1,000 Motivational Business Quotes To Inspire Success (2023)

1. “The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand

2. “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”

3. “Failure is success in progress.” – Albert Einstein

4. “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” – Dale Carnegie

5. “The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.”

6. “You are not your resume, you are your work.” – Seth Godin

7. “An obstacle is often a stepping stone.”

8. “Happy employees lead to happy customers, which leads to more profits.” – Vaughn Aust, COO, Gemini

9. “Even if you are on the right track, You’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers

10. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader” – John Quincy Adams

11. “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good” – Paul Rand

12. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” —Coco Chanel

13. “We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” — Albert Einstein

14. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning” – Bill Gates

15. “They succeed, because they think they can.” – Virgil

16. “Chase the vision not the money, the money will end up following you” – Tony Hsieh

17. “Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share.”― Ginni Rometty

18. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

19. “All our dreams can come true; if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

20. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” —Frederick Douglass

21. “Every problem is a gift — without problems we would not grow.” – Tony Robbins, motivational speaker and writer

22. “If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.”

23. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”

24. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki

25. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

26. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein

27. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau, essayist, poet, and philosopher

28. “Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.” — Meg Whitman

29. “Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you” – Mark Cuban

30. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

31. “Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.”

32. “If you can dream it, you can do it.”

33. “An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.” — David Karp

34. “Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself.” ―Jason Fried

35. Bo Schembechler: “The Team! The Team! The Team!”

36. Thomas Edison: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

37. “Satisfaction is a rating. Loyalty is a brand.”

38. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”

39. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” — Larry Page, co-founder of Google

40. “You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.” — George Lorimer

41. “A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for” – John A. Shedd

42. “Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.”

43. “If you define yourself by how you differ from the competition, you’re probably in trouble.” — Omar Hamoui, co-founder of AdMob

44. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.

45. “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.” ―Mortimer J. Adler

46. “The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.”

47. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over” – Richard Branson

48. “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” — Lisa Stone, co-founder and CEO of BlogHer

49. “In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.” – Montesquieu

50. “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” – Julia Child

51. “Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”

52. “Great companies are built on great products.” – Elon Musk

53. “What is not started will never get finished.”

54. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

55. “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier, author

56. “Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, trans-formative success is.” – Seth Godin

57. “The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow”

58. “Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.” — Gary Vaynerchuk

59. “It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.” – Mahatma Gandhi

60. “Stick to your true north― build greatness for the long term.”―Ruth Porat

61. “It’s very easy to be different but very difficult to be better.” – Jonathan Ive

62. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure” – Colin Powell

63. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ―Winston Churchill

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

65. “Live each day as if your life had just begun.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German writer

66. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair, real-estate developer

67. “To follow, without halt, one aim: that’s the secret of success.” – Anna Pavlova

68. “You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.” —Leymah Gbowee

69. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

70. “Customer service is an opportunity to exceed your customer’s expectations.”

71. “In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.” – Miguel de Cervantes

72. “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.” – Anthony Volodkin

73. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin

74. “Everything starts with the customer.”

75. “Individual honors come with team success.” – Gilbert Arenas

76. “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” ―Vernon Sanders Law

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

78. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” ―Abraham Lincoln

79. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty” – Winston Churchill

80. “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” — Aristotle Onassis

81. “The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect”

82. “An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it” – Roy Ash

83. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napoleon Hill

84. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

85. “Small opportunities are often beginning of great achievements.”

86. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson

87. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

88. “Building a brand means knowing your story and building and sharing that story”—Tamara McCleary

89. “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” – Oscar Wilde

90. “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ” ― Roseanne Barr

91. “If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.”

92. “Diligence is the mother of good luck” – Benjamin Franklin

93. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho

94. “If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.” — Will Rogers

95. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” —Tina Fey

96. “Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.” — Chris Dixon, an investor at Andreessen Horowitz

97. “Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.”

98. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

99. “Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.” – Edward Dowden

100. “No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.” —Billie Jean King

101. “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”

102. “Today’s Accomplishments Were Yesterday’s Impossibilities.” – Robert H. Schuller, American motivational speaker

103. “Everything started as nothing.”

104. “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%” – Rob Kalin

105. “To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.”

106. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

107. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

108. “Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” – Confucius

109. “Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.” —Walt Disney

110. “If you look really closely, most overnight successes took a long time” – Steve Jobs

111. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin, writer

112. “I don’t know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.” – Susan Butcher

113. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

114. “The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.” – Harvey S. Firestone

115. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

116. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” — Zig Ziglar

117. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

118. “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – William Feather, American publisher and author

119. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder

120. “The things we fear the most in organizations- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.”

121. “Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.”

122. “First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.”

123. “My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.” – Isaac Newton

124. “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.” – Zig Ziglar

125. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” – Gandalf, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

126. “An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.” — David Karp, founder, and CEO of Tumblr

127. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.”

128. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

129. “After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are.” – Shrek, Shrek The Third

130. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

131. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”– Charles R. Swindoll, author, educator, and radio preacher

132. “Great experience is made up of challenges.” – Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

133. “It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.” — Edmund Burke

134. “Men are born to succeed, not to fail.” – Henry David Thoreau

135. “It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.” – Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

136. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

137. “Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.”

138. “If people like you, they’ll listen to you. But if they trust you, they’ll do business with you” – Zig Ziglar

139. “Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.”

140. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large” – Jeff Bezos

141. “To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.” – John H. Patterson

142. “Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.”

143. “All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” – Aristotle

144. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” Dale Carnegie

145. “I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey

146. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen

147. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn

148. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” —Ruth Gordo

149. “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.” – Jason Fried

150. “Don’t deliver a product, deliver an experience.”

151. “Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.” — Michael Dell, chairman, and CEO of Dell

152. “Always give your best effort even when the odds are against you.”

153. “Every man dies, but not every man really lives.” – William Wallace, Braveheart

154. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” —Jennifer Lopez

155. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

156. “Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.”

157. “One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.”

158. “Action is the foundational key to all success.”

159. “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” – Phil Knight, founder, Nike

160. Mandy Hale: “There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.”

161. “If you want to grow you have to do something different from the majority of people.”

162. Unknown: “Life’s too short to learn from your own mistakes. So learn from others”

163. “Every problem is a gift — without problems we would not grow.” – Anthony Robbins

164. “Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day.” – Gary Vaynerchuck

165. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela

166. “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, and poet

167. “I try not to make decisions that I’m not excited about” – Jake Nickell

168. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”

169. “The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.” –Malcolm Forbes

170. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” —Mark Twain

171. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” – Ralph Marston

172. “There is no finish line. There are only mile markers.”

173. Unknown: “If you don’t have big dreams and goals, you’ll end up working for someone that does.”

174. “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!” – Henry Ford

175. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

176. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea” – Larry Page

177. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” — Joe Girard

178. Unknown: “Remember why you started.”

179. “Impatience never commanded success.” – Edwin H. Chapin

180. “Creative without strategy is called art. Creative with strategy is called advertising.” – Jeff I. Richards

181. “The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.” – Sergey Brin, co-founder, Google

182. “A man should never neglect his family for business.” – Walt Disney

183. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”

184. “I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.” —Jay-Z

185. “If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.”

186. “The biggest mistake a small business can make is to think like a small business.”

187. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” – Thomas A. Edison

188. “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” —Stephen Covey

189. “Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” – William Durant

190. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel (see more Coco Chanel quotes)

191. “My best advice to entrepreneurs is this: forget about making mistakes, just do it.” – Ajaero Tony Martins

192. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” — Thomas Edison, co-founder of General Electric

193. “Do the best you can. No one can do more than that.” ―John Wooden

194. Mahatma Gandhi: “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

195. Unknown: “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it.”

196. “Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.”

197. “I like to say it’s an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.”― Safra A. Catz

198. “I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.” – Bobby Knight

199. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” – Sheryl Sandberg

200. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison

201. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” – Napoleon Hill

202. “It’s very easy to be different but very difficult to be better.” – Jonathan Ive, former chief design officer, Apple

203. “Don’t count the days, Make the days count.”

204. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt

205. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” -Arnold H. Glasgow

206. “You don’t build a business. You build people and people build the business.” — Zig Ziglar

207. “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne

208. “In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.”

209. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

210. “Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them” – Tony Hsieh

211. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

212. “A business absolutely devoted to service will have one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” – Henry Ford

213. “There is no success without hardship.” – Sophocles

214. “To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.”

215. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

216. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

217. “Every company’s greatest assets are its customers because without customers there is no company.”

218. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” ―Benjamin Franklin

219. “Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage.” —Unknown

220. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” —Louise Hay

221. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work” – Thomas Edison

222. “In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.” — Robert Kiyosaki

223. “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra

224. “Customers may forget what you said but they’ll never forget how you made them feel.”

225. “The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.”

226. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

227. “If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.” – Malcolm X

228. “Every problem is a gift—without problems, we would not grow.” – Anthony Robbins

229. “Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try.” – Unknown

230. “There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”

231. “Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.” —Isabel Allende

232. “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin

233. “Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.”

234. “Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” — Golda Meir

235. “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”

236. “Make sure your business is creating a service experience so good that it demands loyalty.” ― Steve Maraboli

237. “Carpe per diem – seize the check.” – Robin Williams

238. “There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others” – Mandy Hale

239. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

240. “There are no working hours for leaders.”

