101 Inspirational Business Quotes For 2020

Business quotes by the business people themselves. No one else has the wisdom of experience to tell you what works and what doesn’t. But if you’re serious about being successful, you better know what works.

Now I’m on a mission to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs.

So the spirit of 2020 is to be inspired by other people who work hard and have a lot of great ideas to make businesses even better for us to work in.

101 Inspirational Business Quotes

This list includes the top business quotes for entrepreneurs, business owners, entrepreneurs, CEOs, Chief Executive Officers and other related business owners. The business-related quotes can be useful for anyone who wants to build a business or wants to help other businessmen.

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Gary Vaynerchuck

When you’re in the midst of life and work, think about what you could really be leaving behind. That’s more important than any of the other stuff we talk about.

Over the years I have developed a great understanding for what makes a brand valuable. Brands mature over time, as they do with a marriage. The bond you feel with your brand is different from when you first met the brand. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

Richard Branson

-“A business must be based on creativity, it needs to be fun, and it must be about the people.”

In a recent interview for Entrepreneurs “How to Start a Business” TV show, Richard Branson had a few interesting things to say about becoming rich and keeping on being rich.

If you don’t dream, you’re not going to achieve anything.

Warren Buffet

Warren Buffett says that a business manager should do a very few things right so that he has room for improvement in things that he gets wrong.

The tide of change is slow, but it can be a powerful force in our lives. We can wait for it and plan for it, but it will happen nonetheless, and it will change us whether we like it or not.

Oprah Winfrey

I felt that luck was the preparation for opportunity.

There is no such thing as failure. It’s life trying to move us in another direction.

Henry David Thoreau

If your new business is not working, then you’re going to have to change it up.

If you are too busy to be looking for success, you are likely not going to find it.

Thomas Watson

I can’t believe anyone would say something like this in a conversation with the Dalai Lama.

If you are successful, you need to have your heart in your business, but you also need your business to be in your heart because business doesn’t come by itself.

Seth Godin

I’ve long believed that change is inevitable. Growth, and therefore change, is necessary in order to survive. The goal is not survival, however. The goal is transformative success.

Your resume is just a brief description of what you’ve done and a picture of your headshot. To me, it says
nothing about your potential, strengths and weaknesses. Your resume is just a snapshot of you and your ‘work’. Therefore, it should
be brief, to the point and easy to read. Focus on doing work that matters and you’ll build a better resume.

As a startup founder, your business plan should be a living, breathing thing that is constantly changing and growing. It should be a combination of your vision, mission, and values.

I know what I want, I just don’t want what I know. I don’t want my old phone because my friends have new ones now.

Great ideas will always be unpopular. They need to be validated through conversation to gain traction.

Jim Rohn

Either modify your dreams or magnify your skills to make them bigger, better, more impressive.

Some people will think they should live smaller lifestyles because they have a lower paying job, or because they do not earn enough to support themselves.

If you’re not willing to risk the ordinary, you’ll have to settle for the usual.

Zig Ziglar

Business owners and managers ought to get excited about customer complaints. Complaining customers represent great opportunities to improve their businesses.

I know I have said this before, but I will say it again: There will be people who criticize your work. But I guess that’s life. That is life in the big, wide world. So just don’t let critics get in the way.

Robert Kiyosaki

If there is more fear of losing than there is excitement of winning, you are not doing anything valuable for yourself.

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people do not make mistakes.

This is the best quote from one of the best financial books I’ve read. Don’t be addicted to money. Work to learn. don’t work for money. Work for knowledge. We are human, we are not meant to be machines. We live for learning, we learn to live.

My current savings amount is around $500 – so I’m trying to get to $1k.

That’s it. Let me know if you have any questions.

A passive income is one where your income comes from investment. It gives you the luxury of being able to choose the timing of your income. It reduces your job of working for money. It is a great source for people to live on, but it doesn’t necessarily make your life simple. Your life will be more complex when money is passive.

Steve Jobs

– Steve Jobs was not overnight. He has been in the business for decades.

– It takes a long time to make a product and a business successful.

– If you look closely, most successes have been overnight.

– And the success of the product is not directly dependent on the speed through which the success is achieved.

You don’t love something if you don’t want to improve it. You don’t even want to maintain it in the case of other people.

I feel that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

Jeff Bezos

If you’re competitor focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer focused allows you to be more pioneering.

Be careful what you’re asked to do, or even suggest, at work. Even if you want to, you shouldn’t make yourself into the target of criticism from your co-workers.

When I first started working in retail, I worked for a large retail chain where, with a bit of trial and error, I discovered that the store staff really cared about each other. Their customers were important to them, and they cared about the customers.

What happens is that they create what is called a “loan-to-value” ratio. They basically put in the loan and then they can charge you whatever they want for the loan. You don’t even have to have a down payment or anything else. It’s just, “You can go on vacation whenever you want to.” They’re basically giving you a loan so that you can go on vacation. When I’m walking by that bank, I’m just so disgusted.

Bill Gates

Microsoft wasn’t the only company that made the mistake of becoming a one-product company. Many others have.

Bill Gates says that success is a terrible teacher. It makes smart people think that they can’t lose.

People who pay for my solution are the ones who have the greatest need for it. The more dissatisfied they are, the more value I’m going to get out of them.

Henry Ford

You should not be afraid to invest in yourself. You never know, the dollar invested in your education, training, or a business might return a hundred fold in the future.

There is one rule we can apply to everything in the world (and your life): it’s the rule of production – the rule of taking what you have and making more of it. If you want to be successful in the business world, you have to follow this rule.

If you have a service business with a customer focus you are never going to have to worry about profits because if you give them a good experience or solve their problem they are going to come back and you will grow.

