1,000 Motivational Business Quotes To Inspire Success (2023)
- Jonno White
- Feb 1, 2023
- 53 min read
1. “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” – Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
2. “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”
3. “One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.” – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
4. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
5. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
6. “The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell.” – Andrew Carnegie
7. “Stay self-funded as long as possible.” — Garrett Camp, founder of Expa, Uber, and StumbleUpon
8. “Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.”
9. “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team” – Jason Fried
10. “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary.”
11. “Everybody wants to save the earth; no one wants to help mom do the dishes.” – P.J. O’Rourke
12. “The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.” – Harvey S. Firestone
13. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” — Drew Houston, founder and CEO of Dropbox
14. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” - Walt Disney
15. “To think is easy, to act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth
16. “If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.”
17. “The best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch” – Michael Arrington
18. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison
19. “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.” — Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder
20. “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” — Henry Ford
21. “It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.”
22. “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” – Peter Drucker
23. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”
24. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen” – Scott Belsky
25. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
26. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” - Coco Chanel
27. “Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”
28. Walt Disney: “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
29. “If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.” – Zig Ziglar
30. “I don’t know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.” – Susan Butcher
31. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical” – Howard Schultz
32. “If your business is not on the internet then your business will be out of business.”
33. “Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.” — Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga
34. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu, Chinese Taoist philosopher
35. “Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.”
36. “I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.” – Threadless CEO Jake Nickell
37. “Great things in business are never done by one person.”
38. “High expectations are the key to everything.”
39. “There is no scientific answer for success. You can’t define it. You’ve simply got to live it and do it.”
40. “Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.” — Michael Dell, chairman, and CEO of Dell
41. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” — Fred Wilson
42. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” — Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter
43. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” — Dhirubhai Ambani
44. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney
45. “It’s very easy to be different but very difficult to be better.” – Jonathan Ive
46. “There is no success without hardship.” – Sophocles
47. “Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.” – Zig Ziglar
48. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
49. “To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.” – John H. Patterson
50. “If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
51. “Stick to your true north – build greatness for the long term.”
52. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect” – Jack Dorsey
53. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… Is not starting something” – Seth Godin
54. “Lean in, speak out, have a voice in your organization, and never use the word, ‘sorry’.” ―Trish Bertuzzi
55. “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” – Phil Knight, founder, Nike
56. “The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.” – Thomas Watson
57. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
58. What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? – George Eliot, Novelist
59. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates
60. “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” – Warren Buffett
61. Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten. – Gucci Family Slogan
62. Surround yourself with people who have been where you are trying to go.
63. “Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” - Mae Jemison
64. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
65. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.” — Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon
66. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
67. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
68. “Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.” – Oscar Wilde
69. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
70. “Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.” – deviantART cofounder Angelo Sotira
71. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. – Roger Staubach, Former NFL Quarterback
72. “Your Customer doesn’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
73. “Don’t over-analyze everything.” – Pinterest Founder Ben Silbermann
74. “Don’t be evil” – Larry Page
75. “Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.”
76. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn
77. “Hakuna Matata… it means no worries!” – Lion King
78. “If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.”
79. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy
80. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
81. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work” – Thomas Edison
82. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them” Walt Disney
83. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” — Estee Lauder, founder of Estee Lauder Cosmetics
84. “A company is only as good as the people it keeps.” – Mary Kay Ash, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
85. “Never ever give up! Constant effort is the key to success.”
86. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
87. “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” – Robert H. Schuller
88. “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.” – Tom Brokaw
89. “Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be” – Lakshmi Mittal
90. “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination” – Steve Case
91. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.”
92. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
93. “Success is best when it’s shared.” – Howard Schultz
94. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” – Scott Belsky, Cofounder of Behance, Inc
95. Unknown: “Life’s too short to learn from your own mistakes. So learn from others”
96. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” – Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
97. Become a dictator of your own diary.
98. “Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.”
99. “All lasting business is built on friendship.” – Alfred A. Montapert
100. “A man should never neglect his family for business.” – Walt Disney
101. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
102. “Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop” – Jeffrey Zeldman
103. “Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.” – Sam Ewing
104. “Take risks. Failure is a stepping stone to success.”
105. “The continuation of success depends on greediness, patience, and dissatisfaction.” – Dhirendra Pandey
106. “Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy.” – Jim Rohn
107. “The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says ‘Go!’ – a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’.”