241. “Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffet

242. Walt Disney: “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

243. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison

244. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”

245. “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.” — Paul Rand, Graphic Designer

246. “Never Give up. Today is hard and tomorrow will be Worse, but the day after Tomorrow will be Sunshine.”

247. “Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading. Buying and selling.”

248. “Bringing great people onto your team is about demonstrating that size really doesn’t matter – people do.”

249. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success” – Biz Stone

250. “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.”

251. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft

252. “Failure Will Never Overtake Me If My Determination To Succeed Is Strong Enough.” – Og Mandino, American author

253. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do” – Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple

254. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” —Dale Carnegie

255. “Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop” – Jeffrey Zeldman

256. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville

257. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker

258. “Be an amateur. Not everything you do has to be good, especially at first.”― Ann Handley

259. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

260. “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” —Pablo Picasso

261. “Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely on my tenacity.”

262. “Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.” – Seth Godin

263. “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” – Lisa Stone

264. “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.”

265. “The Golden Rule for Every Business is this: Put Yourself in your Customer’s Place.”

266. “It’s not about better time management. It’s about better life management” — Alexandra of The Productivity Zone

267. “People's passion and desire for authenticity is strong.” —Constance Wu

268. “Never give up. Great things take time.”

269. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”

270. “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” – Phil Knight

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

272. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” – Alexander Graham Bell

273. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates

274. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it” – Thomas Edison

275. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

276. “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” – Teddy Roosevelt

277. “You don’t need to have a 100–person company to develop that idea.” – Larry Page, co-founder of Google

278. “Luck is what you have leftover after you give 100%.” – Langston Coleman

279. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” — William James

280. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” —Dolly Parton

281. “See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” — Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle

282. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” — Michael Jordan

283. “You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”

284. “A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” – Richard Branson

285. “Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don’t let the bastards get you down.”

286. “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” – Eames, Inception

287. “My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” – Ted Turner

288. “I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.” — Jake Nickell, founder and CEO of Threadless

289. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

290. “If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.”

291. “A company is only as good as the people it keeps.” -Mary Kay Ash

292. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine

293. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right” – Henry Ford

294. “You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.” — Peter Shankman, founder of HARO

295. “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.” – Frank Ocean

296. “Anything that is measured and watched, improves” – Bob Parsons

297. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen R. Covey

298. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” – George Bernard Shaw

299. “Women must learn to play the game as men do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

300. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

301. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey

302. “There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” – George Shinn

303. “Make each day your masterpiece.” — John Wooden, American basketball player

304. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” — Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures

305. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”

306. “Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.”

307. “I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.”

308. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ―Theodore Roosevelt

309. ”Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace.”

310. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” ― Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor

311. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”—John D. Rockefeller, American oil industry business magnate

312. “I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.” – Donald Trump

313. “Don’t give up, the beginning is always the hardest.”

314. “If you aren’t first, you’re last.” – Talladega Nights

315. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” — Jack Dorsey

316. “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” — Warren Buffett

317. “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” – Dale Carnegie, American writer

318. “If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy.” Mark Cuban

319. “​​Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way.” – Vera Wang

320. “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

321. “The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.” — David Ricardo

322. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”

323. “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

324. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” — Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter

325. “Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.” — Kyle Bragger

326. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.” – Oprah Winfrey

327. “A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.” – Charles Schwab

328. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”

329. “Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.” – Noah Everett

330. “Make the customer the hero of your story.”

331. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers, American actor

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

333. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

334. “For maximum attention, nothing beats a good mistake.” – Unknown

335. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” — Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft

336. “An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.” -Dee Hock

337. “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.” — Steve Case, co-founder of AOL

338. “Talent can be hired, money has to be earned. ” – Vishnu

339. “Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss.” —S. O’Sade

340. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot, author

341. “I’m never going back, the past is in the past!”

342. “It’s important that leaders are consistent. You can change your mind, but change your mind against a consistent framework.”

343. “There is no substitute for hard work.” — Thomas Edison, entrepreneur and inventor

344. “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.”

345. “Don’t risk more than you can afford to lose!” – The Backroads Bosslady

346. “Fail often so you can succeed sooner.”

347. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” — Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos

348. “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” – Warren Buffett

349. “If you can't yet do great things, do small things in a great way.” ―Napoleon Hill

350. “If your business is not on the internet then your business will be out of business.”

351. “Success is never accidental.” – Jack Dorsey

352. “Fortune befriends the bold.” – Emily Dickinson

353. “We generate fears while we sit. We over come them by action. Fear is natures way of warning us to get busy.” – Dr. Henry Link

354. “Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.” – Scott Adams

355. “Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.” – Henry Ford

356. “You will be defined not just by what you achieve, but by how you survive.”―Sheryl Sandberg

357. “When I’m tired, I rest. I say, ‘I can’t be a superwoman today.’”

358. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu, Chinese Taoist philosopher

359. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”

360. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”

361. “I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars — I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”

362. “High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.” – Charles Kettering

363. “Here is the simple but powerful rule… always give people more than they expect to get.”

364. “Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” —Vince Lombardi

365. “A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.” – Joyce Brothers

366. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: The fear of failure.”

367. “Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.” — Angelo Sotira, co-founder of deviantART

368. “”I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey

369. “Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

370. “Tough times never last, but tough people do” – Robert H. Schuller

371. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” ―A.A. Milne

372. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

373. “To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” – Tony Dorsett

374. “Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” — Tom Lehrer

375. Walt Disney: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

376. “Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.” — Jason Calacanis

377. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

378. “If you hear a voice within you saying ‘you are not a painter’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”

379. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

380. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra

381. “Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

382. “You have to work on the business first before it works for you.” ― Idowu Koyenikan

383. “Nothing works better than just improving your product.” — Joel Spolsky

384. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer

385. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” — Karen Lamb, author

386. “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team” – Jason Fried

387. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney, founder of the Disney Brother Studio and Disneyland

388. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”

389. “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli

390. “Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.” – John Ciardi

391. “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.” – Tom Brokaw

392. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”

393. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot

394. “A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.” ― George Meredith

395. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

396. “Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” ―Anne Lamott

397. “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.” – Dennis Waitley

398. “Great customer service is a critical competitive advantage for a business.”

399. Steve Martin: “Be so good they can’t ignore you.”

400. “Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.” — Tony Robbins

401. “Work until your bank account looks like a phone number.” — Unknown

402. ”The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”

403. “The only one who can tell you “you can’t win” is you and you don’t have to listen.” —Jessica Ennis

404. “You Are Never Too Old To Set Another Goal Or To Dream A New Dream.” – C.S. Lewis, British writer

405. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”— Robert Kiyosaki

406. “I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes.” —Barbara Elaine Smith

407. “It always seems impossible, until it is done.”

408. “A winner never stops trying.”

409. “Don’t worry about being successful, but work towards being significant. The success will naturally follow” – Oprah Winfrey

410. “Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.” —Kurt Vonnegut

411. “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

412. “Success is the child of audacity.” – Benjamin Disraeli

413. “Don’t be evil” – Larry Page

414. “Stay self-funded as long as possible.” — Garrett Camp

415. “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

416. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

417. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle

418. “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” – Peter Drucker

419. “Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.” – Tony Robbin

420. “Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”

421. “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”

422. “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”

423. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard

424. “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of the United States

425. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” — Scott Belsky, co-founder of Behance

426. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard, American salesman

427. “You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.”

428. “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”

429. “Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.”

430. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rodgers

431. “Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki

432. “If people like you they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you they’ll do business with you.” — Zig Ziglar

433. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill, author

434. “Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

435. “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” — Oscar Wilde

436. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

437. “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.” – Mahatma Gandhi

438. “A big business starts small.”

439. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”

440. “Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.” – Sean Maguire, Good Will Hunting

441. “Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.” — Jason Calacanis, founder of LAUNCH Ticker

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

443. “An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.”

444. “Details create the big picture.” -Sanford I. Weill

445. “To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.”

446. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”— Colin R. Davis

447. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

448. “Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.”

449. “Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.” – Seth Godin

450. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville, American novelist

451. “Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company”

452. “Opportunities don't happen, you create them.” — Chris Grosser

453. “Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

454. “You have to work on the business first before it works for you.”

455. “Make something people want" includes making a company that people want to work for.”

456. “Don’t be addicted to money. Work to learn. don’t work for money. Work for knowledge.” – Robert Kiyosaki

457. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

458. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.” — Venus Williams

459. “Patience: This is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.”

460. “True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.” – Paul Sweeney

461. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville

462. “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” – Wayne Huizenga, serial entrepreneur

463. “If you define yourself by how you differ from the competition, you’re probably in trouble” – Omar Hamoui

464. “When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone.” —Melissa McCarthy

465. “Nothing works better than just improving your product” – Joel Spolsky

466. “Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy.” – Jim Rohn

467. “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – William Feather

468. “The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.”

469. “You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” —Zig Ziglar

470. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” —Michael Jordan

471. “Hire character. Train skill.” – Peter Schutz

472. “Never ever give up! Constant effort is the key to success.”

473. “Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.” – Napoleon Hill

474. “Stay true to yourself and your vision. Don’t let any one person’s opinion move you; listen, but be confident.”―Amanda Kahlow

475. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” – George Kneller

476. “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi

477. “The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could.” — Unknown

478. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney

479. “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

480. – “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.” – Reid Hoffman

481. “Lean in, speak out, have a voice in your organization, and never use the word, ‘sorry’.” ―Trish Bertuzzi

482. “Your customer doesn’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”

483. “You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.”

