100 Business Quotes to Get Inspired

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Courage

• “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them” – Walt Disney
• “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing” – Walt Disney
• “A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for” – John A. Shedd
• “If you don’t have big dreams and goals, you’ll end up working for someone that does” – Unknown
• “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it” – Unknown
• “Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations” – Tim O’Reilly
• “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right” – Henry Ford
• “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create” – Oprah Winfrey
• “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical” – Howard Schultz
• “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And, most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary” – Steve Jobs
• “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes not to let my fears run me” – Arianna Huffington
• “Everything started as nothing” – Ben Weissenstein
• “The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is not to try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it” – Debbi Fields

Change

• “The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new” – Socrates
• “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late” – Reid Hoffman
• “Nothing works better than just improving your product” – Joel Spolsky
• “Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day” – Joel Spolsky
• “Anything that is measured and watched, improves” – Bob Parsons
• “Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can be your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else” – Sara Blakely
• “There are a lot of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what that is: to change the world” – Phil Libin

Constraints

• “Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let them guide you. Constraints drive innovation and force focus. Instead of trying to remove them, use them to your advantage” – 37 Signals
• “Tough times never last, but tough people do” – Robert H. Schuller
• “I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars – I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over” – Warren Buffet
• “You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions” – Steve Case

Support

• “Our chief want in life, is someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him, we are easily great.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others” – Mandy Hale
• “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be” – Reid Hoffman
• “Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea” – Mark Pincus
• “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team” – Reid Hoffman

Success

• “Don’t worry about being successful, but work towards being significant. The success will naturally follow” – Oprah Winfrey
• “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect” – Jack Dorsey
• “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do” – Steve Jobs
• “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue” – Josh James
• “Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement” – Golda Meir
• “Chase the vision not the money, the money will end up following you” – Tony Hsieh
• “Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors” – Chris Dixon
• “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen” – Wayne Huizenga
• “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success” – Biz Stone
• “You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good” – Peter Shankman
• “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it” – Estee Lauder
• “Diligence is the mother of good luck” – Benjamin Franklin
• “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance” – Steve Jobs

Strife

• “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly, who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming” – Theodore Roosevelt
• “Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us” – Angelo Sotria
• “Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you” – Mark Cuban
• “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning” – Bill Gates
• “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved” – Helen Keller
• “Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop” – Jeffrey Zeldman
• “No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the week” – Spencer Fry
• “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over” – Richard Branson

Failure

• “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work” – Thomas Edison
• “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once” – Drew Houston
• “The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow” – Ingvar Kamprad
• “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination” – Steve Case
• “I know that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying” – Jeff Bezos
• “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… Is not starting something” – Seth Godin

Motivation

• “Be so good they can’t ignore you” – Steve Martin
• “Be the change you wish to see in the world” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago” – Warren Buffett
• “Knowledge without action is meaningless” – Abu Bakr
• “The stars will never align, and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct course along the way” – Tim Ferriss
• “If you just work on stuff you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out” – Mark Zuckerberg
• “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen” – Scott Belskey
• “If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them” – Ryan Freitas
• “Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And, when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives” – Daniel H. Pink