Best Business Quotes

by · 25 September 2024

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?

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