Motivational Business Quotes

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. – Harold Geneen

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. - W. Clement Stone

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

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

You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity. From that love will come the dedication that will get you out of bed at 4 a.m. because of a great idea you just had and get you to work till 11 p.m. and not feel tired. – Ken Field

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Thomas Watson, Sr.

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

Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands. -Zig Ziglar

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

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter Drucker

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. – Robert H. Schuller

Winners never quit and quitters never win. - Vince Lombardi

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
- Warren Buffett

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader

There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley

Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. – Abraham Lincoln

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
– Vince Lombardi

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree I would spend six hours sharpening my axe. – Abraham Lincoln

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life. – John F. Kennedy

Business is more exciting than any game. – Lord Beaverbrook

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”
– John C. Maxwell

Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
– Stephen R. Covey

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby

Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare. – Chinese Proverb

The golden rule for every business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place”. – Orison Swett Marden

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. - Don Marquis

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
- Jane Fonda

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. – Peter Drucker

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Norman Schwarzkopf

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

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

Business is in itself a power. – Garet Garrett

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. – Arnold H. Glasow

A man should never neglect his family for business. – Walt Disney

The only limits are, as always, those of vision. – James Broughton

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. – Nora Roberts

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates

You can’t operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing. – Steve Ross

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
- Paul Tournier

I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. – Robert Bosch

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.- Alvin Toffler

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. – Oprah Winfrey

If you did not look after today’s business then you might as well forget about tomorrow. – Isaac Mophatlane

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right! – Henry Ford

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him. – William Hazlitt

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

If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. – Ray Kroc

Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing. – Magic Johnson

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. – Peter F. Drucker

Business is a combination of war and sport. – Andre Maurois

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. – Thomas J. Watson

Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day. – Francis Gray

Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum. – Jeffrey Immelt

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. – Napoleon Hill

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin.

The only way around is through. – Robert Frost

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

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. – Walt Disney

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

You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. – Jim Stovall

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

People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps. – Mary Kay Ash

In business, I’ve discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That’s my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards. – Donald Trump

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. – John Egan

Let’s be honest. There’s not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings. – Bob Parsons

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life. – Charles M. Schwab

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

To win without risk is to triumph without glory. – Pierre Corneille

Management is nothing more than motivating other people. – Le Iacocca

To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. – Tony Dorsett

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. – Bill Gates

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
- Thomas A. Edison

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
-Napoleon Hill

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. – Norman Vincent Peale

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. – Zig Ziglar

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

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

A goal properly set is halfway reached. – Zig Ziglar

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet. – Robert H. Schuller

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. – Theodore Roosevelt

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Only the best failures ever succeed

Never, never, never give up.
– Winston Churchill