484. Warren Buffett: “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

485. “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

486. “Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy. Do what is great while it is small.”

487. “The most successful entrepreneurs I know are optimistic. It’s part of the job description.” ― Caterina Fake

488. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Edison

489. “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.”

490. “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” — Will Rogers, American actor

491. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”

492. “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” -Peter Drucker

493. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs

494. “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination and more drive.”

495. “A small business is an amazing way to serve and leave an impact on the world you live in.”

496. “Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.”

497. ”Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

498. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

499. “When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.”

500. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”― George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright

501. “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.” – Unknown

502. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

503. “If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late.” – James Goldsmith

504. “The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.” — Richard Bach, American writer

505. “The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.”

506. “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”

507. “The heart and soul of a company is creativity and innovation.”

508. “Work 9-to-5, spend a couple of hours with your family, 7 to 2 am is plenty of time to do damage.”

509. “Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.” – Unknown

510. “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” — Rob Kalin, founder of Etsy

511. “You don’t need to have a 100–person company to develop that idea.”

512. “Always deliver more than expected” – Larry Page

513. “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you” – Tony Hsieh

514. “The beauty of the business is, you don’t need to think about the eligibility.” – Zahirul M Islam

515. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

516. “Success is survival.” – Leonard Cohen

517. “An entrepreneur is someone who has a vison for something and a want to create” – Kyle Bragger

518. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!” – Jonathan Winters

519. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” — Steve Jobs

520. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” —Lucille Ball

521. “Take risks. Failure is a stepping stone to success.”

522. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill

523. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” — Henry Ford

524. “People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.” – Seth Godin

525. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

526. “It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.”

527. “Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” – John F. Kennedy

528. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” — Harry Golden, American writer

529. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” ―Theodore Roosevelt

530. “My best advice to entrepreneurs is this: forget about making mistakes, just do it.”

531. “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” – Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos

532. “Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.” – James Cash Penney, Founder of JCPenney

533. “The first one gets the oyster, the second gets the shell.” – Andrew Carnegie

534. “Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”

535. “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

536. “I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars – I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over” – Warren Buffet

537. “Be so good they can’t ignore you” – Steve Martin

538. “Openly share and talk to people about your idea. Use their lack of interest or doubt to fuel your motivation to make it happen.”

539. “Be the change you wish to see in the world” – Mahatma Gandhi

540. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” — Biz Stone

541. “You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” – Warren Buffett

542. “The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.” – Sergey Brin

543. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” – Henry Ford

544. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb

545. “The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.” – John C. Maxwell

546. “Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation.” – Clayton Christensen, economist and Harvard professor

547. “Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality” — Les Brown

548. “Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it” – Ryan Allis

549. “In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.”

550. “The secret of the team’s success is easy – unity and hard work.” – David Beckham

551. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”— Steve Jobs, co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.

552. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”

553. “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” – Benjamin Button, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

554. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”

555. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

556. “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team” – Reid Hoffman

557. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder

558. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela

559. “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” – Robert H. Schuller

560. “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.”

561. “The continuation of success depends on greediness, patience, and dissatisfaction.” – Dhirendra Pandey

562. “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.” – Babe Ruth

563. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” – Scott Belsky

564. “Always deliver more than expected.”

565. “Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.” – Tony Hsieh

566. “You reach a point where you don’t work for money.” – Walt Disney

567. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader

568. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” —Jane Goodall

569. “True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.”

570. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley

571. “Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.” ―David Ogilvy

572. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” — Jim Rohn

573. “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.”

574. “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

575. “Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway.“ – Robert Downey Jr., American actor

576. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.” — Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company

577. “The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.”

578. “Someday is not a day of the week.” – Janet Dailey

579. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” – Maya Angelou

580. “One finds limits by pushing them.” – Herbert Simon

581. “Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.” — Joel Spolsky

582. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” — Larry Page, co-founder of Google

583. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” —Anaïs Nin

584. “Here is the simple but powerful rule… always give people more than they expect to get.” – Nelson Boswell

585. “There is no substitute for hard work.” — Thomas Edison

586. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” — Aristotle, father of Western philosophy

587. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight Eisenhower

588. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

589. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

590. “We May Encounter Many Defeats But We Must Not Be Defeated.” – Maya Angelou, American poet, singer, and civil rights activist

591. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates

592. “Setting goal is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

593. “The expert in anything was once a beginner.”

594. “There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” – Seth Godin

595. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.”

596. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.” — Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon

597. “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.” – John Lennon

598. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote

599. “A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.” – Confucius Kongzi

600. “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George S. Patton

601. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

602. “You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.”

603. “I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.” —Gilbert K. Chesterton

604. “The best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch” – Michael Arrington

605. “When you serve the customer better, they always return on your investment.”

