Quote compilation posts are a great way to show off your reading list, provide some insight or advice, and generally keep things interesting. Plus, they can be easily shared on social media! Here are some of our favorite line quotes from business books that we think entrepreneurs will love. Enjoy!
“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.” – Tim O’Reilly
“There are two types of companies: those that work to create a new future and those that work to protect the past.” -John Maeda
“Almost any puzzle, when you solve it, makes you better in some way.
The best line quotes
1. The biggest regret a few years down the line would be…I wish I could. So dare to do what you dream of…NOW. — Vikrmn, 10 Golden Steps of Life
2. In any case, the goal is the same: to connect. — Nicolas Billon, Fault Lines: Greenland–Iceland–Faroe Islands
3. There’s a fine line between deserving and just desserts. — Stanley Victor Paskavich
4. –i’m stubborn not stupid. There’s a fine line between the two. Stupid people think they’re right when they’re wrong. Stubborn people know they’re wrong but won’t admit it. — K. Mitch
5. There are only so many times I can say, ‘I owe it to my offensive linemen, ‘ or, ‘The credit should go to my teammates, ‘ before it becomes run down. — Marshawn Lynch
6. Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African–American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day. — Mike Pence
7. When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing– — Stephen King, Bag of Bones
8. There’s a fine line between deserving and just desserts. — Stanley Victor Paskavich
9. She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue. — Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods
10. My father’s people… are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason–Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general. — Robert Duvall
11. Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential. — Mollie Marti
12. O it’s Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy ‘ow’s your soul/But it’s thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll. — Rudyard Kipling
13. You don’t get strong by standing at the finish line, you get strong with every step you take to get there. — Toni Sorenson
14. If I wasn’t so lazy, or if I had a roadie, I’d have a line of guitars on stage. I’d have a lap steel and a nylon string up there, but who wants to keep up with all that? — Steve Young
15. –i’m stubborn not stupid. There’s a fine line between the two. Stupid people think they’re right when they’re wrong. Stubborn people know they’re wrong but won’t admit it. — K. Mitch
16. The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for. — Tim Ferriss
17. Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war–a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy. — Omar Bradley
18. I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical. — Norm Macdonald
19. Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you’re putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy. — Robert Griffin III
20. They’re feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying. — Ray Nagin
21. Iq’s are a combination of eyes, and queues. Would you wait in line to see my goat show? Of course you wouldn’t, because the line is invisible. — Will Advise, Nothing is here…
22. Love didn’t run on logic. It didn’t follow neat lines or a list of priorities. — Nora Roberts
23. Art, and sadness, which last forever. — Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
24. It’s a family that’s loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even. — Nicolas Cage
25. I want people on the front line to be proud of what they’re doing and give themselves permission to finish things in ways that they can be proud of. — Satya Nadella
26. Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general–as we all do in our dreams–I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female. — Rose Tremain
27. Let’s hope that someone on his team realizes that respect for human rights must be a core u.s. foreign policy value, and not just a reality show line. — Phil Robertson
28. Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind. — Toni Morrison
29. On some days it felt like we owned the Earth, and the only place left to expand to was the next planet down the line. — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Numbercaste
30. Sarah Palin uses me as a laugh line in her stump speeches. If you’re willing to turn me into a joke, you should also be willing to talk to me. — Rachel Maddow
31. The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing. — Oscar Wilde
32. Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. — Mark Twain
33. Jamie: You’re acting like a crazy person, what’s going on? Landon: Right now, you’re straddling the state line. Jamie: OK… Landon: You’re in two places at once. — Nicholas Sparks
34. When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it’s like you’ve thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity. — Reggie Jackson
35. Jamie: You’re acting like a crazy person, what’s going on? Landon: Right now, you’re straddling the state line. Jamie: OK… Landon: You’re in two places at once. — Nicholas Sparks
36. It’s a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock. — Thom Yorke
37. Invisible lines, unbreakable rulesCould all bend at the mercy of love — Michele L. Rivera, Never the Same
38. I just wanted to say we’re in a red zone here, i know the super bowl is today. we’re at the 10–yard line––and you know, a touchdown is the only way to win this thing right now. — joe biden
39. Life remains unchangedtill a leap of faithruns towards heaven — Santosh Kalwar, Three Line Poetry #21
40. As Antiquus’s son, I was next in line to be the leader of my village… But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action. — Tony DiTerlizzi, A Hero For WondLa
41. Waiting rooms were made for books–of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone’s favorite, the john. — Stephen King
42. Tonight I can write the saddest lines…Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her. — Pablo Neruda
43. I’ve always straddled a weird line–there’s a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I’m the outsider who’s on the inside. — Zooey Deschanel
44. The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. — Ross Macdonald
45. [first line]’The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous. — J.D. Robb, Vengeance in Death
46. In my real movie–going days, which were the thirties, you didn’t stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night. — Orson Welles
47. ‘my intellect tells me ”read between the lines.. No need to humor something that is what it is and is not what it was.’ — Phil Thersby
48. Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. At last i believe we’re on the five–yard line. it has taken a lot of noise and a lot of rhetoric to get us here, depsite all of thAt we are very close. — Mitch Mcconnell
50. As climate change bites hard, the risk increAses for farmers, anything that can improve the risk management benefits food supply and hAs a direct bottom line impact. — Paul Ryan
Conclusion
We hope these amazing quotes about life have inspired you to make the most of every moment and to appreciate the beauty of life. Life is too short not to make the most of it. So, take the time to enjoy life and all the wonderful moments it has to offer.