108. “Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.”
109. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville
110. “Growth and comfort do not coexist.”
111. “Word of mouth is the best medium of all.” – William Bernbach
112. How you think about your customers influences how you respond to them. – Marilyn Suttle, Success Coach
113. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
114. “Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.”
115. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
116. “If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.” – Maya Angelou
117. “Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.” – Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga
118. Treat your business like a business and people will respect your business.
119. “Remain a lifelong student. Don’t lose that curiosity.” – Former Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi
120. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
121. “Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.” – Lolly Daskal
122. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
123. “Tough times never last, but tough people do” – Robert H. Schuller
124. “People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.” – Seth Godin
125. “It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed. You only have to be right once.” - Mark Cuban
126. “Never Give up. Today is hard and tomorrow will be Worse, but the day after Tomorrow will be Sunshine.”
127. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford
128. “Nothing works better than just improving your product.” — Joel Spolsky
129. “Always deliver more than expected.” — Larry Page, co-founder of Google
130. “Knowledge is power is time is money.”
131. “Live each day as if your life had just begun.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German writer
132. “Building a brand means knowing your story and building and sharing that story”—Tamara McCleary
133. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” Babe Ruth, Baseball Player
134. Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. – Mother Teresa
135. Unknown: “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it.”
136. “In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.”
137. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”
138. “I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.” – Donald Trump
139. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
140. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: The fear of failure.”
141. “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”— Tony Hsieh
142. “We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.”
143. “See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” – Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison
144. “There are no working hours for leaders.”
145. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing” – Walt Disney
146. “There is no finish line. There are only mile markers.”
147. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair, Founder of The Omega Vector.
148. “An obstacle is often a stepped stone.”
149. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein
150. “When life gets ya down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming…”
151. “Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.” - Sadie Delany, educator and civil rights pioneer
152. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
153. “Don’t risk more than you can afford to lose!” – The Backroads Bosslady
154. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot, author
155. “Great customer service is a critical competitive advantage for a business.”
156. “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good” – Paul Rand
157. “You are never too young to make a difference.”
158. “Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things” – David Ogilvy
159. “In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.” – Miguel de Cervantes
160. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
161. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud
162. “You don’t build a business. You build people and people build the business.”
163. “One finds limits by pushing them.” – Herbert Simon
164. “Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.” – Henry Ford
165. “Comfort is the enemy of achievement.” – Farrah Gray
166. “You have to work on the business first before it works for you.”
167. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” – Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz
168. “The most successful entrepreneurs I know are optimistic. It’s part of the job description.” ― Caterina Fake
169. “To earn more, you must learn more.”
170. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
171. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”― George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright
172. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
173. “I never lost money by turning a profit.”
174. “The most successful entrepreneurs I know are optimistic. It’s part of the job description.”
175. “Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea” – Mark Pincus
176. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
177. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” – Thomas Edison
178. “Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.” – Rafiki, The Lion King
179. “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”
180. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” – Henry Ford
181. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.”
182. “Live each day as if your life had just begun.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
183. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft
184. “A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for” – John A. Shedd
185. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!” – Jonathan Winters
186. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
187. “If people like you, they’ll listen to you. But if they trust you, they’ll do business with you” – Zig Ziglar
188. “It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.” — Edmund Burke
189. “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.” – Bill Gates
190. Customer service is not a department, it's an attitude! – Unknown
191. “Always deliver more than expected” – Larry Page
192. “The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.”
193. “The secret of the team’s success is easy – unity and hard work.” – David Beckham
194. “The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.”
195. “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” – Jon Bon Jovi
196. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
197. “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
198. “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” — Madam C.J. Walker
199. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
200. “Unless you dream, you’re not going to achieve anything.” – Richard Branson
201. “Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you” – Mark Cuban
202. Good customer service costs less than bad customer service. – Sally Gronow, Customer Manager Welsh Water
203. If you don't care, your customer never will. – Marlene Blaszczyk, Motivational Specialist
204. “You become what you think about.” – Napoleon Hill
205. Life is for service. – Fred Rogers
206. “Business opportunities are like buses: there’s always another one coming.” - Richard Branson
207. “who wishes to fight must first count the cost”
208. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right” – Henry Ford
209. “Every company’s greatest assets are its customers because without customers there is no company.”
