Top 200 Business Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.”

— Abraham Maslow

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Personal Development Quotes

2. “Big results require big ambitions.”

— Heraclitus

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Ambition Quotes

3. “If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.”

— Nora Roberts

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Personality Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

4. “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.”

— George Lucas

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

5. “If people like you they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you they’ll do business with you.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Impact Quotes

6. “Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you.”

— Tony Hsieh

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Startup Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Inspirational Quotes for Work

7. “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

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Financial Success Quotes, Making Money Quotes

8. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Startup Quotes, Failure Quotes

9. “Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Reflection Quotes

10. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Action Quotes, Interesting Quotes

11. “The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Wealth Quotes, Financial Success Quotes, Making Money Quotes

12. “My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

13. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Action Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

14. “Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Inspirational Business Quotes, Sales Motivational Quotes, Desire Quotes

15. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”

— Andy Rooney

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Feel Good Quotes, Challenges Quotes

16. “One customer, well taken care of, could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Service Quotes, Small Business Quotes

17. “The best vision is insight.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Famous Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Vision Quotes

18. “A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.”

— Suze Orman

Also featured in: Prosperity Quotes, Financial Success Quotes, Quotes About Money, Smart Quotes

19. “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Simple Life Quotes

20. “We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Making Money Quotes

21. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

— Bill Gates

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes

22. “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Success Quotes, Wealth Quotes

23. “The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Excellence Quotes, Quotes About Work

24. “If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.”

— Bill Gates

Also featured in: Quotes About Money

25. “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”

— Peter F. Drucker

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Change Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Business Quotes

26. “It is better to create than to learn. Creating is the essence of life.”

— Julius Caesar

Also featured in: Learning Quotes

27. “Don't mistake activity with achievement.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Common Sense Quotes, Productivity Quotes

28. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Action Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes

29. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

— Drew Houston

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Goal Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Taking Action Quotes

30. “Think big. Start small.”

— Seth Godin

31. “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Quotes About Hope

32. “Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.”

— Arthur Koestler

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Overcoming Fear Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes, Hero Quotes

33. “Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive.”

— Donald Trump

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

34. “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

— Thomas Sowell

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes, Mistake Quotes

35. “The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.”

— Benjamin Jowett

36. “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

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Service Quotes

37. “Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.”

— Seth Godin

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Strategy Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Growth Quotes

38. “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

— Anthony Volodkin

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Quotes About Work, Reputation Quotes

39. “Treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Business Quotes, Empowerment Quotes

40. “There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”

— Sam Walton

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Satisfaction Quotes, Quotes About Work

41. “The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”

— Laurence Sterne

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

42. “I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Quotes for Better Decisions

43. “Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.”

— Jeff Bezos

Also featured in: Inspirational Business Quotes, Reputation Quotes, Marketing Quotes

44. “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”

— Paul Rand

Also featured in: Startup Quotes

45. “The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Happy Friday Quotes

46. “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”

— Henry Ford

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Problem-Solving Quotes

47. “I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Tuesday Inspirational Quotes

48. “Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Clever Quotes, Energy Quotes

49. “How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

— Ronald Reagan

Also featured in: Government Quotes

50. “Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.”

— Richard Lamm

Also featured in: Sarcastic Quotes