Top 200 Business Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

152. “Business is a marathon, and most of society thinks it’s a sprint.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

153. “If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.”

— W. Edwards Deming

154. “Everybody’s got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.”

— Warren Buffett

155. “I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.”

— Warren Buffett

156. “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.”

— Peter F. Drucker

157. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

— Steve Jobs

158. “Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.”

— Seth Godin

159. “If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.”

— Jeff Bezos

160. “Leadership is a choice, not a position.”

— Stephen R. Covey

161. “Leadership is influence.”

— John C. Maxwell

162. “The true measure of leadership is influence – nothing more, nothing less.”

— John C. Maxwell

163. “If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.”

— Jeff Bezos

164. “I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.”

— Warren Buffett

165. “In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.”

— Warren Buffett

166. “Vision is a destination – a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route – an adaptable path to get us where we want to go.”

— Simon Sinek

167. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”

— Peter F. Drucker

168. “It’s not the big that eats the small – it’s the fast that eats the slow.”

— Jason Jennings

169. “All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

— Brian Tracy

170. “When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.”

— Zig Ziglar

171. “A vision and strategy aren’t enough. The long-term key to success is execution. Each day. Every day.”

— Richard M. Kovacevich

172. “Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.”

— W. Edwards Deming

173. “The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don’t. It’s just that simple.”

— Charlie Munger

174. “If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.”

— Jeff Bezos

175. “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.”

— Warren Buffett

176. “Don’t take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion is correct. In other words, don’t be an impatient trader.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

177. “There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.”

— Tom Peters

178. “The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”

— Napoleon Hill

179. “Great companies are built on great products.”

— Elon Musk

180. “The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

181. “A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”

— John C. Maxwell

182. “Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.”

— Peter F. Drucker

183. “Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets – and can be lost in a heartbeat.”

— Charlie Munger

184. “It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.”

— Henry Ford

185. “Almost all good businesses engage in ‘pain today, gain tomorrow’ activities.”

— Charlie Munger

186. “If you look after your staff, they’ll look after your customers. It’s that simple.”

— Richard Branson

187. “Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”

— Charlie Munger

188. “If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together.”

— Ratan Tata

189. “Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks, one owns businesses, not pieces of paper.”

— Warren Buffett

190. “I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody’s that smart.”

— Charlie Munger

191. “Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.”

— Charlie Munger

192. “Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.”

— Jim Rohn

193. “The difference between a good business and a bad business is that good businesses throw up one easy decision after another. The bad businesses throw up painful decisions time after time.”

— Charlie Munger

194. “You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I’ll build the business right back again.”

— Henry Ford

195. “The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.”

— Charlie Munger

196. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

— Robert Collier

197. “Opportunities come to pass, not to pause.”

— James Wallace

198. “A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.”

— Charlie Munger

199. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”

— Elon Musk

200. “Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.”

— Tony Hsieh