210. “Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.” — Chris Dixon, an investor at Andreessen Horowitz
211. “The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.”
212. “The absence of a message sometimes is a presence of one.”
213. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
214. “A business becomes successful when it becomes mutually beneficial for you and your customers.” – Pooja Agnihotri
215. “Always deliver more than expected.” – Google cofounder Larry Page
216. “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.” – Jason Fried
217. “You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.”
218. “An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.” -Dee Hock
219. “You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.” – Cecil Baxter
220. “People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.” – Harvey MacKay
221. “It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When
222. “If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late.” – James Goldsmith
223. “I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.” – Bobby Knight
224. “Don’t be addicted to money. Work to learn. don’t work for money. Work for knowledge.” – Robert Kiyosaki
225. “Today’s Accomplishments Were Yesterday’s Impossibilities.” – Robert H. Schuller, American motivational speaker
226. “Have the end in mind and every day make sure you’re working towards it.”
227. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” – Napoleon Hill
228. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
229. “True beauty is knowing who you are and what you want, and never apologizing for it.”
230. “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.” – John Lennon
231. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” — Harry Golden, American writer
232. “An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.” — David Karp
233. “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” – Julia Child
234. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” — Scott Belsky, co-founder of Behance
235. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
236. “I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.” – Jonathan Winters
237. “If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.”
238. “It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.” – Jason Cohen
239. “I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars – I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over” – Warren Buffet
240. “Well, put some skates on and be your own hero.”
241. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
242. “High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.” – Charles Kettering
243. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.” — Venus Williams
244. Unknown: “You have to believe it before you see it.”
245. Stay positive, work hard, and make it happen.
246. “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
247. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi
248. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” - John D. Rockefeller
249. “The road to success is always under construction.”
250. “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.” – Dennis Waitley
251. “You become what you think about.” – Napoleon Hill, Author of Think and Grow Rich. Get his books on Amazon.
252. “The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect”
253. “Every man dies, but not every man really lives.” – William Wallace, Braveheart
254. “Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely on my tenacity.” – Louis Pasteur
255. “A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.” - Mark Twain
256. “You will be defined not just by what you achieve, but by how you survive.”―Sheryl Sandberg
257. “There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.” – Oprah Winfrey
258. “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.” – Tony Hsieh
259. “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne
260. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
261. “Stay self-funded as long as possible.” – Garrett Camp, cofounder of Uber
262. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” — Thomas Edison, co-founder of General Electric
263. “You don’t need to have a 100–person company to develop that idea.” – Larry Page, co-founder of Google
264. “Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way.” – Vera Wang
265. “Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.” – Orson Scott Card
266. “Talent can be hired, money has to be earned. ” – Vishnu
267. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
268. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
269. “The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.” – Sergey Brin
270. “If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”
271. “Diligence is the mother of good luck” – Benjamin Franklin
272. “No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.” – P.T. Barnum
273. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
274. “Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.”
275. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
276. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
277. “In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.” — Robert Kiyosaki
278. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
279. “Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.” – Tony Robbin
280. “Customer don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.”
281. “Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.” – Edward Dowden
282. Your best customers leave quite an impression. Do the same, and they won't leave at all. – SAP Advertising
283. “To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.”
284. “My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.” – Isaac Newton
285. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville
286. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” — Henry Ford
287. “I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.”
288. “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”
289. “To follow, without halt, one aim: that’s the secret of success.” – Anna Pavlova
290. “There is no better measure of your values than how you spend your time.” - Scott Belsky, co-founder of Behance
291. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” – Abraham Lincoln
292. “You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”
293. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
294. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
295. “By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.”
296. When the customer comes first, the customer will last. – Robert Half, Founder of Robert Half International
297. “The heart and soul of a company is creativity and innovation.”
298. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” T.S. Eliot, Poet
299. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”
300. “Every problem is a gift — without problems we would not grow.” – Anthony Robbins
301. “True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.” – Paul Sweeney
302. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud, neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis
303. “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” – Mother Teresa
304. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” – Mark Twain
305. Mahatma Gandhi: “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
306. “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
307. “What would you do if you weren't afraid?”
308. “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
309. “A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”
310. “When you serve the customer better, they always return on your investment.”
311. What helps people, helps business. – Leo Burnett, Advertising Executive
312. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard
313. “Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.”
314. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen
315. “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”
316. “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” – Wayne Huizenga
317. Believe you can and you're halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt
318. “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” — Rob Kalin, founder of Etsy
319. “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra
320. “My best advice to entrepreneurs is this: forget about making mistakes, just do it.” – Ajaero Tony Martins
321. “If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.” – B. C. Forbes
322. “Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.” — Jim Rohn
323. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs
324. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
325. “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you” – Tony Hsieh
326. “Take risks. Failure is a stepping stone to success.” — Arianna Huffington
327. Unknown: “If you don’t have big dreams and goals, you’ll end up working for someone that does.”
328. “Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.” – Henry Ford
329. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
330. Inside of every problem lies an opportunity. – Robert Kiyosaki, Author Rich Dad Poor Dad
331. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin
332. “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”
333. “You don’t achieve success, you attract success.”
334. “The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.”
335. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” – Ernest Hemingway
336. “Knowledge without action is meaningless” – Abu Bakr
337. “Everything started as nothing” – Ben Weissenstein
338. “You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.”
339. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” ― Peter F. Drucker
340. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey
341. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.”
342. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” - Steve Jobs
343. “Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.”
344. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
345. “Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.”
346. “The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.”
347. “All lasting business is built on friendship.” – Alfred A. Montapert, Author
348. “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen” – Wayne Huizenga
349. “Don’t worry about failure. You only have to be right once.” – CEO and cofounder of Dropbox, Drew Houston
350. “It always seems impossible, until it is done.” – Nelson Mandela
351. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers, Famous Actor
352. “Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.” – Lakshmi Mittal
353. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates
354. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
355. “A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.” – Joyce Brothers
356. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it” – Unknown
357. “Do not be afraid to make decisions. Do not be afraid to make mistakes.”
358. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want,”
359. “You reach a point where you don’t work for money.” – Walt Disney
360. “It always seems impossible, until it is done.”
361. “Men are born to succeed, not to fail.” – Henry David Thoreau
362. “I’m a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren’t, I wouldn’t have this company.”
363. “It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.” – Mahatma Gandhi
364. “Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”
365. “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously.”
366. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” - Estée Lauder
367. “There is no substitute for victory.” – Douglas MacArthur
368. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.” — Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company
369. “Failure Will Never Overtake Me If My Determination To Succeed Is Strong Enough.” – Og Mandino, American author
370. “Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.” – Earl Nightingale
371. “Great results, can be achieved with small forces.”
372. “Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” – Confucius
373. “Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.”
374. “Even if you are on the right track, You’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
375. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” — Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures
376. “Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.”
377. “Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.” – Henry Ford
378. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” – Motivational speaker and author Zig Ziglar
379. “Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.” – Alfred, Batman Begins
380. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller
381. “Don’t worry about failure. You only have to be right once.”
382. “Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.”
383. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
384. “Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a great career.”
385. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
386. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
387. The Backroads Bosslady: “Don’t risk more than you can afford to lose!”
388. If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. - John Wooden
389. “An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.” - Scott Belsky
390. “Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don’t let the bastards get you down.”
391. “Make something people want" includes making a company that people want to work for.”
392. “Everything starts with the customer.”
393. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill, author
394. If at first, you don’t succeed, try again.
395. “Success is never accidental.” – Jack Dorsey
396. “If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.” – Malcolm X
397. “Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.” — Kyle Bragger
398. “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” - Anthony J. D'Angelo
399. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” - Napoleon Hill
400. “Be brutally honest about the short term, and optimistic and confident about the long term.”
401. “Stay true to yourself and your vision. Don’t let any one person’s opinion move you; listen, but be confident.”
402. Drew Houston: “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”
403. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
404. “Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules” – Seth Godin
405. Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man. – Lous Nizer, Lawyer
406. “Success is a decision. Dare to choose it.”
407. Thomas Edison: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
408. “To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.”
409. “The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”
410. “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.”
411. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.”
412. “You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.”
413. “The road to success is always under construction.” – Comedian Lily Tomlin
414. “Every problem is a gift—without problems, we would not grow.” – Anthony Robbins
415. “One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.”
416. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali, American professional boxer
417. “Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day” – Joel Spolsky
418. “Customer service is an opportunity to exceed your customer’s expectations.”
