What if you could ask Richard Branson or Bill Gates any question on Business Success? Here’s the next best thing! 106 Business Success Quotes from great and influential leaders. These quotes about success will inspire you. Here’s to your success!
106 Business Success Quotes
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts – Richard Branson
2. A dream doesn’t become reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination and hard work – Colin Powell
3. A goal is a dream with a deadline – Napoleon Hill
4. A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one’s work. The pride that makes business an art – Henry L. Doherty
5. A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all – Michael LeBoeuf
6. A successful business requires one simple thing: Passion – Teresa Collins
7. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him – David Brinkley
8. Action is the foundational key to all success – Pablo Picasso
9. All progress takes place outside the comfort zone – Michael John Bobak
10. Always deliver more than expected – Larry Page
11. Be stubborn about your goals and flexible about your methods – Anonymous
12. Believe you can and you’re halfway there – Theodore Roosevelt
13. Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation – Milan Kundera
14. Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is – Seth Godin
15. Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again – Richard Branson
16. Do one thing every day that scares you – Anonymous
17. Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great – John D. Rockefeller
18. Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning – Robert Kiyosaki
19. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit – Napoleon Hill
20. Every effective winning strategy is mapped out by focusing on the desired end goal – Wayne Chirisa
21. Fail often so you can succeed sooner – Tom Kelley
22. Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners – Robert T. Kiyosaki
23. Failure is not the opposite of success, it is part of success – Arianna Huffington
24. Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people – Steve Jobs
25. Hidden skills and knowledge are the essence of a successful small business. Unleash and leverage what is locked inside your head to help others while helping yourself – Sarah Gerdes
26. I don’t embrace excuses. I embrace solutions – Jon Taffer
27. I never dreamed about success, I worked for it – Estee Lauder
28. If people like you they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they will do business with you – Zig Ziglar
29. If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late – Reid Hoffman
30. If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will – Bob Hooey
31. If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary – Jim Rohn
32. If you can dream it, you can do it – Walt Disney
33. If you want more money in your business, stop waiting on other people, start serving more people, start sharing your story, start loving your work, start giving and you’ll start receiving – Howard Britt
34. If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful – Pierre Omidyar
35. In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later – Harold Geneen
36. 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.
37. It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up – Vince Lombardi
38. Make the customer the hero of your story – Anonymous
39. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art – Andy Warhol
40. Market rewards you as per your perception – Vijay Kedia
41. Never start a business to make money, start to make a difference – Marie Forleo
42. Nothing works better than just improving your product – Joel Spolsky
43. Opportunities don’t happen. You create them – Chris Grosser
44. Our work is the presentation of our capabilities – Edward Gibbon
45. Owning a business means you’re facing your business everyday as you fail and soar, sometimes simultaneously – Mindy Schoeneman
46. Patience. This is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves – J. Paul Getty
47. People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it and what you do simply proves what you believe – Simon Sinek
48. People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do – Rob Siltanen
49. Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first – Frederick B Wilcox
50. Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers – Florence Nightingale
51. Sell the problem you solve not the product – Anonymous
52. Show up early, stay late, do your best, always say thank you, give people more than they expect and follow up – Shep Hyken
53. Showing up is important and it is a big part of becoming successful – Andy Albright
54. Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business – Zig Ziglar
55. Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion – Tony Hsieh
56. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value – Albert Einstein
57. Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently – Marie Forleo
58. Success in business does not depend on what you say, what you hear, what you feel, what you see. It depends on what you do – Selwyn D. Goodwin
59. 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
60. Success is not built on success, its built on failure, its built on frustration, sometimes its built on catastrophe – Sumner Redstone
61. Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals – Jim Rohn
62. Success is not about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives – Michelle Obama
63. Success is not final, failure is not fatal. it is the courage to continue that counts – Winston Churchill
64. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful – Albert Schweitzer
65. Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable – Coco Chanel
66. Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out – Robert Collier
67. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm – Winston Churchill
68. Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do – Anonymous
69. Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure – Soichiro Honda
70. Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better – Jim Rohn
71. Take risks if you succeed, you will be happy, if you fail, will be wiser – Agent Steven
72. The customers may not always be right, but they are always the customer. So, let the customer be wrong with dignity and respect – Shep Hyken
73. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra – Jimmy Johnson
74. The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer’s place – Orison Swett Marden
75. The heart and soul of a company is creativity and innovation – Robert Iger
76. The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do – Anonymous
77. The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary – Vidal Sassoon
78. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty – Winston Churchill
79. The purpose of a business is to create customers who create customers – Shir Singt
80. The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well – John D. Rockefeller Jr
81. The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows – Aristotle Onassis
83. The strongest factor for success is self-esteem, believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it – Anonymous
84. The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first, improve yourself – Idowu Koyenikan
85. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing – Walt Disney
86. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure – Colin Powell
87. 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
88. There is no such thing as high returns without risk – Gerry Schwartz
89. There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team – Jason Fried
90. Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out – John Wooden
91. To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart – Sir Thomas Watson
92. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme – Aliko Dangote
93. To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success – Henry J. Heinz
94. To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business – J. Paul Getty
95. When it gets difficult is often right before you succeed – Chris Garrett
96. When you satisfy your clients, they will satisfy your business – Awolumate Samuel
97. When you think about quitting, think about why you started – Anonymous
98. Whether it’s marriage or business, patience is the first rule of success – William Feather
99. Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization – Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
100. You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in – Trip Hawkins
101. You don’t build a business, you build people and then people build the business – Anonymous
102. You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it – Oprah Winfrey
103. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take – Wayne Gretzky
104. Your business values can make you soar above the competition – Doris Perdue-Johnson
105. Your Core Values are the “glue” that holds your business together – Doris P. Johnson
106. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning – Bill Gates
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