Business Quotes

The Top 30 Most Inspirational Business Quotes for Entrepreneurs

1. "Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities."

Walter Scott

2. "There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them."

Seth Godin

3. "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

Theodore Roosevelt

4. "The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork."

Igor Sikorsky

5. "What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed."

Dave Thomas

6. "Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it."

William Durant

7. "The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works."

Jeff Bezos

8. "When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue."

Josh James

9."Nothing works better than just improving your product."

Joel Spolsky

10. "A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."

Jeff Bezos

11. "Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop."

Jeffrey Zeldman

12."It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you."

Jason Cohen

13. "Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it’s starting a new business, whether it’s leaving home, whether it’s getting married, or whether it’s flying into space."

Chris Hadfield

14. "If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever."

Sam Walton

15. "There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second."

Jeff Bezos

16. "Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon."

David Ogilvy

17."No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit."

Andrew Carnegie

18. "You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing."

Steve Ross

19. "If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail."

Jeff Bezos

20. "If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion."

Elon Musk

21. "The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."

Ambrose Bierce

22. "Business can be a source of progressive change."

Jerry Greenfield

23. "You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple."

Adena Friedman

24. "Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight."

Henry R. Luce

25. "If you're not learning, then you're stagnant. If you're stagnant, then you're not evolving and the business isn't progressing."

Seth Rollins

26. "I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress."

Mark Zuckerberg

27. "The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'"

Jeff Bezos

28. "No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management."

Bill Terry

29. "Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation."

Milan Kundera

30. "A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all."

Michael LeBoeuf