Are you putting up your own startup? Or are you a professional working for a well-known company? If you do, you’ll benefit greatly from these business quotes.
Business is a very serious and challenging endeavor. The stakes are high and the possibility of failing as a company or as a professional is very real. There are many things that one must balance in order to keep harmony at work — time and project management, planning and organization, marketing and branding, and so on. The list is almost endless.
Instead of (re)inventing the wheel, learn from the people who have made their mark by succeeding in business. Find out what wise words they can impart in these business quotes below.
Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career. — Ryan Freitas
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
Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop. — Jeffrey Zeldman
Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you. — Tony Hsieh
Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect. — Jack Dorsey
If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business. — Ray Kroc
Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless. — James Cash Penney, J.C.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. — Bill Gates
If you define yourself by how you differ from the competition, you’re probably in trouble. — Omar Hamoui
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
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Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. – Robert T. Kiyosaki
Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them. – Seth Godin
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business. – Bertie Charles Forbes
Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. – Theodore Roosevelt
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Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is. – Seth Godin
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose. – Dr. Seuss
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison
If you would like to know the value of money, try to borrow some. – Benjamin Franklin
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. – Denis Waitley
Done is better than perfect. – Sheryl Sandberg
The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Peter F. Drucker
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. – Warren Buffett
There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive. – Sophie Kinsella
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
You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. – Jim Stovall
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. – Charles F. Kettering
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Thomas Watson, Sr.
People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps. – Mary Kay Ash
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others…or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. – Calvin Coolidge
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. – Henry Ford
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