Top 200 Inspirational Business Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Listen to me. We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?”

— Steve Jobs

102. “Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.”

— Brian Tracy

103. “Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It’s not your way or my way; it’s a better way, a higher way.”

— Stephen R. Covey

104. “So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

105. “If you want to grow, find a good opportunity. Today, if you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve.”

— Jack Ma

106. “It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.”

— Richard Branson

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

— Peter F. Drucker

108. “It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.”

— Mark Cuban

109. “Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.”

— Brian Tracy

110. “Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

111. “Most people know what to do, but they don’t do what they know – because they haven’t found their inner drive. Their passion.”

— Tony Robbins

112. “The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.”

— John C. Maxwell

113. “If you don’t make bold moves, the world doesn’t move forward.”

— Richard Branson

114. “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

115. “You don’t build a business – you build people – and then people build the business.”

— Zig Ziglar

116. “If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.”

— Patrick Lencioni

117. “Move fast, take risks. It’s okay to try big things. You’re better off trying something and having it not work, than not having done anything at all.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

118. “If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we’ll turn out all right.”

— Jeff Bezos

119. “As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.”

— Richard Branson

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

— Bill Gates

121. “The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader’s true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.”

— Simon Sinek

122. “Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

— Peter F. Drucker

123. “A leader’s job is not to do the work for others; it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.”

— Simon Sinek

124. “Customer service shouldn’t just be A department, it should be the entire company.”

— Tony Hsieh

125. “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”

— Stephen R. Covey

126. “Good is the enemy of great. That’s why so few things become great.”

— James C. Collins

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

— Richard Branson

128. “A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better.”

— Richard Branson

129. “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.”

— Steve Jobs

130. “Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

— Joel Spolsky

131. “When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.”

— Larry Ellison

132. “Things don’t have to change the world to be important.”

— Steve Jobs

133. “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

— Warren Buffett

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

— Peter F. Drucker

135. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”

— Richard Branson

136. “Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

137. “Listen to your customers, not your competitors.”

— Joel Spolsky

138. “You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.”

— Tim Ferriss

139. “You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to sell it.”

— Steve Jobs

140. “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

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

— Peter F. Drucker

142. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

— Jack Dorsey

143. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.”

— Steve Jobs

144. “Good is the enemy of great.”

— Jim Collins

145. “The brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond profit.”

— Richard Branson

146. “Don’t pass up something that’s attractive today because you think you will find something way more attractive tomorrow.”

— Warren Buffett

147. “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

— Andrew Carnegie

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

— Seth Godin

149. “If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it’s impact, you can probably create history.”

— Sharad Vivek Sagar

150. “If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.”

— Steve Jobs