Top 101 Business Quotes That You Should Know

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Business is a pressure cooker. The constant pressure to succeed is never easy. With that in mind, check out the top 101 business quotes.

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#101 – 90. Business Quotes

101. Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. – Robert Kiyosaki

100. For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. – Charles Baudelaire

99. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

98. Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. – Clayton Christensen

97. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. – Richard Branson

96. A miser and a liar bargain quickly. – Proverb

95. A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. – Henry Ford

94. The fellow who says he’ll meet you halfway usually thinks he’s standing on the dividing line. – Orlando A. Battista

93. The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh. – Robert Kiyosaki

92. Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. – Napoleon Hill

91. No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied. – L.L. Bean

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

#89 – 80. Business Quotes

89. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau

88. My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. – Maya Angelou

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

86. Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. – Babe Ruth

85. Most of our competitors were one-product wonders … They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out. – Bill Gates

84. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

83. Nobody ever lost money taking a profit. – Bernard Baruch

82. I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. – Steve Jobs

81. Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom. – William George Jordan

80. Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked. – Warren Buffett

#79 – 70. Business Quotes

79. Don’t be addicted to money. Work to learn. don’t work for money. Work for knowledge. – Robert Kiyosaki

78. Beware of any enterprise requiring new clothes. – Henry David Thoreau

77. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker

76. Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners. – Fred A. Allen

75. Every problem is a gift — without problems we would not grow. – Anthony Robbins

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

73. If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new. – Jeff Bezos

72. You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. – Jim Rohn

71. It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. – Joseph Addison

70. If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow. – Steve Jobs

#69 – 60. Business Quotes

69. The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get. – Scott Alexander

68. 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

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

66. When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps. – Proverb

65. 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

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

63. If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn

62. 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

61. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

60. 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

#59 – 50. Business Quotes

59. 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

58. Cut your losses and let your profits run. – Proverb

57. Even if you are on the right track, You’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers

56. Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, trans-formative success is. – Seth Godin

55. The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

54. If you are going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

53. 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

52. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. – Bill Gates

51. There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. – Henry Ford

50. 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

#49 – 40. Business Quotes

49. Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death. – Seth Godin

48. If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late. – James Goldsmith

47. If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much. – Steve Jobs

46. Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy. – Jim Rohn

45. People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want. – Seth Godin

44. Eighty percent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen

43. My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job. – Ted Turner

42. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

41. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. – Napoleon Bonaparte

40. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. – Thomas Jefferson

#39 – 30. Business Quotes

39. We generate fears while we sit. We over come them by action. Fear is natures way of warning us to get busy. – Dr. Henry Link

38. I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible. – Henry Ford

37. In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes. – Robert Kiyosaki

36. Frankly, I don’t want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust. – Joe Bamford

35. 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

34. Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them. – Jean Baudrillard

33. Unless you dream, you’re not going to achieve anything. – Richard Branson

32. The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. – Japanese Proverb

31. You are not your resume, you are your work. – Seth Godin

30. The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first. – Sergey Brin

#29 – 20. Business Quotes

29. The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. – Carlos Castaneda

28. Buying is cheaper than asking. – Proverb

27. The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That’s approaching evil. – Jeff Bezos

26. Play by the rules, but be ferocious. – Phil Knight, founder

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

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

23. For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. – Bill O’ Reilly

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

21. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. – Farrah Gray

20. The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. – Konrad Adenauer

#19 – 10. Business Quotes

19. Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article. – P. D. Armour

18. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. – Maya Angelou

17. I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. – Donald Trump

16. I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that’s not even in the vocabulary. – Kim Basinger

15. There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. – Oprah Winfrey

14. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney

13. If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse. – Walt Disney

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

11. To think is easy, to act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth

10. I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you. – Jeff Bezos