We present you with 63 business quotes to inspire all your entrepreneurial efforts – spoken by top entrepreneurs and thinkers for those aspiring to become ones.
Hopefully, these business-related words of wisdom will transform the way you think about business, marketing, success, innovation, and more.
General Business Quotes
1. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ” – Henry Ford
2. “Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” – Milan Kundera
3. “It’s much easier to double your business by doubling your conversion rate than doubling your traffic.” – Bryan Eisenberg
4. “A business idea is just another idea. But an idea backed by a strong feasibility, a thorough business plan and a smart team is no longer an idea. It’s now a solid business opportunity worth pursuing.” – Ajaero Tony Martins
5. “You are out of business if you don’t have a prospect.” – Zig Zagler
6. “Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.” – Brian Chesky
7. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson
8. ”It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” – Warren Buffett
9. “Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.” – Karl Marx
10. “There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” – Sam Walton
11. “My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.”
Marketing and Business Quotes
12.. “Ignoring online marketing is like opening a business but not telling anyone.” – Anonymous
13. “Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.” – Steuart Henderson Britt
14. “We need to stop interrupting what people are interested in and be what people are interested in.” – Craig Davis
15. “Don’t find customers for your product. Find products for your customers.” – Seth Godin
16. “Sell the problem you solve. Not the product you make.” – Unknown
17. “People spend money when and where they feel good.” – Walt Disney
18. “Marketing wants ‘Mr. Right’ but Sales but wants ‘Mr. Right Now’.” – Unknown
19. “Make your marketing so useful people would pay you for it.” – Jay Baer
20. “Marketing without data is like driving with your eyes closed.” – Dan Zarrella
21. “Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.” – David Packard
22. “You can’t just place a few ‘Buy’ buttons on your website and expect your visitors to buy.” – Neil Patel
23. “It’s much easier to double your business by doubling your conversion rate than doubling your traffic.” – Bryan Eisenberg
24. “Personally, I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms.” – Dale Carnegie
25. “If you can’t explain it to a 6-year old, you don’t know it yourself.” – Albert Einstein
26. “Master the topic, the message, and the delivery.” – Steve Jobs
Business Quotes About Success
27. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
28. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
29. “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” – Ray Goforth
30. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
31. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
32. “I failed my way to success.” – Thomas Edison
33. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
34. “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” – Tony Robbins
35. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.
36. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.” – Oprah Winfrey
37. If you want to break the wall between nations, you should bring your words to the point. – Cory Neal from TheWordPoint
38. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
39. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
40. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
41. “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” – Thomas J. Watson
42. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
43. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
Business Quotes About Innovation
44. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville
45. “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.” – Anonymous
46. “If you’re looking for the next big thing, and you’re looking where everyone else is, you’re looking in the wrong place.” – Mark Cuban
47. “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – General George Patton
48. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
49. “Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch, Former CEO of General Electric
50. “Holding back technology to preserve broken business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.” – Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
51. “I think that the most important issue that will reshape our lives in the years ahead will be how man-made and artificial intelligence compete and work together.” — Ray Dalio
52. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” – Scott Belsky
53. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” – Guy Kawasaki
54. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
55. “Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” – George Kneller
56. “It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date.” – Roger von Oech
57. “The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” – Nolan Bushnell
Inspirational Business Quotes
58. “A year from now, you’ll wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
59. “Don’t settle. Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it.” – Chris Brogan
60. “Do or do not; there is no try.” – Yoda
61. “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
62. “If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough.” – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
63. “Failure is an option.” – Matthew Schwartz
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