100 Motivational Quotes - Motivational Quotes About Business 2023

1.  There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
2. If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
3. If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. J. Paul Getty
   
   
   
4. 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
5. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Andy Warhol
6. Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. Edward Gibbon
7. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. Max de Pree
8. Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. Theodore Isaac Rubin
9. Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. Tom Peters
10. The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. Peter Drucker
11. Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. Herbert Hoover
12. Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. Don Marquis
13. Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect. W. W Clement Stone
14. And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. Andrew Carnegie
15. An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it. Dee Hock
16. One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. Arnold H. Glasow
17. Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. Gary Ryan Blair
18. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. Adam Smith
19. The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. Confucius
20. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. Paul Tournier
21. All lasting business is built on friendship. Alfred A. Montapert
22. No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. Niccolo Machiavelli
23. The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis
24. To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. Andre Malraux
25. If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. B. C. Forbes
26. The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. Walter Lippmann
27. Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. John Kenneth Galbraith
28. First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people. Leo Rosten
29. It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. Will Rogers
30. Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with. Paula Abdul
31. Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. Harry Emerson Fosdick
32. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain
33. If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion. Elon Musk
34. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Dale Carnegie
35. Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. Thomas A. Edison
    
    
    
36. A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. Jeff Bezos
37. A company is only as good as the people it keeps. Mary Kay Ash
38. Details create the big picture. Sanford I. Weill
39. In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. Harold S. Geneen
40. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Henry Ford
41. It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. Tom Brokaw
42. An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. Laurence J. Peter
43. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Napoleon Hill
44. Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Robert H. Schuller
45. I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. Thomas Jefferson
46. An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. Jack Welch
47. Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. Howard Aiken
48. Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. W. Edwards Deming
49. So little done, so much to do. Cecil Rhodes
50. Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce
51. If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. Charles Kettering
52. We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. Alexis de Tocqueville
53. Business is a combination of war and sport. Andre Maurois
54. Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left. John Ray
55. When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder. James H. Boren
56. Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. Walter Scott
57. It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket. Elon Musk
58. Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. William Arthur Ward
    
    
    
59. Carpe per diem - seize the check. Robin Williams
60. The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. Blaine Lee
61. There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! Coco Chanel
62. If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. Khalil Gibran
63. The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork. Igor Sikorsky
64. The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. Benjamin Jowett
65. Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. Warren Bennis
66. I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate. Jeff Bezos
67. My father told me, never have partners. Howard Hughes
68. One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. A. C. Benson
69. People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.' Sinclair Lewis
70. Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. Kin Hubbard
71. Never argue with a profit. Jeff Rich
72. I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience. Debbi Fields
73. In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
74. Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers. Ross Perot
75. It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. Dale Dauten
76. Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design. Tim Berners-Lee
77. For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. Charles Baudelaire
78. If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. Jane Fonda
79. Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. Bill Gates
80. A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company. Gordon Bethune
81. The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. Publilius Syrus
82. If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail. Jeff Bezos
83. Great companies are built on great products. Elon Musk
84. If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. Abraham Lincoln
85. Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. Thomas A. Edison
86. Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people. Mary Kay Ash
87. I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. Ralph Nader
88. What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life. Paul A. Volcker
89. Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. Frank Lloyd Wright
90. Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. Tacitus
91. Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard. Edgar Fiedler
92. Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. Henry R. Luce
93. Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. David Ogilvy
94. I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. Edward Appleton
95. We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. Steve Ballmer
96. Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. Peter Drucker
97. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. Robert Orben
98. I want to put a ding in the universe. Steve Jobs
99. Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. Scott Adams
100. Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast. Tom Peters
     
     
     
101. Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. Evan Esar
102. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. Henry David Thoreau
103. The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. J. Paul Getty
104. Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product. Elon Musk
105. We're all working together; that's the secret. Sam Walton
106. It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. Isaac Asimov
107. More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. Rose Kennedy
108. When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. Dwight D. Eisenhower
109. If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something. Rupert Murdoch
110. Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. Thomas J. Watson
111. Word of mouth is the best medium of all. William Bernbach
112. Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. Peter Drucker
113. The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. Henry Ford
114. Business is in itself a power. Garet Garrett
115. I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. John Dalberg-Acton
116. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Andy Warhol
117. My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job. Ted Turner
118. Our favorite holding period is forever. Warren Buffett
119. The business of America is business. Calvin Coolidge
120. Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. Winston Churchill
121. The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative. Elon Musk
122. I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. John Cleese
123. Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net. Meg Whitman
124. If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars. James Surowiecki
125. When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me? Glenn Beck
126. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. Steve Jobs
127. When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked. Elon Musk
128. Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it. Colin Powell
129. Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. Stanislaw Lem
130. As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. John Greenleaf Whittier
131. If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. Robert H. Schuller
132. No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. Andrew Carnegie
     
     
     
133. What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. Blaine Lee
134. In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. William Wordsworth
135. There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second. Jeff Bezos
136. The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. Napoleon Hill
137. Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. Walt Disney