To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. — Aliko Dangote
A successful entrepreneur is one who is both successful in business and in life. — Pat Flynn
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. — Andy Warhol
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
Try to find a business that you can understand, that’s not particularly complicated, that has a successful long-term track record, makes an attractive profit and can grow over time. — Bill Ackman
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well. — Richard Branson
A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all. — Michael Leboeuf
If a business does well, the stock eventually follows. — Warren Buffett
The way to build a big business is to take care of people. — Tom Bilyeu
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. — John Welch
Short Successful Business Quotes
Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. — Mark Zuckerberg
In this business, it is about making an impact. — Randy Orton
The ability to network successfully can be one of the greatest assets in business. — Lewis Howes
What helps people, helps business. — Leo Burnett
Top 10 Successful Business Quotes
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
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. — Madam C. J. Walker
Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. — Walt Disney
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. — Bill Gates
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar
Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama
Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising. — Milton S. Hershey
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. — Norman Vincent Peale
Successful Business Image Quotes
My poor dad said, 'You need to know a lot about one speciality.' My rich dad said, 'You need to learn a little about a lot of things.'
Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration! — Thomas A. Edison
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. — Seneca
To achieve you need a to-do list. To achieve greatness you need a not-to-do list. Use this tip for your personal success and business goals. Start writing down aspirations you don’t need to get done right now and use as monthly moonshot goals. I prefer to call this a “not-yet-list.” It helps keep your “to-do-list” shorter without losing sight of a great idea. Eventually items from the not-yet-list move to the to-do-list.
Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion. — Shiv Khera
To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks. — Bill Gates
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Successful Business Woman Quotes
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. — Madeleine Albright
I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground. — Madam C. J. Walker
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. — Melinda Gates
I just want to be who I am. I think all women go through the belief that they need to be superwoman - that to be successful in any way, and I don't necessarily mean in business or anything, but just to be a successful person, you have to be superwoman. — Cindy McCain
Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success. — Arianna Huffington
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. — Melinda Gates
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live. — Anne Sweeney
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success. — Gloria Vanderbilt
Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard. — Caterina Fake
My best successes came on the heels of failures. — Barbara Corcoran
100 Inspirational Quotes
Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep — Benito Mussolini
My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power. — Paulina Rubio
Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood. — Bill Murray
No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. — George Lucas
Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are. — Tom Peters
I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude. — Yani Tseng
When we give 100% to every minute of every day, extraordinary things can happen. Dreams can turn into realities. — Chatri Sityodtong
We are a company that promotes 100% within the company. — James Sinegal
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. — Howard Ruff
Unless you have 100% customer satisfaction, you must improve. — Horst Schulze
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. — Marcus Aurelius
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. — Bruce Lee
The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition. — John D. Rockefeller
The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him. — Henrietta Mears
The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist. — Theodore Roosevelt
I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates. — John D. Rockefeller
First of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel that the thing he is doing is worthwhile; so worthwhile that he is willing to pay the price of success to attain distinction. — Branch Rickey
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. — Charles M. Schwab
Successful Business Owner Quotes
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top — Yvon Chouinard
If you think you can't, you're right. — Carol Bartz
Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure. — Donald Trump
Social media opens the floodgates to business owners to maximize their success. — Vladimer Botsvadze
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me. — Arianna Huffington
Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything. — William Rosenberg
If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100 percent from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement. — Kevin Systrom
To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game. — Robert Kiyosaki
Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics and that there are no easy shortcuts to success. Their companies need ethics carefully sewn into their fabric. — Vivek Wadhwa
Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries. — Jim Rohn
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. — Steve Jobs
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. — Barack Obama
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. — Zig Ziglar
The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow. — Ingvar Kamprad
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. — Ronald Reagan
If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient. — Gurbaksh Chahal
Successful Company Quotes
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself. — Brian Tracy
It is better to be alone than in bad company. — Unknown Author
I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful. I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company. — Ida Tarbell
The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company. — Masaaki Imai
The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers. — Ernest Thompson Seton
In a job negotiation, the implementation of that deal is your success that also causes the company to succeed. — Chris Voss
It’s one thing becoming successful, but it’s hard to stay that way. Who helped me? I helped myself. I have done every job in the company. — Estee Lauder
If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. — Lou Gerstner
An organization's strategy is simply its plan for success. It's nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to give itself the best chance to thrive and differentiate from competitors. — Patrick Lencioni
The role of design at a company is to allow you to recreate yourself, to allow your company to find a new way of success before the old way fails. — Mark Parker
Successful Businessman Quotes
You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye. — Konosuke Matsushita
The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top. — Harry S. Truman
My father was a very successful businessman, but he was ruined in the stock market crash. A big stockbroker jumped out the window and fell on his pushcart. — Jackie Mason
To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business? — Yisroel Salanter
I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful. — Ratan Tata
The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. — John Naisbitt
A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs. — J. Paul Getty
People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?"
do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance
of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire. — Kim Woo-jung
I think, as everyone knows, Charles Kushner is one of the most successful businessmen in the United States and one of the great philanthropists of this century. — Jared Kushner
Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever. — Li Ka-shing
Successful Entrepreneurs Quotes
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. — Barack Obama
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune. — Jim Rohn
Failure is success if we learn from it. — Malcolm Forbes
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. — Mark Zuckerberg
A talented entrepreneur with bad habits eventually becomes an employee. An average employee with great habits can eventually become a great entrepreneur. — Patrick Bet-David
The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others. — Masaru Ibuka
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. — Biz Stone
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do. — Seth Godin
Profitable Business Quotes
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. — David Ricardo
If one day we must sell something, first we want to turn it around and make it profitable. — Bernard Arnault
So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow. — Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Picking the right customer to sell to is one of the highest leverage things you can do to make more money. — Alex Hormozi
Our confidence in Tesla has grown as we've done research on what ride-sharing potentially could add. It could limit the risks significantly, it's a much more profitable business than electric vehicles. — Cathie Wood
Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life. — Lucretia Mott
The untold secret of McDonald’s is that when you sell a restaurant to a franchisee, sales typically go up a lot because the franchisees do a much better job managing the store. — Bill Ackman
No offer? No business. No life. Bad offer? Negative profit. No business. Miserable life. Decent offer? No profit. Stagnating business. Stagnating life. Good offer? Some profit. Okay business. Okay life. Grand Slam Offer? Fantastic profit. Insane business. Freedom. — Alex Hormozi
If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit. — Clement of Alexandria
But I would argue that the best businesses are the ones that are for-profit, sustainable and ethical so you can attract the best people. — Naval Ravikant
Successful Life Quotes
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. — Swami Vivekananda
Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work. — Jim Harbaugh
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. — Booker T. Washington
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido R Qubein
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose. — T. D. Jakes
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Failing for Success — Thomas A. Edison
Ideas are easy. Turning them into a successful product is hard. — Jeff Bezos
Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind. — Zig Ziglar
Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center. We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking. — Michael Porter
My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road. — Shahid Khan
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. — Harold Geneen
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere — Henry A. Kissinger
Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future. — Zig Ziglar
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people. — Thomas J. Peters
You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again. — Henry Ford
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing. — Thomas A. Edison
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