Top 200 Inspirational Quotes for Work (2024 Update)
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101. “No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

102. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

— Warren G. Bennis

103. “Success takes an investment in time, dedication, and sacrifice. This is true education. It is a process.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

104. “Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.”

— Stephen R. Covey

105. “The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.”

— Roy L. Smith

106. “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

107. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”

— Thomas Jefferson

108. “Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them. We know if we treat our employees right, they’ll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they’ll come back.”

— J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

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

— W. Edwards Deming

110. “Thinking is the capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution.”

— Abdul Kalam

111. “The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.”

— John C. Maxwell

112. “Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.”

— Billy Graham

113. “Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.”

— Steve Jobs

114. “Stop selling. Start helping.”

— Zig Ziglar

115. “Hire character. Train skill.”

— Peter Schutz

116. “Leaders are those who empower others.”

— Bill Gates

117. “Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.”

— Tom Peters

118. “It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.”

— Stephen R. Covey

119. “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

120. “A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”

— Henry Ford

121. “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

— Caterina Fake

122. “While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.”

— John C. Maxwell

123. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Richard M. Kovacevich

125. “Complexity is the enemy of execution!”

— Tony Robbins

126. “Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.”

— Simon Sinek

127. “If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.”

— Jim Rohn

128. “If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.”

— Bill Gates

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

— Richard Branson

130. “Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.”

— Zig Ziglar

131. “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

132. “The very important thing you should have is patience.”

— Jack Ma

133. “Be larger than your task.”

— Orison Swett Marden

134. “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

135. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

— Jack Welch

136. “If you want to predict the future, create it.”

— Peter F. Drucker

137. “Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.”

— Abdul Kalam

138. “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

139. “Success is in the details.”

— Zig Ziglar

140. “To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big.”

— Aliko Dangote

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

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

142. “If you add the value, you will become the brand. Find a way to add more value than anyone else does.”

— Tony Robbins

143. “Companies must have a noble cause, and it’s the leader’s job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it.”

— Steve Jobs

144. “Happy employees ensure happy customers. And happy customers ensure happy shareholders – in that order.”

— Simon Sinek

145. “Work first, and then rest.”

— John Ruskin

146. “Don’t be addicted to money. Work to learn. don’t work for money. Work for knowledge.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

147. “Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success – and success is in direct proportion to our service.”

— Earl Nightingale

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

— Richard Branson

149. “Accountability breeds response-ability.”

— Stephen R. Covey

150. “The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.”

— Lee Iacocca