Top 98 Company Quotes

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Running a company is a difficult task. You have to be a good, strong leader. With that in mind, check out the top 98 company quotes.

#98 – 90. Company Quotes

98. If you can dream it, you can do it. — Walt Disney

97. In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination. — Steve Case

96. It is crucial to recongnize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments. – Rosabeth Kanter

95. Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket. — Jason Calacanis

94. Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you. — Mark Cuban

93. The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%. — Rob Kalin

92. Money motivates neither the best people nor the best in people. Purpose does.- Nilofer Merchant

91. If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you. — Zig Ziglar

90. There needs to be conviction and action behind rules. – Clay Christensen

#89 – 80. Company Quotes

89. It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you. — Jason Cohen

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

87. Anything that is measured and watched, improves. — Bob Parsons

86. Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you. — Tony Hsieh

85. Data beats emotions. — Sean Rad

84. However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. — Stephen Hawking

83. Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. — Oprah Winfrey

82. Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. — Guy Kawasaki

81. Change before you have to. – Jack Welch

80. The job is not the work. – Seth Godin

#79 – 70. Company Quotes

79. What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed. — Dave Thomas

78. The path to success is to take massive, determined action. – Tony Robbins

77. Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for. — Kyle Bragger

76. Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right. — Henry Ford

75. Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors. — Chris Dixon

74. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. — Golda Meir

73. The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow. — Ingvar Kamprad

72. Always deliver more than expected. — Larry Page

71. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. – Charles R. Swindoll

70. Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. – Les Brown

#69 – 60. Company Quotes

69. The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. –  Oprah Winfrey

68. All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA. — Reid Hoffman

67. An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create. — David Karp

66. If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out. — Mark Zuckerberg

65. Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop. — Jeffrey Zeldman

64. Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea. — Mark Pincus

63. Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us. – Umair Haque

62. Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day. — Joel Spolsky

61. I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about. — Jake Nickell

60. You Are Never Too Old To Set Another Goal Or To Dream A New Dream. – C.S. Lewis

#59 – 50. Company Quotes

59. The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it. – Marcus Buckingham

58. There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity. – Tom Peters

57. No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the week. — Spencer Fry

56. I never dreamed about success, I worked for it. — Estee Lauder

55. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou

54. Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us. — Angelo Sotira

53. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. — Helen Keller

52. Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first. – Simon Sinek

51. When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’ — Tom Preston-Werner

50. Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress. – Richard Branson

#49 – 40. Company Quotes

49. Stay self-funded as long as possible. — Garrett Camp

48. Success is never accidental. – Jack Dorsey

47. Live each day as if your life had just begun. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

46. You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea. — Larry Page

45. You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good. — Peter Shankman

44. The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. — Bill Gates

43. Don’t try to be original, just try to be good. — Paul Rand

42. Diligence is the mother of good luck. — Benjamin Franklin

41. Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else. — Sara Blakely

40. When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue. — Josh James

#39 – 30. Company Quotes

39. Celebrate what you want to see more of. – Tom Peters

38. Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever. — Noah Everett

37. Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do. – Mark Cuban

36. Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined and connected to one another. And, when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives. — Daniel Pink

35. A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader. — Fred Wilson

34. Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen. — Wayne Huizenga

33. It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. — Scott Belsky

32. Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch. — Michael Arrington

31. Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. — Steve Jobs

30. Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you. — Tony Hsieh

#29 – 20. Company Quotes

29. Nothing works better than just improving your product. — Joel Spolsky

28. Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. — Biz Stone

27. The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be. — Reid Hoffman

26. Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that. — Anthony Volodkin

25. Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical. — Howard Schultz

24. Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything.  I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work. — Ben Silbermann

23. Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be. — Lakshmi Mittal

22. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams

21. More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad. – Guy Kawasaki

20. Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them. — Tony Hsieh

#19 – 10. Company Quotes

19. No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team. — Reid Hoffman

18. Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations. — Tim O’Reilly

17. If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large. — Jeff Bezos

16. The value of an idea lies in the using of it. — Thomas Edison

15. Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not. — Michael Dell

14. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. — Steve Jobs

13. There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team. — Jason Fried

12. See things in the present, even if they are in the future. — Larry Ellison

11. If you define yourself by how you differ from the competition, you’re probably in trouble. — Omar Hamoui

10. If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them. — Ryan Freitas

#9 – 1. Company Quotes

9. Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose. – Mary Anne Radmacher

8. Your brand is your culture. – Zappos

7. You can never rise higher than your exceptions of yourself. Expect the best! – Brian Tracy

6. If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late. — Reid Hoffman

5. Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect. — Jack Dorsey

4. The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new. — Socrates

3. Legacy is greater than currency- Gary Vaynerchuk

2. Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward. – Hilary Clinton

1. Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell. — Lisa Stone

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