Best Motivational Quotes for Entrepreneurs and Business
1.) My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job. – Ted Turner 2.) Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. –Norman Schwarzkopf
3.) The golden rule for every businessman is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place. – Orison Swett Marden
4.) I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them! – C.J. Walker
5.)The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. – Debbi Fields
6.) Life is too complicated not to be orderly. – Martha Stewart
7.) The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. – Dennis Waitley
8.) Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson
9.) There is no royal, flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it. For if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard. – C.J. Walker
10.) Business is more exciting than any game. – Lord Beaverbrook
11.) Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. –Albert Einstein
12.) We are currently not planning on conquering the world. – Sergey Brin
13.) If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. – Bill Rancic
15.) It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by — Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. –Ren Mulford Jr.
16.) For all of its faults, it gives the most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. – Bill O’ Reilly
17.) A man should never neglect his family for business. – Walt Disney
18.) The only limits are, as always, those of vision. – James Broughton
19.) To think is easy. Acting is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.– Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth
20.) I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. – Donald Trump
21.) Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading: buying and selling. – Anita Roddick
22.) To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. – Tryon Edwards
23.) Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates
24.) Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel
25.) The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all but goes on making his own business better all the time. –Henry Ford
26.) The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. – Epictetus
27.) I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend-making. – B.C. Forbes
28.) The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything”. I say, “Only one man can do anything.” - John W. Gardner
29.) I feel that luck is a preparation meeting opportunity. – Oprah Winfrey
30.) If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. – Ingvar Kamprad
31.) You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance. –Lee Iacocca
32.) The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. – Laurence Sterne
33.) 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
34.) Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman. – George Soros
35.) Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want to be done because he wants to do it. – Dwight Eisenhower
36.) If you did not look after today’s business then you might as well forget about tomorrow. – Isaac Mophatlane
37.) The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. – Thomas J. Watson
38.) Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. – Babe Ruth
39.) Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing. – Magic Johnson
40.) Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. – James Thurber
41.) The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. – Carlos Castaneda
42.) The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. – Blaine Lee
43.) To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. – George Kneller
44.) To the degree we’re not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. – Peter McWilliams
45.) The enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. – John F. Kennedy
46.) Long-range planning works best in the short term. – Doug Evelyn
47.) The NBA is never just a business. It’s always business. It’s always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal. – Mark Cuban
48.) You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. – Joseph E. Levine
49.) A business has to be involved, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. – Richard Branson
50.) The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. – Peter F. Drucker
51.) No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others.. or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. –Calvin Coolidge
52.) Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. – Henry J. Kaiser
53.) Winning is not a sometimes 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 a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.– Vince Lombardi
54.) In all realms of life, it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It’s no different in the financial realm. – Suze Orman
55.) The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. – Confucius
56.) The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell. – Andrew Carnegie
57.) Hire character. Train skill. – Peter Schutz
58.) The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. – Bill Gates
59.) Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day. – Francis Gray
60.) Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum. –Jeffrey Immelt
61.) Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. – Napoleon Hill
62.) It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.– Charles Darwin
63.) The industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. –Charles Dickens
64.) I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
– Robert Bosch
65.) People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is a car or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps. – Mary Kay Ash