- “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” — Richard Branson
- “The only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” — Mark Zuckerberg
- “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” — Aristotle Onassis
- “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates
- “In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.” — Warren Buffett
- “Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” — Milan Kundera
- “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” — Thomas Watson Sr.
- “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” — Henry Ford
- “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” — Warren Buffett
- “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” — Colin Powell
- “Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work.” — David Rockefeller
- “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” — Peter Drucker
- “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
- “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” — Thomas Jefferson
- “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.” — Norman Schwarzkopf
- “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” — Scott Belsky
- “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” — Ralph Nader
- “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” — Steve Jobs
- “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” — Peter Drucker
- “The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born—that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.” — Warren Bennis
- “To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.” — Aristotle Onassis
- “Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow.” — Anthony Robbins
- “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
- “If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.” — B.C. Forbes
- “Business is a combination of war and sport.” — André Maurois
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker
- “The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.” — John Egan
- “The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.'” — Orison Swett Marden
- “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.” — Michael LeBoeuf
- “In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.” — William Knudsen Jr.
- “Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.” — Henry Ford
- “There is only one boss. The customer.” — Sam Walton
- “Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “The most successful entrepreneurs I know are optimistic. It’s part of the job description.” — Caterina Fake
- “Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.” — Dhirubhai Ambani
- “Goals are like magnets. They’ll attract the things that make them come true.” — Tony Robbins
- “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” — G.K. Chesterton
- “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.
- “Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it’s the patience of a marathon runner.” — Robert Herjavec
- “Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy.” — Jim Rohn
- “In business, what’s dangerous is not to evolve.” — Jeff Bezos
- “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” — Henry Ford
- “The best investment is in the tools of one’s own trade.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “To build a long-term, successful enterprise, when you don’t close a sale, open a relationship.” — Patricia Fripp
- “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” — Michael John Bobak
- “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” — Charles F. Kettering
- “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.” — Jeff Bezos
- “The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.” — Charles M. Schwab
- “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder
- “The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect.” — Adam Osborne
- “The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.” — Michael Gerber
- “If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.” — Ray Kroc
- “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” — Biz Stone
- “The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” — Nolan Bushnell
- “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” — Lisa Stone
- “Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.” — Tim Westergren
- “Treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.” — Stephen R. Covey
- “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” — Larry Page
- “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” — Fred Wilson
- “Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.” — Maxwell Maltz
- “Business is more exciting than any game.” — Lord Beaverbrook
- “In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision.” — Peter F. Drucker
- “The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.” — Lee Iacocca
- “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” — Barack Obama
- “The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” — Mark Zuckerberg
- “Your brand is what other people say about you when you’re not in the room.” — Jeff Bezos
- “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” — Steve Jobs
- “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” — Colin R. Davis
- “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” — Charles Darwin
- “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” — Amelia Earhart
- “A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” — Richard Branson
- “The purpose of a business is to create a customer who creates customers.” — Shiv Singh
- “You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.” — Steve Jobs
- “To be successful, you have to have quantity of quality.” — Mark Frauenfelder
- “There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” — Seth Godin
- “Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you’re in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.” — Sidney Sheldon
- “Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” — Zig Ziglar
- “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” — Warren Buffett
- “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” — Peter Drucker
- “The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.” — John Naisbitt
- “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vidal Sassoon
- “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.” — Steve Jobs
- “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” — Jack Dorsey
- “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” — Tony Hsieh
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney
- “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