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It is human nature to feel low sometimes and in the world of Business, the occasions on which you can feel low can be many. However, tough times teach you the most important lessons and it is exactly when you need to up your game. This list of Business quotes will let you know how entrepreneurs and leaders think and will motivate you in your pursuit of business success. The following business quotes will resonate with most of us if we are in the world of business. Even if we are not involved in business, they offer great life lessons.

100 Business Quotes that will keep you motivated

  1. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”- Colin R. Davis
  2. “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
  3. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”- Jim Rohn
  4. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”- Albert Einstein
  5. “Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”- Winston Churchill
  6. “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”- Tony Hsieh
  7. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”- Winston Churchill
  8. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”- Henry David Thoreau
  9. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”- Thomas Jefferson
  10. “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
  11. “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
  12. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”- Jim Rohn
  13. “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”- Anonymous
  14. “Do one thing every day that scares you.”- Anonymous
  15. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”- Michael John Bobak
  16. “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
  17. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”- Robert Kiyosaki
  18. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”- Steve Jobs
  19. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  20. “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
  21. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”- Walt Disney
  22. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”- Bruce Lee
  23. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”- Colin Powell
  24. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.”- Japanese Proverb
  25. “Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”- Unknown
  26. “If you can dream it, you can do it.”- Walt Disney
  27. “The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”- Unknown
  28. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at him.”- David Brinkley
  29. “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember–the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”- Zig Ziglar
  30. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.
  31. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”- Oprah Winfrey
  32. “There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”- Anthony Robbins
  33. “The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”- Aristotle Onassis
  34. “I failed my way to success.”- Thomas Edison
  35. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”- Estee Lauder
  36. “I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.”-Thomas Edison
  37. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”- Bill Cosby
  38. “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”- Nikos Kazantzakis
  39. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”- Thomas Edison
  40. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”- Vidal Sassoon
  41. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!” – Jonathan Winters
  42. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
  43. “Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.” – Henry Ford
  44. “Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
  45. “Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.” – Henry Ford
  46. “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.” – Unknown
  47. “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne
    “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
  48. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
  49. “Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things” – David Ogilvy
  50. “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
  51. “Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.” –Robert T. Kiyosaki
  52. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.”- Chris Grosser
  53. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”-John D. Rockefeller
  54. “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” – Zig Ziglar
  55. “Creative without strategy is called art. Creative with strategy is called advertising.” – Jeff  I. Richards
  56. “Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.” – Baltasa
  57. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napoleon Hill
  58. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
  59. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large” – Jeff Bezos
  60. “Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.” – Jim Rohn
  61. “Don’t be evil” –Larry Page
  62. “Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki
  63. “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
  64. “If I love you, what business is it of yours?” ― Johann wolfgang von Goethe
  65. “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity” ― Sun-Tzu, A Arte da Guerra
  66. “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.” ― Steve Jobs
  67. “Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” Theodore Isaac Rubin
  68. “I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.” Leonardo da Vinci
  69.  “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”- Michael LeBoeuf
  70. “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”- Bill Gates
  71. “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”- Andy Warhol
  72. “We’re all working together; that’s the secret.”- Sam Walton
  73. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”- Mark Twain
  74. “Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.”- Edward Gibbon
  75. “The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.”- Publilius Syrus
  76. “The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”- Brian Tracy
  77. “Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun”- Don Marquis
  78. “A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”- John D. Rockefeller
  79. “My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.”- Anthony Hopkins
  80. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”- Thomas A. Edison.
  81. “If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”- Elon Musk.
  82. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”- Winston S. Churchill
  83. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”- Herman Melville
  84. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”-Conrad Hilton
  85. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”- Jim Rohn
  86. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”- Herbert Bayard Swope
  87. “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
  88. “Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.”- Anonymous
  89. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” ― Sheryl Sandberg
  90. “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.” ― Dave Barry
  91. “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”- Barack Obama
  92. “Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” – Peter Drucker
  93. “Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it” – Ryan Allis
  94. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
  95. “I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”-Thomas Paine
  96. “Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.”- David Lynch
  97. “Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.” –Seth Godin
  98. “Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”– Tony Robbin
  99. “Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.” – Baltasa
  100. “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”- Charles F. Ketterin

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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.

  1. “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
  2. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
  3. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
  4. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
  5. “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
  6. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
  7. “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
  8. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
  9. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
  10. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
  11. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” – Helen Keller
  12. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
  13. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  14. “If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.” – Anonymous
  15. “If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” – John D. Rockefeller
  16. “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
  17. “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
  18. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” – Seth Godin
  19. “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Thomas J. Watson
  20. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
  21. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford

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Sam Altman is a prominent American entrepreneur and investor, best known as the former President of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator and venture capital firm, and as the founder of OpenAI, a leading artificial intelligence research organization. Altman was born on April 22, 1985, in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri.

Altman’s interest in technology started at an early age, and he taught himself to code while still in high school. He went on to study computer science at Stanford University, where he became involved in the startup scene and launched his first company, Loopt, a location-based social networking app, in 2005. Loopt quickly gained popularity and raised over $30 million in funding before being acquired by Green Dot Corporation in 2012.

After the acquisition, Altman joined the Green Dot team and worked as the company’s Chief Scientist for a year before leaving to start his next venture, a payments company called CardSpring. CardSpring was acquired by Twitter in 2014, and Altman joined Twitter as an executive for a short time before leaving to focus on his work at Y Combinator.

Altman became the President of Y Combinator in 2014, succeeding co-founder Paul Graham. Under his leadership, Y Combinator grew significantly and expanded its operations to include international locations in China and India. Altman also increased the size of the Y Combinator funding rounds and helped launch several successful startups, including Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit.

