Top 150 Positive Work Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.”

— Steve Jobs

102. “Alone we are smart. Together we are brilliant.”

— Steven Anderson

103. “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

104. “If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.”

— Og Mandino

105. “Strive for excellence, not perfection.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

106. “What is easy to do is also easy not to do.”

— Jim Rohn

107. “Diversity drives innovation – when we limit who can contribute, we in turn limit what problems we can solve.”

— Telle Whitney

108. “Leaders are those who empower others.”

— Bill Gates

109. “Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.”

— Timothy Gallwey

110. “Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.”

— Simon Sinek

111. “I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.”

— Will Smith

112. “Collaboration equals innovation.”

— Michael Dell

113. “When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.”

— Simon Sinek

114. “In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.”

— Warren G. Bennis

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

— John F. Kennedy

116. “Take good care of your employees, and they’ll take good care of your customers, and the customers will come back.”

— J. Willard Marriott

117. “Challenge serves beautifully to introduce you to your best – and most brilliant – self.”

— Robin S. Sharma

118. “Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.”

— Lawrence M. Miller

119. “Leadership is an achievement of trust.”

— Peter F. Drucker

120. “It’s not how you start that’s important, but how well you finish!”

— Jim George

121. “Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

122. “There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Richard Branson

124. “Have fun, do good, and the money will come.”

— Richard Branson

125. “Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.”

— Kim Collins

126. “Have a vision. Be demanding.”

— Colin Powell

127. “It’s not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.”

— Tony Robbins

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

— Jim Rohn

129. “I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you’re well on your way to success in this world.”

— Charlie Munger

130. “Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.”

— Abdul Kalam

131. “Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”

— Margaret Thatcher

132. “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”

— William James

133. “It’s only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.”

— Paulo Coelho

134. “As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.”

— Daymond John

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

— Richard Branson

136. “Leaders create culture. Culture drives behavior. Behavior produces results.”

— Urban Meyer

137. “No one knows everything. But together, we know a whole lot.”

— Simon Sinek

138. “Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.”

— Napoleon Hill

139. “You are more powerful than you think.”

— Tim Cook

140. “If you’re always ready, you don’t have to get ready.”

— Will Smith

141. “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

142. “Life and business are like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. Therein lies the opportunity to live an extraordinary life, the opportunity to change yourself.”

— Jim Rohn

143. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

— Colin Powell

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

— Tony Hsieh

145. “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.”

— Sam Walton

146. “The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.”

— Simon Sinek

147. “Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.”

— Sōichirō Honda

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

— Jack Ma

149. “Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.”

— Colin Powell

150. “Hard work never brings fatigue. It brings satisfaction.”

— Narendra Modi