200 Business Quotes Every Entrepreneur Should Read

Business is science. Business is future. Entrepreneurs work at the doors of progress and this is everything but easy.

Reading biographies can help to figure out what kind of problems and blocks businessmen are facing and how to overcome them.

However, we often are really busy so here is a concentrate of the best business quotes from the most successful entrepreneurs, companies, startup, businessmen, marketers…

In this article you’ll get new visions and mindset, inspiration and ideas!

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Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. — Robert Kiyosaki

When you depersonalize abrasive behavior and see it as a call for help you become a catalyst for the best kind of change. — Marilyn Suttle

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. — Derek Sivers

Don’t be evil. — Larry Page

If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late. — James Goldsmith

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death. — Seth Godin

Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind. — Sun Tzu

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. Mark Twain. — Criss Jami

I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying. Jeff Bezos. — Jess C Scott

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. — Albert Einstein

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. — Walt Disney

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Ask that extra question. It’s that one little extra question that makes the difference. — Conrad Hilton

Beware of any enterprise requiring new clothes. — Henry David Thoreau

Art of War.

There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them. — Seth Godin

Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success. — Jeffrey Zeldman

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. — Maya Angelou

Ignore the hype of the startups that you see in the press. Mostly, it’s a pack of lies. Half of these startups will be dead in a year. So, focus on building your business so you can be the one left standing. — Sun Tzu

Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day. — Gary Vaynerchuck

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. — Bill Gates

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. — Sheryl Sandberg

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich. — Henry Ford

What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengthsand can call on the right strength at the right time. — Tom Rath

When I stopped to take a breath, I noticed I had wings. — Jodi Livon

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the moment. (Moments: Making Your Life Count For What Matters Most, Mike Van Hoozer). — Alexandre Dumas

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. — Walt Disney

Winning is not a sometime thing, it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. — Vince Lombardi

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things. — David Ogilvy

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. — Alice Walker

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. — Thomas Watson

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Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn

Every man has a specific skill, whether it’s discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his nicheoriginality loses its authenticity in one’s efforts to obtain originality. — 37Signals

Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you. — Zig Ziglar

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill

Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth. — Gary Vaynerchuck

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong. — Warren Buffett

It ain’t over ’til it’s over. — Agu Jaachynma N.E.

If you’re creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn’t the case. So dust off your horn and start tooting. — Boris Johnson

When it gets difficult is often right before you succeed. Chris Garrett. — Sun Tzu

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. — Henry Ford

Respect is the key determinant of high-performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform. — Sun Tzu

Unless you dream, you’re not going to achieve anything. — Richard Branson

Success in general is a well-balanced blend of luck, DNA, confidence, and hustle. — Amit Kalantri

Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love. — Peter Drucker

Develop an ‘Attitude of Gratitude’. Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you. — Habeeb Akande

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you are not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out. — Steve Jobs

Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. — Sam Walton

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go. — Simon Zingerman

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. — Henry David Thoreau

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. — Thomas Jefferson

Hire character. Train skill. — Tom Rath

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. — John Lennon

You become what you think about. — Napoleon Hill

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship..the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. — Sun Tzu

Let’s change the way we look at what happens to us. — Napoleon Hill

Truth builds trust. — Marilyn Suttle

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new. — Jeff Bezos

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit. — Aristotle

Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, trans-formative success is. — Seth Godin

Want more words of encouragement?. — Sun Tzu

The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell. — Andrew Carnegie

I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. — Steve Jobs

To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around. — Richie Norton

Willpower and success quotes

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That’s approaching evil. — Jeff Bezos

Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time. — Henry Ford

Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy. — Jim Rohn

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you. — Jeff Bezos

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. — Baltasa

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything. — Henry David Thoreau

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. — Walt Disney

If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large. — Jeff Bezos

It is never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot

Simply minding one’s own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than. — Shannon L. Alder

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey. — Lolly Daskal

If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow. — Steve Jobs

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. — Hugh Macleod

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes. — Robert Kiyosaki

Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it. — Ryan Allis

For maximum attention, nothing beats a good mistake.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. — Maya Angelou

Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration, and resentment. — Oscar Wilde

Often, the more money you make the more money you spend, that’s why more money doesn’t make you rich assets make you rich. — Robert Kiyosaki

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. — Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it’s the quality that guarantees all the others. — Albert Einstein

People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want. — Seth Godin

Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library. — Jim Rohn

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. David Brinkley. — Mike Van Hoozer

The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!. — Jennifer Egan

When we build on our strengths and daily successes instead of focusing on failures we simply learn more. — Tom Rath

You know, you don’t have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don’t need a college degree, you just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard. — Farrah Gray

If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. — Jim Rohn

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts. — Sun Tzu

Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re probably right. — Gary Hamel

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them. — Seth Godin

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. — Farrah Gray

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive, and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. — Maya Angelou

If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much. — Steve Jobs

The best way to predict your future is to create it. — Israelmore Ayivor

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. — Herman Melville

You have to work on the business first before it works for you. — Idowu Koyenikan

Change is not a four-letter word but often your reaction to it’s!. — Bernard Branson

Business has only two functions marketing and innovation. — Peter Drucker

A goal is a dream with a deadline. — Napoleon Hill

There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights. — Suntzu

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree. — William Blake

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions. — Tony Robbin

Don’t be addicted to money. Work to learn. don’t work for money. Work for knowledge. — Robert Kiyosaki

While others were dreaming about itI was getting it done. — Nathan W. Morris

You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked. — Sun Tzu

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. — Winston S. Churchill

Even if you are on the right track, You’ll get run over if you just sit there. — Will Rogers

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.

What would you do if you weren’t afraid?. — Sheryl Sandberg

My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people’s. — Peter Drucker

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse. — Walt Disney

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Gandhi. — Marilyn Suttle

Surviving a failure gives you more selfconfidence. Failures are great learning tools… but they must be kept to a minimum. — Jeffrey Immelt

Fake it until you make it! Act as if you had all the confidence you require until it becomes your reality. — John G. Miller

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. — Winston Churchill

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today. — Muhammad Yunus

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. — Steve Jobs

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible. — Henry Ford

Opportunities don’t happen. You create them. — Chris Grosser

Businessmen visions quotes

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out. Robert Collier. — Syahmedi Dean

Conform to the enemy’s tactics until a favorable opportunity offers, then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive. — Agu Jaachynma N.E.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents. — Criss Jami

Trying is winning in the moment. — Steven Gary Blank

You are not your resume, you are your work. — Seth Godin

Business in a combination of War and sport. — Andre Maurois

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders … They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out. — Bill Gates

Don’t delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. — Robert Thier

When you’re ready to quit, you’re closer than you think. Bob Parsons. — Andrew Vachss

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. — Colin R. Davis

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. — Oscar Wilde

Creative without strategy is called art. Creative with strategy is called advertising. — Jeff I. Richards

Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are. — Sun Tzu

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. — Simon Zingerman

One finds limits by pushing them. — Herbert Simon

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. — Zig Ziglar

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor. — John Ciardi

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard. — Sun Tzu

The cynic says,One man can’t do anything. I say,Only one man can do anything. — Criss Jami

Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. — T. Harv Eker

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. — Tom Rath

Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small. Tim Ferriss. — Dave Barry

Sometimes, it doesn’t hurt to ask. I have been in the news many times just by calling on the news channel and asking them about featuring my business. — Zig Ziglar

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. — Sun Tzu

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain. — Dora J. Arod

In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents. — Jayz

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power. — Robert Thier

I have a business appointment that I am anxious.. to miss. — Po Bronson

You can’t have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic. — Warren Buffett

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