In 2015, Altman co-founded OpenAI with Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, and Wojciech Zaremba. OpenAI is a non-profit research organization focused on advancing artificial intelligence in a way that benefits humanity. The organization has made significant contributions to the field of AI, including developing the widely-used language model GPT-3.

In addition to his work at Y Combinator and OpenAI, Altman is also an active investor and advisor to several startups, including Airbnb, Stripe, and Reddit. He is known for his outspoken views on entrepreneurship, politics, and social issues, and has been featured in numerous publications and media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and CNBC.

Altman stepped down as President of Y Combinator in 2019 to focus on his work at OpenAI, where he currently serves as the CEO. Under his leadership, OpenAI has continued to make significant contributions to the field of AI, including developing cutting-edge models for natural language processing and computer vision. Altman is widely recognized as a leading figure in the tech industry and a champion of ethical AI development.

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20 Motivational Books & Essays Startup Leaders Should Read in 2020

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If you read about start-ups and their success rate, you’ll find that the failure rate is higher than 90%. Some research suggests how these rates are even higher than 95%.

For this very reason, it’s really important to have strong willpower to endure even the biggest obstacles in your journey.

Below we list out the best motivational books and essays available for you online.

1. The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris

While this book might even be considered outdated in our fast-paced online world, the principles shared in it will never go away.

The most important thing you’re going to learn is how to manage your schedule and how to delegate your tasks.

2. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Even though this book was published back in 1937, its core values and principles will never go away. This book is focused on the power of your mind and explores how you can better use your desires, ideas, and plans.

When you steer all these factors into a focused direction and add a massive amount of action to it, your success will be inevitable.

3. Rework by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried

This is another modern age book that shares a similar type of content and ideas as The 4-Hour Workweek.

The new-age work culture is not only focused on money, but on life quality and time management.

4. Be Obsessed Or Be Average by Grant Cardone

You might question the authenticity or even the legitimacy of many things and claims shared by Grant Cardone. One thing is for sure – he will get you fired up, especially if you’re reading his content for the first time.

5. Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence – and How You Can, Too by Gary Vaynerchuk

Gary is another author and businessman who is highly focused on taking massive action in order to reach success.

He’s also highly active on social media, and if you’re in the same boat, you might learn a lot. On top of that, he’ll give you a huge boost of energy and motivation.

6. The Dip by Seth Godin

When you start your start-up journey, there will be so many moments where you just want to quit.

Well, this book is highly focused on quitting. To be precise, it will teach you when to quit and when to stick!

7. 10 Success-Boosting Motivation Tips From Millionaire Entrepreneurs by John Rampton

In this great essay, the author analyses great ideas and business guidelines shared by the richest people in the world.

It’s great content to expand your views and gain more of the business-oriented wisdom.

8. How to Stay Motivated to Start a Business by Simone Johnson

This essay is focused on explaining why motivation is so important when starting your business. You’ll find out more about different types of motivation and how to sustain it in the long run.

9. Famous Entrepreneurs Who Started Late and Founded Multi-Million Dollar Empires

As an entrepreneur, you might ask yourself: Am I too old for this? Well, in this essay, you’ll learn about 8 famous people who started their start-up journey when they were older.

You have to remember to never quit and that it’s never too late to start!

10.  Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss

This is another great book by Tim in which he analyses the habits and beliefs of 101 highly successful people. It’s a great way to expand your views and gain wisdom. 

11. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

If you want to learn more about two different systems running inside of your head, you’ll find great value in this book. This is another great book for NPL enthusiasts.

12. Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Jean Greaves and Travis Bradberry

The overall success of your start-up will not depend on your skills or the amount of capital you pour into it. One extremely important factor is teamwork. This book will teach you how to recognize and better react to your own emotions and the emotions of others.

13. The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill

In this all-time classic work, you’ll learn extremely valuable lessons that are being taught across sixteen lessons.

14. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Every entrepreneur has a list of people influencing their startup, starting with employees all the way to investors. This book will improve your skills when it comes to influencing the behavior of others.

15. Awaken The Giant Within by Tony Robbins

What would be a motivational list without Tony Robbins? All jokes aside, if you need motivation and energy, you’ll find them in his books and videos.

He’s creating this type of content for decades, and he knows every bit of detail when it comes to motivation.

16. Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins

If you want to dive deeper into the journey of finding your purpose in life and to learn how to get rid of fear, this book is a must-read!

You’ll find great tips on not only how to set your goals but how to achieve them as well.

17. Business Adventures by John Brooks

This book is recommended both by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. These two know what they’re talking about when it comes to business.

Bill Gates has not only recommended this book, but he also regards it as his favorite book of all time.

In this book, you’ll find 12 different stories based on which you can learn 12 different key ideas about the business.

18. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike

In this book, the author is analyzing eight different CEO’s and their approach to management. Each one of them had a quite unique approach, which is extremely useful for a reader to learn more about thinking out of the box.

In the worst case, you’re going to expand your own box.

19. 15 Ways to Motivate Yourself to Write by MasterClass

Being a writer myself, I had to share this extremely useful content with all of my fellow colleagues around the world. Writing is frightening but never give up! Here are some other resources you can use to master the skill of writing, which is essential in any startup: ordering research papers online (when you need a case study or a business report), Grammarly (for checking the grammatical accuracy of your texts), Canva (to add a visual flair to your writing).

20. See You At The Top By Zig Ziglar

We had to add another sales author to our list. Somehow, sales authors have extremely valuable insight when it comes to motivation. This book will teach you not only that but how to live a more balanced and fulfilling life as well.

Conclusion

On the one hand, it’s harder to succeed as a start-up now that there is so much competition. On the other, these and millions of other resources enable you to learn faster and better than ever before! Be it for team leadership, soft skills, or business-running, you can learn anything from these great books and essays.

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