115 Best Motivational Business Quotes

We curated this list of 115 best motivational business quotes. Inspirational Quotes for small business success and business growth for professionals. Find Short Business Quotes, new sayings, and Quotes for customers. Start your business today, think like a business owner, and grow like a professional. Hope these positive quotes will help you to start a new business journey. 

Business Quotes

1. “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” -C.J. Walker
   
   
   
   
   

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. "Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow." -Anthony Robbins
   
   
3. "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
   
   
4. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau
   
   
5. “Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.”-Shonda Rhimes
   
   
6. “Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it’s starting a new business, whether it’s leaving home, whether it’s getting married, or whether it’s flying in space.”- Chris Hadfield
   
   
7. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” -Walt Disney
   
   
8. “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
   
   
9. “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” -Henry Ford
   
   
10. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” -Henry Ford

Short Powerful Business Quotes - Motivation

1. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”-Drew Houston
   
   
   

   
   
   
   
2. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” -Henry Ford
   
   
3. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”-John D
   
   
4. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”-Estée Lauder
   
   
5. “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happens.”-Wayne Huizenga
   
   
6. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”-Conrad Hilton
   
   
7. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”-Andy Rooney
   
   
8. “I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.” -Venus Williams
   
   
9. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”-Howard Schultz
   
   
10. Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin

Business Motivational Quotes

1.  It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you, because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.” -Mark Cuban
   
   
2. “Don’t find customers for your products; find products for your customers.”-Seth Godin
   
   
3. “Business is all about relationships, how well you build them determines how well they build your business.”-Brad Sugars
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. “One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.” -Michael Korda
   
   
5.  “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”-H. Jackson Brown
   
   
6. “Business is the salt of life.”-Voltaire
   
   
7. “The Golden Rule for Every Business is this: Put Yourself in your Customer’s Place.”-Orison Swett Marden
   
   
8. "There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team." -Jason Fried

Inspirational Business Quotes

• "Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it's about trading. Buying and selling." -Anita Roddick
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• "A small business is an amazing way to serve and leave an impact on the world you live in." -Nicole Snow
  
  
• "You don't build a business, you build the people, then people build the business." -Zig Ziglar
  
  
• "To be successful, you must act big, think big, and talk big." -Aristotle Onassis
  
  
• "A big business starts small." -Richard Branson
  
  
• “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” -Stephen Covey
  
  
• "The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time." -Joe Girard

Quotes about Business Growth

1. “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” -Mark Zuckerberg
   
   
2. “Successful entrepreneurs are lifelong learners who are constantly looking for ways to improve and grow.” -Unknown
   
   
   

   
   
   
   
   
3. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”– Napoleon Hill
   
   
4. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy
   
   
5. "Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." George Hérbert
   
   
6. “Great men are not born great, they grow great.” -Vito Corleone
   
   
7. “Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.”– William George

Starting a Business Quotes Motivational

1. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
   
   
2. “What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.” -Dave Thomas
   
   
3. “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
   
   
4. "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great" – Zig Ziglar
   
   
   

   
   
   
   
   
5. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”-Mark Twain
   
   
6. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” -Amelia Earhart
   
   
7. “Successful entrepreneurs know that the best way to predict the future is to create it.” -Peter Drucker
   
   
8. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” -Karen Lamb
   
   
9. “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” – Oprah Winfrey

Business Quotes Short - Inspiration

• “Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.” – William George Jordan
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
• “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” – Phil Knight
  
  
• “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” -Babe Ruth
  
  
• “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin
  
  
• "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur Ashe
  
  
• "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson

Business Quotes For Customers

1. "If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours." – Ray Kroc
   
   
2. "Until you understand your customers -deeply and genuinely -you cannot truly serve them." – Rasheed Ogunlaru
   
   
3. “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” -Lisa Stone
   
   
4. "One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others." – Lewis Carroll
   
   
5. "Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them." – Henry Ford
   
   
6. "If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune." – Jim Rohn
   
   
   

   
   
   
   
   
7. "The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people." – Tom Peters
   
   
8. "The purpose of business should be to make life better for people." – Unknown
   
   
9. Customer service is not a department, it's an attitude!" – Unknown
   
   
10. "Great customer service is a critical competitive advantage for a business." -Steve Benson

New Business Quotes And Sayings

1. “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.” -Josh James
   
   
   

   
   
   
   
   
2. "It's not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change." -Charles Darwin
   
   
3. “The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” -John D. Rockefeller
   
   
4. "Building a business is knowing how to do something. Being proud is to create something that will make a real difference in other people's lives." -Richard Branson
   
   
5. Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. Walter Scott
   
   
6. "Stop chasing money and start chasing the passion." -Tony Hsieh
   
   
7. "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -T.S. Eliot
   
   
8. “Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.” – Tony Hsieh
   
   
9. “Any time is a good time to start a company.” – Ron Conway

Success Quotes For Business

1. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” -Peter F. Drucker
   
   
   

   
   
   
   
   
2. “Timing, perseverance, and 10 years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” -Biz Stone
   
   
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. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” -David Brinkley
   
   
5. "Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
   
   
6. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” -Colin Powell
   
   
7. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” – Abraham Lincoln
   
   
8. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk
   
   
9. “There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there -you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee
   
   
10. “Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.” – Amelia Earhart
    
    
11. “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” – Julia Child
    
    
12. “Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” – Confucius
    
    
13. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” -Bill Gates
    
    
14. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill

Business Quotes Of The Day

1. "Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming." – Richard Branson
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. “Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”  -Thomas Edison
   
   
3. “You don’t need to be a genius or a visionary, or even a college graduate for that matter, to be successful. You just need framework and a dream.” – Michael Dell

Best Business Quotes

1. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. -Andy Warhol
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. “One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.” – Brian Tracy
   
   
3. If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. B. C. Forbes
   
   
4. “No great achiever-even those who made it seem easy-ever succeeded without hard work.” -Jonathan Sacks
   
   
5. “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Thomas Watson
   
   
6. “There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.” – Ronald Reagan
   
   
7. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do" -Steve Jobs

Small Business Quotes

1. “Small opportunities are often beginning of great achievements.”-Demosthenes
   
   
   

   
   
   
   
   
2. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing … is not starting something.” – Seth Godin
   
   
3. "When you support a small business, you support a dream." – Anonymous
   
   
4. "As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work." – Kevin McCarthy
   
   
5. "Spend time upfront to invest in systems and processes to make long-term growth sustainable." – Jeff Platt
   
   
6. "You build on failure. Use it as a stepping stone and close the door on the past. Don’t try to forget the mistakes, but don’t dwell on it." – Johnny Cash

Powerful Business Quotes

• “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” -Bernice Johnson Reagon
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
• “The heart and soul of a company is creativity and innovation.” – Robert Iger
  
  
• “Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.” -Roger Crawford
  
  
• “I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” – John D. Rockefeller

Positive Business Quotes

1. "Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again." – Richard Branson
   
   
   

   
   
   
   
   
2. “Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” – William Durant
   
   
3. "Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." – Roy T. Bennett
   
   
4. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin
   
   
5. "To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business." – J. Paul Getty

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