business motivational quotes

1. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
2. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
3. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
4. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
5. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
6. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
7. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg
8. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” – Henry Ford
9. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
10. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
11. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
12. “You can have everything you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want in life.” – Zig Ziglar
13. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
14. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
15. “To succeed in business, you must build a brand and never destroy it. One competitive advantage I had when I ventured into manufacturing was my brand “Dangote,” which I diligently built in the course of my trading commodities.” – Aliko Dangote
16. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
17. “In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.” – Harold Geneen
18. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
19. “Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.” – David Rockefeller
20. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” – Seth Godin
21. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson
22. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
23. “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” – Albert Einstein
24. “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
25. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” – Steve Jobs
26. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
27. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
28. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
29. “If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.” – Unknown
30. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire and hard work.” – Lewis Howes
31. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
32. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
33. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
34. “The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect.” – Adam Osborne
35. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
36. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
37. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder
38. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
39. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
40. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
41. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
42. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” – Leonardo da Vinci
43. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
44. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
45. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. “If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!” – T. Harv Eker
47. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
48. “The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.” – Roy L. Smith
49. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
50. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
51. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
52. “The only source of knowledge is experience.” – Albert Einstein
53. “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions.” – Catherine Cook
54. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
55. “The biggest challenge in business is not having the right skills or knowledge; it’s overcoming the fear of failure.” – Paul C. Brunson
56. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
57. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
58. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying .” – Michael Jordan
59. “The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.” – Warren Buffett
60. “The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.” – Hasidic Proverb
61. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
62. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
63. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
64. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
65. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
66. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
67. “If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.” – Malcolm X
68. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
69. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley
70. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” – Scott Belsky
71. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
72. “In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.” – Harold Geneen
73. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” – Tony Gaskins