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