When it comes to business, there are a lot of age-old adages that still hold true today. Many famous and successful entrepreneurs throughout history have shared their wisdom on what it takes to be successful. Here are some of our favourites.

The best ancient quotes

1. When you know your enemy is invincible, run and hide, or may do business with him. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

2. There’s no consciousness without senses and memories. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

3. Nature has certain mechanism to record all memories of every life being. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

4. I was in another universe with different laws and distinct truth. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

5. In my experience, stress is the cause of all injury and pain. — Tobe Hanson, The Four Seasons Way of Life:: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth

6. Privacy seems not an illusion for those who want to believe in secrecy principle. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

7. As Moses threw whatever in his hand on the ground, so does hand should do what it can to earn miracles. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

8. So live your life that those who speak ill of you will not be believed. — one of the ancient Greeks I’m on a hunt to find which one.

9. If you want to control others you will not be able to meditate. About that one point, be absolutely certain. — Osho, Ancient Music in the Pines: In Zen Mind Suddenly Stops

10. Changes is the mother of time. Absence of changes makes no time. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

11. The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; and so did I. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

12. Pride is the mother of arrogance. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

13. Growth is not an ancient gift but how you face your fear. — Sravani Saha Nakhro

14. The moles came bearing their lamps and then the most ancient and magical creature that ever danced beneath the moon was lost in darkness once more. — Robin Jarvis, The Oaken Throne

15. Most of us are ‘living the dream’ living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves. — William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

16. Oh dear…then they must already be on the march! We have to hurry and get to the Hamblings…before nightfall!’–Phillip Celeste from Curse of Ancient Shadows — Rod Tyson

17. Loneliness is a state of feeling that can be changed.People may still feel lonely even among the crowd. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

18. If no war in heaven, then defeat ain’t misery. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

19. We need to perceive ourselves as the special race.If not, beasts will perceive themselves as the chosen. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

20. In this life, when you deny someone an apology, you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

21. When you’ve succeeded, you’d say:’Indeed I’d to go through those hell before fit into all of this happiness. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

22. When you’re in bad mood, you find jerk on anywhere. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

23. Love permeates all and energizes life.Even evil has love. If not, she is dead. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

24. When you know your enemy is invincible, run and hide, or may do business with him. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

25. Nobody wants to tell a truth which harms himself. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

26. When you’ve succeeded, you’d say:’Indeed I’d to go through those hell before fit into all of this happiness. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

27. That’s me. ancient history.’ [Poseidon to Paul] — Rick Riordan

28. Borunia: Why do you want to be my friend?Samarga: I want to know if we can be friends. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

29. Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can’t understand many things unless you know something about astrology–the plays of Shakespeare and so on. — Steven Pinker

30. Part of water which is cooler always flows to below surface.I understand that hotheaded men always want to be noticed. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

31. And, in fine, the ancient precept, ‘Know thyself, ‘ and the modern precept, ‘Study nature, ‘ become at last one maxim. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

32. The old world told men merely about to live and to die.Today men think about defeating death and resurrection. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

33. ‘hercules, huh? Percy frowned. ”That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn––there he is.’ — Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

34. A very ancient and fish–like smell. — William Shakespeare

35. Hard. That was what he looked like. That was what you first noticed about him: a hard, chiselled face, like that that of some ancient Greek statue. — Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

36. I love the way you refuse my love. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

37. When people feel doubt in their hearts, a certainty might be felt in an ice cream. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

38. If no war in heaven, then defeat ain’t misery. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

39. In the future, eyeglasses see all directions simultaneously.To be able to use hemiscope, eyes and brain need to practice. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

40. Mind of a loving heart is the fountain of knowledge. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

41. Nuclear is clear so near to fear and tear. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

42. I am neither modern nor ancient–just contemporary, as every Guru was. If one is not relevant for today, what is the point? — Sadghuru

43. ‘the Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm ”O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.”’ — Michel de Montaigne

44. It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won. — William Shakespeare

45. Forget not the Sacred Sands…The grains that pass through Time’s ancient hands! — Nishi Singh, The Pearl of Immortality

46. Universal emptiness is mere concept.The fact is, there was never emptiness. — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

47. Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue — but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

48. When you feel sadness inside, wipe it away by cries and tears! — Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

49. The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies. — Narendra Modi

50. Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them. — Robert Harris, Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome

Conclusion

Ancient wisdom is timeless and often speaks to us in ways that modern knowledge can’t. Whether you’re looking for inspiration or just a reminder of the beauty of the past, these quotes about ancient times will make you appreciate the wisdom of our ancestors. May they bring you a sense of peace and appreciation, and fill you with the same reverence and wonder that they have inspired in us over the centuries.