606. “Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.” – Lolly Daskal

607. “Take risks. Failure is a stepping stone to success.” — Arianna Huffington

608. “Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.” – Henry Ford

609. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing; that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar

610. “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create” – Oprah Winfrey

611. “Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.” – Sam Ewing

612. “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” – Jon Bon Jovi

613. Robert H. Schuller: “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

614. “If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.”

615. “You become what you think about.” – Napoleon Hill

616. “Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.”

617. “If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new.” – Jeff Bezos

618. “Nothing works better than just improving your product.” — Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow

619. “I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale

620. “Longevity is a fleeting moment that lasts forever.”

621. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” — Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks

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

623. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” – Stephen Hawking

624. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” — Estee Lauder, founder of Estee Lauder Cosmetics

625. “Customer don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.”

626. “Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day” – Joel Spolsky

627. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”

628. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder

629. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

630. “A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”

631. “If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.” – Walt Disney

632. “Do, or do not. There is no try.”

633. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.”

634. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

635. “Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.” – Alfred, Batman Begins

636. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

637. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… Is not starting something” – Seth Godin

638. “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”

639. “What can go wrong, will go wrong.” – Ozzy Osbourne

640. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

641. “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin

642. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” — Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company

643. “Anything that is measured and watched, improves.” — Bob Parsons

644. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”

645. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

646. “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination” – Steve Case

647. “It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.” – Eddie Cantor

648. “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary.”

649. “Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.”―Meg Whitman

650. “Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.” – Christopher Reeve

651. “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late” – Reid Hoffman

652. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” – Mark Twain

653. “Know what your customer want most and what your company does best. Focus on where those two meet.”

654. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

655. “Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us” – Angelo Sotria

656. “There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.” – Ronald Reagan

657. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.”

658. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

659. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali, American professional boxer

660. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader” – Fred Wilson

661. “Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” – Winston Churchill

662. “To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.” —Dorothy West

663. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

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

665. “When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’”

666. “I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.” – Jonathan Winters

667. “You don’t build a business. You build people and people build the business.”

668. “Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.” — Michael Dell

669. “See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” — Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle

670. “Growth and comfort do not coexist.” ― Ginni Rometty

671. “Turn a perceived risk into an asset.”

672. “How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”

673. “Someday is not a day of the week.” — Janet Dailey, author

674. “It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.” – Jason Cohen

675. “Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.” – Sir Claus Moser, British statistician

676. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

677. “You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.” – Jim Rohn

678. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.”

679. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

680. “Tara has such passion for what she does!”

681. “A minute’s success pays the failure of years.” – Robert Browning

682. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.” — Anthony Volodkin, founder of Hype Machine

683. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

684. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

685. “Success is not what you have, but who you are.”

686. “If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right.” —Childish Gambino

687. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

688. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

689. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

690. “Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” – Peter Drucker

691. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” — Dhirubhai Ambani

692. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” —Helen Keller

693. “Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow.” – Anthony Robbins

694. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

695. “Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors” – Chris Dixon

696. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

697. “The journey is the reward.”

698. “Have the end in mind and every day make sure you’re working towards it.”

699. “Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.”

700. “Failure is success if we learn from it.” – Malcolm Forbes, American entrepreneur and publisher of Forbes magazine

701. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago” – Warren Buffett

702. “I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.” – Henry Ford

703. “It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and it always takes longer. So plan for that.”

704. “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen” – Wayne Huizenga

705. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

706. “Data beats emotions.” — Sean Rad, founder of Tinder

707. “It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”

708. “By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.”

709. “If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.”

710. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

711. “The most successful entrepreneurs I know are optimistic. It’s part of the job description.” ― Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr

712. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard” – Guy Kawasaki

713. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

714. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau

715. “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” — Henry Ford

716. “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” — Unknown

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

718. “Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.” — Mark Cuban, AXS TV Chairman and entrepreneur

719. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln

720. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen” – Scott Belsky

721. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou

722. “All lasting business is built on friendship.” – Alfred A. Montapert

723. “To think is easy, to act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth

724. “Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.” – Henry Ford

725. “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”

726. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis

727. “No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work.” — Jonathan Sacks

728. “Help your team feel more connected to your company by incorporating the right digital technology tools into their workflow.”

729. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t — you’re right.”

730. “Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.”

731. “Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.” – Jim Rohn

732. “Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.” — Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow

733. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” — Will Rogers

734. “If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.” – B. C. Forbes

735. “Make a Customer, Not a sale.”

736. “”You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” – Warren Buffett

737. “Can’t forget you only get what you give.” – New Radicals

738. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart

739. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. president

740. “Comfort is the enemy of achievement.” – Farrah Gray

741. “There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there — you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee

742. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.” — Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States

743. “If we did all the things we were capable of, we would astound ourselves” – Thomas Edison, inventor

744. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk

745. “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” — Thomas Watson

746. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn

747. “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.” — Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder

748. “Creative without strategy is called art. Creative with strategy is called advertising.” – Jeff I. Richards

749. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison

750. “For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” – Walter Scott

751. “Be a positive energy trampoline – absorb what you need and rebound more back.” — Dave Carolan

752. “Failure is not about insecurity, it’s about lack of execution.”

