Best Business Quotes

The best business quotes to inspire leadership, innovation, and success

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

• “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue those counts.” — Winston Churchill

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

• “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” — Chris Grosser

• “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” — Albert Schweitzer

• “It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” — Bill Gates

• “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates

• “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” — Warren Buffett

• “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker

• “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” — John D. Rockefeller Jr.

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

• “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

• “Do what you love, and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.” — Meg Whitman

• “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs

• “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” — Madam C.J. Walker

• “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vidal Sassoon

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

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

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

• “Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.” — Arianna Huffington

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

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

• “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” — Jim Rohn

• “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” — Howard Schultz

• “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

• “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” — Samuel Goldwyn

• “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein

• “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou

• “The road to success and the road to failure are almost the same.” — Colin R. Davis

• “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

• “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” — Richard Branson

• “An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.” — Reid Hoffman

• “Surround yourself with people who challenge you, teach you, and push you to be your best self.” — Bill Gates

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

• “Nothing works better than just improving your product.” — Joel Spolsky

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

• “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” — Roy T. Bennett

• “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Nelson Mandela

• “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs

• “Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” — Simon Sinek

• “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” — Steve Jobs

• “High expectations are the key to everything.” — Sam Walton

• “The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.” — Meg Whitman

• “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” — Elon Musk

• “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” — Biz Stone

• “The difference between who you are and want to be is what you do.”

• “The only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” — Mark Zuckerberg

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

• “The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” — Nolan Bushnell

• “Success in business requires training, discipline, and hard work.” — David Rockefeller

These quotes cover a range of ideas from leadership, innovation, hard work, and dealing with failure—essential elements of any successful business endeavor. Which of these resonates most with your business mindset?