I couldn’t discover that anyone knows much about anything at all, much less about the future.

Farrah Gray

The former business owner gave advice to young students and graduates and offered that they shouldn’t wait to start making money as they will only be limiting their success.

It’s often tough to get ahead or to build a good reputation, but if you keep working hard, you’ll eventually be noticed or recognized.

Maya Angelou

People will forget even if you do things well. But people remember emotional connection that you made with them in a nice way.

Here is an example from the second book I mention.

I believe in doing what I can to find happiness in whatever I can do to find happiness in whatever I can do to make the world better than it was before I did that.

The biggest thing is attitude. If you can change it, change it. If you can’t change it, you need to change that attitude.

Walt Disney

I believe that we can quit talking and begin doing something instead of just complaining.

You can accomplish any goal if you have the courage to persevere.

Success in any business (or in life) is based on hard work. If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse. (Walt Disney has said at least three times this is what he has in mind when he says this.)

You can use the same basic structure for each phrase.

Many people dream of building a truly great place like Disney World. But it takes many people to make a dream a reality.

The idea of building a business is to bring in money and not to neglect the family.

I thought Disney was a great example of success based on hard work, no doubt about it.

Winston Churchill

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Successful people are always moving forward. They don’t get stopped. They keep trying.

We are not here to make a living by what we get, but to make a life by what we give.

The best thing that you can do when you are going through Hell is to keep going.

Miscellaneous Business Quotes

When you give up your power to your enemies, you give up the chance to truly be the most powerful.

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans when you should be living life with no plans.

One of the most important things in business is showing up. You must be present and active in your business.

I wonder if there isn’t a life lesson for me in this quote. I want to be a better person so I can be more of a “what I might have been”!

Jefferson was very much aware of the fact that when you are working hard, you will receive more luck than if you are not working hard.

Today is what really matters. Yesterday is just a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision. So don’t let all your focus today be on the past, but on what is happening and what you can do about the future.

When you want something done, and someone else wants to do it, you need to be clear about what you want done so that you can get them to do it.

Napoleon was always making mistakes in the beginning of his career.

What can a businessman do to promote his products? How can a businessman build a strong business? The answer is marketing and advertising.

I feel very lucky to have a life of travel, adventure, and discovery. It is such a privilege to experience the world and its people.

A winner thinks of what they have won and how they are going to enjoy the win. A loser thinks of what they haven’t won and what they would have done if they had won.

As long as you are working on your passions, you can have plenty of opportunities to work hard at work worth doing.

We all know that the number one fear is what if, but Dr. Link goes a step further by saying that what if happens when we are idle and not taking action. We can overcome our fears by getting up and doing something.

I recommend the book for those who are trying to find the path to peace in the world today.

If you see a political party, it’s already too late.

One must not give up at the first difficulty.

To work hard and/or endure much is the same thing. What we do determines whether we are strong or weak, whether we are miserable or happy.

You must change yourself, if you want the world to change.

Even if you are on the right track you will get crushed if you just sit there.

Ted Turner didn’t believe that his son should work in the family business. Instead, he wanted him to go off and be an ‘entrepreneur’.

A lot of people have asked me how do I get to work at the White House? My message is simple:
You can work at the White House if your character is good enough.

Miscellaneous Business Quotes (78-85)

The current system is rigged in favor of the privileged few. They take away your money and give it to the government. The government takes the best jobs and gives them to their friends. The middle class doesn’t have a chance. In the end, they can either give up or get busy.

The American president has been criticised for his use of big, sweeping statements which, it is claimed, are often untrue.

An action can be as easy as wanting it to be. But it can be very difficult to do something if we don’t have the confidence in it.

You’ll win if you use what you’ve learned yesterday and use it today.

There’s no other place where success comes before work than in the dictionary.

In the end, business can be a combination of a lot of other things.

Successful people often have failures in business. They learn from those failures. They don’t have more failures in business. They have fewer failures in business.

The best way of being creative is by looking at things differently and re-imagining the world.

Miscellaneous Business Quotes (86-97)

I’m not too sure what Aristotle meant by that but I think he meant that the job is distracting and you should be doing something you enjoy, not what your boss wants.

Winning is an all-time thing; you don’t win only sometimes, you don’t do things right only sometimes, you do them right all the time. Winning is just a habit, unfortunately, so is losing.

If you are not good at succeeding, it is best to find something that motivates you and inspires you.

You can never know too many people, and you never know too much about other people, if you want to succeed in life. People are unpredictable, and we will never know the motive of an enemy. We are going to miss many things if we close one door of our lives.

Early to bed and early to rise is probably a sign of low skill jobs.

You should only hire experienced developers and try to train their skills to be better.

If your life is on the line it is better to fail at originality than succeed at imitation.

If you want to get somewhere, you need to do things and take risks. You don’t need to be afraid of failing; you need to be afraid of not trying. The good news is that failure is a part of the process and a necessary part of being creative. It’s one of the best teachers.

If we don’t give up we will overcome the difficulty and succeed. We need to be brave and have self-confidence.

You should have the opportunity to do what you want to do. You create your own opportunities.

Most people think that if they find something that they really love, they will continue to find it even if it takes much time and effort.
However, if you find something you love and you are not worried about what is in the future, then those things that you find will become great once it becomes a part of your life.

97. 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 do not trust that you can succeed.

Unknown Business Quotes

98. “Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try.” What if everyone decided to do that? I wonder what would happen to the world.

99% of all the mistakes we make are because we’re busy trying to plan and think through our lives.

It’s much better to have something done today than to have it done tomorrow.

Meetings are events at which people spend most of their time talking about the time they don’t spend actually doing work.

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