Quotes about business

When we are running our business, we sometimes feel scared and unease because the outcome might not be what we are expecting. We feel down and lost our hope in continuing our business and the end result is that we could lose our business. When we are down, we sometimes go to the net in search of motivational words that can give us strength and help us move forward in achieving our dreams. Quotes about business are some of these motivational words that can help us become motivated in pushing forward.

Whether you are a CEO of a small corporation or even in a large corporation you cannot deny the fact that daily challenges in business are always present and sometimes can bring us down. Even if you have the necessary resources to execute your business plan, if you don’t have the spirit or the determination that drives you to execute it then you cannot possibly achieve your business goal. That is why motivation for business is required. Quotes about business are one of the many motivational tools that can be used to gain your spirit and to get you back in the business track. There are numerous business quotes that are quoted by famous businessmen with regards to their experience in the business world. These businessmen strive to give us guidance so that we cannot make the same mistakes as what they did. They had given us their secrets in how to become successful in the business world with these powerful business quotations. Quotes about business are not just any words that are compiled to give us inspirations, this are words compiled to help us gain strength when we are down, when we are lost and when we are scared.

Motivation in a business is an important tool that can help us execute our business plan successfully. Even if you have the necessary resources to execute your business plan, if you don’t have the determination that drives you to execute it, the plan will surely come to failure. Quotes about business that are carved from other peoples experiences are here to guide us as we follow the path to success.

The following are some inspirational business quotes that can help us regain our strength when we are down, that can serve us our guidance when we are lost.

1.       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

2.      Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.-Robert H. Schuller

3.      High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.-Charles Kettering

4.      I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.-Tiger Woods

5.      I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.-John Cleese

6.      I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.-Jennifer Aniston

7.      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

8.      If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.-Khalil Gibran

9.      In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.-William Knudsen Jr 

10.   Traditional thinking is all about "what is." Future thinking will also need to be about "what can be."- Edward de Bono

11.    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

12.   Life is too complicated not to be orderly. – Martha Stewart

13.   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

14.   Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson

15.   Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg

16.   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. –Ren Mulford Jr.

17.   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

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

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

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

21.   The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. – Henry Ford

22.  The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. – Epictetus

23.  I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making. – B.C. Forbes

24.  The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything”. I say, “Only one man can do anything.” - John W. Gardner

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

26.  Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman. – George Soros

27.  Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight Eisenhower

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

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

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

31.   To the degree we’re not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. – Peter McWilliams

32.  The enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth-persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. – John F. Kennedy

33.  Long-range planning works best in the short term. – Doug Evelyn

34.  The NBA is never just a business. It’s always business. It’s always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal. – Mark Cuban

35.  You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. – Joseph E. Levine

36.  In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It’s no different in the financial realm. – Suze Orman

37.  The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. – Confucius

38.  The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell. – Andrew Carnegie

39.  Hire character. Train skill. – Peter Schutz

40. 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

41.   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

42.  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

43.  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

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

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

46. 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

47.  The only way around is through. – Robert Frost

48. 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

49. The noblest search is the search for excellence – Lyndon B. Johnson

50.  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

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

52.  The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. – John Naisbitt

53.  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

54.  It’s through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we’ve always mapped our path at Dell. There’s always an opportunity to make a difference. – Michael Dell

55.  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

56.  To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business. – J. Paul Getty

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

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

59.  Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. – Zig Ziglar

60. I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement. – Donald Trump

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

62.  The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. – Nolan Bushnell

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

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

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

66. I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them! – C.J. Walker

67.  There is no royal, flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it. For if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard. – C.J. Walker

68. Business is more exciting than any game. – Lord Beaverbrook

69. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. –Albert Einstein

70.  We are currently not planning on conquering the world. – Sergey Brin

71.   If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. – Bill Rancic

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

73.  Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading: buying and selling. – Anita Roddick

74.  To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. – Tryon Edwards

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

76.  Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel

77.  If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. – Ingvar Kamprad

78.  Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations. – Steve Jobs

79.  You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance. – Lee Iacocca

80. The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. – Laurence Sterne

81.   Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. – David Rockefeller

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

83.  Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. – James Thurber

84. 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

85.  The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. – Blaine Lee

86. To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. – George Kneller

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

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

89. No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others.. or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. – Calvin Coolidge

90. Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. – Henry J. Kaiser

91.   Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi

92.  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

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

94. 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

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

96. Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. –Charles Dickens

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

98. There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don’t like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don’t spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities. – Michael Dell

99. I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well. – Alan Greenspan

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

101.            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

102.           You must remain focused on your journey to greatness. – Les Brown

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

104.           Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. –Charles F. Kettering

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

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

107.           Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. –Denis Waitley

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

109.           Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

110.            The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. –Peter Drucker

111. Why did I want to win? Because I didn’t want to lose! – Max Schmelling