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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
#9 – 1. Business Quotes
9. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. – Winston Churchill
8. Business is more exciting than any game. – Lord Beaverbrook
7. There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them. – Seth Godin
6. You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. – Walt Disney
5. One finds limits by pushing them. – Herbert Simon
4. If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. – Steve Jobs
3. There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch. – Joseph Addison
2. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. – Theodore Roosevelt
1. Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. – Andy Rooney
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