70 Best Motivational Business Quotes To Inspire You

Running a business is hard work, and it can be easy to get down or
lose your motivation. With that in mind, here are 70 quotes that I have
appreciated. I hope you find them insightful! I highlighted a few that
stood out to me (and I threw in a few funny ones for good measure).

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Norman Schwarzkopf

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. – Unknown

You are not your resume, you are your work. – Seth Godin

Beware of any enterprise requiring new clothes. – Henry Thoreau

One finds limits by pushing them. – Herbert Simon

If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late. – James Goldsmith

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard BransonTweet

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong. – Warren Buffett

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

There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them. – Seth Godin

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. – Thomas J. Watson

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. – Albert Einstein

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. – Theodore Roosevelt

Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is. – Seth Godin

Even if you are on the right track, You’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. – Jim Rohn

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

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. – Albert Einstein

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight Eisenhower

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. – Napoleon Bonaparte

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Sr. Thomas Watson

Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try. – Unknown

The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell. – Andrew Carnegie

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right! – Henry Ford

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. – Richard Branson

We generate fears while we sit. We over come them by action. Fear is natures way of warning us to get busy. – Dr. Henry Link

People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want. – Seth Godin

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. – Henry J. Kaiser

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel

A man should never neglect his family for business. – Walt Disney

Sometimes
when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly
and get on with improving your other innovations. – Steve Jobs

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. – Roy L. Smith

Business is more exciting than any game. – Lord Beaverbrook

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

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. – Cyril Northcote Parkinson/Parkinson’s Law.

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. – Oprah Winfrey

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death. – Seth Godin

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. – Unknown

My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job. – Ted Turner

The
man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much
he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a
dollar, is bound to succeed. – Henry Ford

For all of
its faults, it gives 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

Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day. – Gary Vaynerchuck

Victory goes to the player who makes the next–to–last mistake. – Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. – Donald Trump

Surviving a failure gives you more self–confidence. Failures are great learning tools… but they must be kept to a minimum. – Jeffrey Immelt

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. – Babe Ruth

The only way around is through. – Robert Frost

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. – John Naisbitt

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

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take – Wayne Gretzky

Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules. – Seth Godin

To the degree we’re not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. – Peter McWilliams

Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities. – Seth Godin

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. – George Kneller

Business in a combination of War and sport. – Andre Maurois

To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. – Tony Dorsett

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. – Oscar Wilde

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. – Aristotle

Winning
is not a sometime 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 habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi

There is no security on the earth, there is only opportunity. – General Douglas MacArthur

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. – Unknown

Hire character. Train skill. – Peter Schutz

For maximum attention, nothing beats a good mistake. – Unknown

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor. – John Ciardi

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats. – Howard Aiken

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.

A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor. – Unknown

The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you. – Bette Midler

One Bonus Quotes for You Which I love Most

Your time is precious, so don’t waste it living someone else life. – Steve Jobs

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