Top 200 Business Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

— Scott Belsky

52. “You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”

— Napoleon Hill

53. “We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.”

— Bill Gates

54. “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”

— Napoleon Hill

55. “Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.”

— Peter F. Drucker

56. “Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.”

— Peter F. Drucker

57. “I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.”

— Warren Buffett

58. “There are only two things in a business that make money – innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.”

— Peter F. Drucker

59. “A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”

— Richard Branson

60. “I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.”

— Warren Buffett

61. “I’d rather have a $10 million business making 15 per cent than a $100 million business making 5 per cent.”

— Warren Buffett

62. “The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.”

— Peter F. Drucker

63. “Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company’s ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.”

— Bill Gates

64. “If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”

— Warren Buffett

65. “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.”

— Sam Walton

66. “Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

— John C. Maxwell

67. “Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.”

— Bill Gates

68. “The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

69. “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”

— Warren Buffett

70. “I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.”

— Elon Musk

71. “In God we trust; all others bring data.”

— W. Edwards Deming

72. “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”

— Warren Buffett

73. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

— Stephen R. Covey

74. “People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.”

— Elon Musk

75. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.”

— Warren Buffett

76. “I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute. ”

— Warren Buffett

77. “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”

— Richard Branson

78. “To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.”

— Bill Gates

79. “If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”

— Thomas J. Watson

80. “Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

81. “Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.”

— Warren Buffett

82. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.”

— Brian Tracy

83. “You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.”

— Warren Buffett

84. “Accounting is the language of business.”

— Warren Buffett

85. “There are two types of pain you will go through in life, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes.”

— Jim Rohn

86. “Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.”

— Warren Buffett

87. “Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”

— Benjamin Franklin

88. “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

89. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”

— Steve Jobs

90. “Wall Street is the only place that people drive to in a Rolls Royce to take advice from people who ride the subway.”

— Warren Buffett

91. “Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.”

— Richard Branson

92. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

— Tony Robbins

93. “That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

— Steve Jobs

94. “This is a software-powered world.”

— Satya Nadella

95. “My favorite holding period is forever.”

— Warren Buffett

96. “Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!”

— Brian Tracy

97. “Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion.”

— Simon Sinek

98. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

— Bill Gates

99. “We’re changing the world with technology.”

— Bill Gates

100. “Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.”

— John C. Maxwell