Miami Beach is going to be a true place [where] people want to work," Shvo said.

"We're taking a very strong financial position behind my conviction… And my hope is that other developers will follow. And I hope that we've raised the bar for everybody, because together, we could make Miami Beach kind of the center of Florida."

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