Top 200 Inspirational Business Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.”

— John D. Rockefeller

152. “The best advertising is done by satisfied customers.”

— Philip Kotler

153. “Rich people invest money and poor people spend it.”

— Grant Cardone

154. “Succeeding in business is all about making connections.”

— Richard Branson

155. “My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.”

— Richard Branson

156. “Starting your own business is like riding a roller coaster. There are highs and lows and every turn you take is another twist. The lows are really low, but the highs can be really high. You have to be strong, keep your stomach tight, and ride along with the roller coaster that you started.”

— Lindsay Manseau

157. “Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.”

— Jim Rohn

158. “Frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.”

— Jeff Bezos

159. “Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.”

— Peter F. Drucker

160. “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

161. “To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.”

— Richard Branson

162. “The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

— Paul Graham

163. “Never ever compete on prices, instead compete on services and innovation.”

— Jack Ma

164. “Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.”

— Tom Peters

165. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

— Arnold H. Glasow

166. “With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can’t figure out when it will happen. You don’t want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you’re right about what, you don’t have to worry about when.”

— Warren Buffett

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

— Richard Branson

168. “We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We’re creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We’re rewriting the history of human thought with what we’re doing.”

— Steve Jobs

169. “We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.”

— Jeff Bezos

170. “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”

— Max De Pree

171. “He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.”

— Chanakya

172. “Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

173. “Either make your money work for you or you will always have to work for your money.”

— Marshall Sylver

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

— Richard Branson

175. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

— Steve Jobs

176. “Leadership is communicating people’s worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.”

— Stephen R. Covey

177. “Don’t wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.”

— Robert G. Allen

178. “You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.”

— Jack Ma

179. “I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.”

— Elon Musk

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

— Bill Gates

181. “Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.”

— Simon Sinek

182. “If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”

— Elon Musk

183. “No one ever went broke by taking a profit.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

184. “Collaboration equals innovation.”

— Michael Dell

185. “The time to go into a new business is when it’s badly run by others.”

— Richard Branson

186. “Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.”

— Anita Roddick

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

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Jeff Bezos

189. “I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.”

— Henry Ford

190. “Communication is the key for any global business.”

— Anita Roddick

191. “Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it’s the life blood of business.”

— Richard Branson

192. “Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.”

— Tony Robbins

193. “The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition is to do an outstanding job with information.”

— Bill Gates

194. “The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’”

— Jeff Bezos

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

— Jeff Bezos

196. “No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

197. “The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life – be it our working life, our social life, or our home life – deserves to be constantly improved.”

— Masaaki Imai

198. “If your ‘why’ is strong enough, you will figure out ‘how’!”

— Bill Walsh

199. “Customers will never love a company until its employees love it first.”

— Simon Sinek

200. “Branding is the art of becoming knowable, likable and trustable.”

— John Jantsch