Top 200 Business Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.”

— W. Edwards Deming

102. “Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.”

— Bill Gates

103. “Be the leader you wish you had.”

— Simon Sinek

104. “There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.”

— Zig Ziglar

105. “Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.”

— Napoleon Hill

106. “Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.”

— Bill Gates

107. “The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn’t fail. It still didn’t really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.”

— Max Levchin

108. “If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.”

— Warren Buffett

109. “Make time, not excuses.”

— Grant Cardone

110. “Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.”

— John C. Maxwell

111. “Quality is everyone’s responsibility.”

— W. Edwards Deming

112. “Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?”

— Brian Tracy

113. “I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, be more active, show up more often.”

— Brian Tracy

114. “Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.”

— Zig Ziglar

115. “Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.”

— Marie Forleo

116. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

— Napoleon Hill

117. “Pour your heart and soul into your business. People will notice.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

118. “The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”

— Zig Ziglar

119. “Change before you have to.”

— Jack Welch

120. “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”

— Stephen R. Covey

121. “Three rules for a career: Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself. Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire. Work only with people you enjoy.”

— Charlie Munger

122. “Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.”

— Brian Tracy

123. “Have fun, work hard and money will come. Don’t waste time – grab your chances. Have a positive outlook on life. When it’s not fun, move on.”

— Richard Branson

124. “We all make mistakes. If you can’t make mistakes, you can’t make decisions. I’ve made a lot bigger mistakes myself.”

— Warren Buffett

125. “A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”

— John C. Maxwell

126. “If you talk about it, it’s a dream, if you envision it, it’s possible, but if you schedule it, it’s real.”

— Tony Robbins

127. “Business has only two basic functions – marketing and innovation.”

— Peter F. Drucker

128. “Successful people are simply those with successful habits.”

— Brian Tracy

129. “A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths.”

— Peter F. Drucker

130. “None of us is as smart as all of us.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

131. “If book knowledge made great investors, then the librarians would all be rich.”

— Warren Buffett

132. “You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out.”

— Warren Buffett

133. “It’s more important to do the right thing than to do things right.”

— Peter F. Drucker

134. “Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don’t do anything new.”

— Jeff Bezos

135. “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.”

— Peter F. Drucker

136. “A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.”

— Harvey MacKay

137. “No, I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated.”

— Elon Musk

138. “When you were made a leader you weren’t given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.”

— Jack Welch

139. “Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.”

— Bill Gates

140. “I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.”

— Warren Buffett

141. “Never lower your price, add value.”

— Grant Cardone

142. “If you build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.”

— Jeff Bezos

143. “All intelligent investing is value investing – acquiring more than you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.”

— Charlie Munger

144. “It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”

— Zig Ziglar

145. “Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far.”

— Warren Buffett

146. “A company’s employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product.”

— Richard Branson

147. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

— Jeff Bezos

148. “Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.”

— Warren Buffett

149. “Investing is simple, but not easy.”

— Warren Buffett

150. “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”

— Michael Porter