Business is all about innovation, creativity, and perseverance. Success in business requires a combination of these qualities along with a positive mindset and an unwavering commitment to achieving your goals. The following list of 21 quotes will inspire and motivate you to excel in your business endeavors.
- “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
- “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
- “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
- “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
- “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “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
- “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
- “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
- “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” – Helen Keller
- “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.” – Anonymous
- “If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” – John D. Rockefeller
- “The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
- “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” – Seth Godin
- “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Thomas J. Watson
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
- “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