753. “An obstacle is often a stepped stone.”

754. “Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.”

755. “Capital isn’t scarce. Vision is.”

756. “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” – John Keating, Dead Poets Society

757. “Everything started as nothing” – Ben Weissenstein

758. “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” – Frank Zappa

759. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.”

760. “Always deliver more than expected.” — Larry Page, co-founder of Google

761. “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask: ‘compared to what?'” – Sydney Harris

762. “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” ―Cormac McCarthy

763. ”You always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”

764. “Beware of any enterprise requiring new clothes.” – Henry David Thoreau

765. “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” — Winnie the Pooh

766. “In order to succeed. We must first believe that we can.”

767. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”

768. “Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” – C. S. Lewis

769. “If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.” ―Jim Rohn

770. “Unless you dream, you’re not going to achieve anything.” – Richard Branson

771. “Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.” – Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga

772. “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt

773. “There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.” – Oprah Winfrey

774. “Success is best when it’s shared.” – Howard Schultz

775. “Hakuna Matata… it means no worries!” – Lion King

776. “Business is all about relationships, how well you build them determines how well they build your business.”

777. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” — Japanese Proverb

778. “One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.”

779. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” — Drew Houston, founder and CEO of Dropbox

780. “Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.” – Zig Ziglar

781. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

782. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”

783. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect” – Jack Dorsey

784. “What we do in life echoes in eternity.” – Maximus, from Gladiator

785. “Knowledge without action is meaningless” – Abu Bakr

786. “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”

787. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

788. “Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.” – Baltasa

789. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them” Walt Disney

790. “A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” – Henry Ford

791. Roy Ash: “An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.”

792. “The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says ‘Go!’ – a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’.”

793. “Failure is success if we learn from it.” – Malcolm Forbes

794. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford

795. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson

796. “Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.”

797. “Always deliver more than expected.” — Larry Page, co-founder of Google

798. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

799. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” — Dalai Lama

800. “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

801. “There is little success where there is little laughter.” – Andrew Carnegie

802. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

803. “He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.” — Confucius

804. “People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.” – Harvey MacKay

805. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” — Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks

806. “If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them” – Ryan Freitas

807. “Business has only two functions – marketing and Innovation.”

808. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist

809. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin

810. “Don’t give them what they want. Give them what they never dreamed was possible.”

811. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” – Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos

812. “The road to success is always under construction.”

813. “When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.”—Norman Vincent Peale

814. “A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.” -Jeff Bezos

815. “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher

816. “The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.” —David Hurley

817. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” ― Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor

818. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine, author

819. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” – Abraham Lincoln

820. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

821. “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” – Babe Ruth

822. Unknown: “Never underestimate the power of a t-shirt.”

823. “I know that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying” – Jeff Bezos

824. “The road to success is always under construction.” — Lily Tomlin

825. “It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.”

826. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

827. “I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have.”

828. “If you want to grow you have to do something different from the majority of people.” — Lakshmi Mittal

829. “The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.”

830. “Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.” – Warren Bennis

831. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud, neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis

832. “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Thomas Watson

833. “We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.”

834. “Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.”

835. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel

836. “Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.” – William George Jordan, writer/editor

837. “I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.” —Mia Hamm

838. “Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.” – Oscar Wilde

839. “Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.” — Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga

840. “Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.” ―Mary Anne Radmacher, author

841. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

842. “Business in a combination of War and sport.” – Andre Maurois

843. “If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.”

844. “Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.” – Michelle Obama

845. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

846. “I do not know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.” – Susan Butcher, sled dog racer

847. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”

848. “Stay self-funded as long as possible” – Garrett Camp

849. “All you have in business is your reputation – So it’s very important that you keep your work.”

850. “Remain a lifelong student. Don’t lose that curiosity.”

851. “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

852. “High expectations are the key to everything.”

853. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

854. “Much effort, much prosperity.” – Euripides

855. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

856. “The secret of success in any field is redefining what success means to you.” – RuPaul

857. “Achievement is talent plus preparation.” – Malcolm Gladwell

858. “Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!”—Kate Summers

859. “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” – Epictetus

860. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”

861. “I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” — Jean-Francois Cope

862. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” — Babe Ruth, American professional baseball player

863. “Preparation doesn’t assure victory, it assures confidence.” – Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Worlds

864. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

865. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

866. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”

867. The Backroads Bosslady: “Don’t risk more than you can afford to lose!”

868. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem

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

870. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

871. “If you don’t have big dreams and goals, you’ll end up working for someone that does” – Unknown

872. “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”

873. “Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be” – Lakshmi Mittal

874. “There is no substitute for victory.” – Douglas MacArthur

875. “Stay self-funded as long as possible.” — Garrett Camp, founder of Expa, Uber, and StumbleUpon

876. “Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.” — Chris Dixon

877. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

878. “Don’t worry about failure. You only have to be right once.” — Drew Houston

879. “You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good” – Peter Shankman

880. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” — Thomas Edison

881. “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.”

882. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein

883. “A business becomes successful when it becomes mutually beneficial for you and your customers.” – Pooja Agnihotri

884. “The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.” ―Epicurus

885. “Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

886. “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” – Wayne Huizenga

887. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”

888. “Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea” – Mark Pincus

889. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing” – Walt Disney

890. John A. Shedd: “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”

891. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” — Fred Wilson

892. “When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” – Sydney Harris, American journalist

893. “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”

894. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” — Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group

895. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

896. “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be” – Reid Hoffman

897. “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”

898. “I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.” —Don Cheadle

899. “Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.” – Earl Nightingale

900. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.”

901. “You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t.”

902. “Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.” —Mia Hamm

903. “Great men are not born great, they grow great.” – Vito Corleone, The Godfather

904. “Success isn’t overnight. It’s when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.” – Dwayne Johnson

905. “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.”— Lily Tomlin, American actress

906. “Word of mouth is the best medium of all.” – William Bernbach

907. “You don't build a business, you build people, then people build the business.”

908. “If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.” – Maya Angelou

909. “Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!“ – David Dweck

910. “Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”

911. “Great things in business are never done by one person.”

912. “Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.” — Michael Arrington, founder and co-editor of TechCrunch

913. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” ―Walt Disney

914. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” – Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures

915. “The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.” – Thomas Watson

916. “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs

917. “Business is the salt of life.”

918. “The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”

919. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it” – Estee Lauder

920. “Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.” — Michael Arrington

921. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

922. “Hire character. Train skill.”

923. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” – Madeleine Albright

924. “Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” – Zig Ziglar

925. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein

926. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

927. “Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement” – Golda Meir

928. “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…” – Marcus Aurelius

929. Unknown: “You have to believe it before you see it.”

930. “Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.”

931. “No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!” ― T D Jakes

932. “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team”

933. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

934. “A business absolutely devoted to service will have one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”

935. “All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”

936. “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” — Mahatma Gandhi

937. “I don’t build to have clients. I have clients in order to build.” – The Fountainhead

938. “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”

939. “Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.” — Jim Rohn

940. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

941. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

942. “Data beats emotions.”

943. “Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.” – Deepak Chopra

944. “The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell.” – Andrew Carnegie

945. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

946. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud

947. “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.” — Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos

948. Albert Einstein: “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

949. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

950. “Don’t worry about failure. You only have to be right once.”

951. “Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things” – David Ogilvy

952. “It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you” – Jason Cohen

953. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” — Tony Robbins

954. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” —Bo Jackson

955. “A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” —Sonia Sotomayor

956. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

957. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” — Henry Ford

958. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates

959. “If everything is a priority, nothing is.” – Yuri van der Sluis

960. “We must intertwine business and ethics in a very fundamental way.” — Robert Bruner

961. “Anything that is measured and watched, improves.” — Bob Parsons, founder of GoDaddy

962. “You must not only aim right but draw the bow with all your might.”

963. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein

964. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” ―W. P. Kinsella

965. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

966. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” — Guy Kawasaki, entrepreneur and co-founder of Alltop

967. Abu Bakr: “Knowledge without action is meaningless”

968. “The only way around is through.” – Robert Frost

969. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill

970. “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” – J. Paul Getty

971. “There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.” — Heather Bresch, CEO of Mylan

972. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

974. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical” – Howard Schultz

975. “The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new” – Socrates

976. “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” – Oprah Winfrey

977. “If you define yourself by how you differ from the competition, you’re probably in trouble.” — Omar Hamoui

978. “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” – Zig Ziglar

979. “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”— Tony Hsieh

980. “Success is not a one-time random life event. Success is a habit.”

981. “If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.” — Marissa Mayer

982. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney

983. “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.” — Steve Case, co-founder of AOL

984. “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.” – Vince Lombardi

985. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it” – Unknown

986. “Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.” – Rafiki, The Lion King

987. “My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.” – Oscar Wilde

988. “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

989. “Genius is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent perspiration.”

990. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey

991. “Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.” – Shah Rukh Khan

992. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin

993. Oprah Winfrey: “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.”

994. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it” – Henry David Thoreau

995. “A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.” – Unknown

996. “One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

997. “Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, Do what is great while it is small.”

998. “The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop

999. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They va

1000. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty." — Winston Churchill