419. “Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.” – Napoleon Hill
420. “Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.” – Christopher Reeve
421. If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong. – Graham Day, Lawyer and Corporate Director
422. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein
423. “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Sir Isaac Newton
424. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” — Jack Dorsey
425. “If you can dream it, you can do it.”
426. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” — Japanese Proverb
427. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
428. “Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.”
429. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
430. “Always deliver more than expected” – Larry Page
431. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”
432. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
433. “What can go wrong, will go wrong.” – Ozzy Osbourne
434. “Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”
435. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” — Larry Page, co-founder of Google
436. “Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us” – Angelo Sotria
437. The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. – Peter Drucker, Best-Selling Author
438. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
439. “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” – Dale Carnegie, American writer
440. “Fail often so you can succeed sooner.”
441. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.
442. “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.” — Paul Rand, Graphic Designer
443. “Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.” – Baltasa
444. “It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.” – Eddie Cantor
445. If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. - J.M. Power
446. “Turn a perceived risk into an asset.”
447. “Creative without strategy is called art. Creative with strategy is called advertising.” – Jeff I. Richards
448. “Success is not a one-time random life event. Success is a habit.”
449. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
450. “Chase the vision not the money, the money will end up following you” – Tony Hsieh
451. “Data beats emotions.” — Sean Rad, founder of Tinder
452. “Success is the sum of small efforts—repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier, author
453. “A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for” – John A. Shedd
454. “Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
455. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. president
456. “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” -Peter Drucker
457. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” — Larry Page, co-founder of Google
458. “Advertising is legitimised lying.”
459. “Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.” – Michelle Obama
460. “This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.”
461. “I don’t like to lose — at anything — yet I’ve grown most not from victories, but setbacks.”
462. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
463. “You must not only aim right but draw the bow with all your might.”
464. “Business is the salt of life.”
465. “I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.”
466. “Hire character. Train skill.” – Peter Schutz
467. “It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” - Bill Gates
468. “If you define yourself by how you differ from the competition, you’re probably in trouble” – Omar Hamoui
469. “It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you” – Jason Cohen
470. “Business is all about relationships, how well you build them determines how well they build your business.”
471. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” – Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Meta
472. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” — Guy Kawasaki, entrepreneur and co-founder of Alltop
473. “We may encounter many defeats but We must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
474. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”
475. “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” – Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company
476. “If you aren’t first, you’re last.” – Talladega Nights
477. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers, American actor
478. “Truth builds trust.”
479. “There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.”
480. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” - Elon Musk
481. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
482. “Nothing works better than just improving your product.” — Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow
483. “Know what your customer want most and what your company does best. Focus on where those two meet.”
484. “Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.”
485. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large” – Jeff Bezos
486. Don't wait until it's perfect. Perfection is the enemy of entrepreneurship.
487. “All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” – Aristotle
488. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt
489. “Small opportunities are often beginning of great achievements.”
490. “Someday is not a day of the week.” — Janet Dailey, author
491. “Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.” – William George Jordan, writer/editor
492. “A big business starts small.”
493. “Vision without action is a daydream.” - Karthik Shankar
494. “I view myself as here to support my staff.”
495. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.” – Oprah Winfrey
496. “There is no substitute for hard work.” — Thomas Edison, entrepreneur and inventor
497. “Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.” — Chris Dixon
498. “Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.”
499. Pick who you listen to.
500. “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” – John Keating, Dead Poets Society
501. “The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.”
502. “Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.”
503. “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask: ‘compared to what?'” – Sydney Harris
504. “Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
505. “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” – Lisa Stone
506. “Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way.”
507. “Hire character. Train skill.”
508. “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” – Etsy founder Rob Kalin
509. “A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.”
510. “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.” – Vince Lombardi
511. “Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn’t done it.” – Evan Esar
512. “The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.”
513. “I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.” – Henry Ford
514. “The road to success is always under construction.” — Lily Tomlin
515. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard” – Guy Kawasaki
516. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
517. “Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”
518. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
519. “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs
520. “In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.” – Montesquieu
521. “In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.”
522. “Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.” – Shah Rukh Khan
523. “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”
524. “I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.” – Shirley Conran
525. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago” – Warren Buffett
526. “Here is the simple but powerful rule… always give people more than they expect to get.” – Nelson Boswell
527. “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
528. “We must intertwine business and ethics in a very fundamental way.” — Robert Bruner
529. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”— Colin R. Davis
530. “First, think. Second, dream. Third, believe. And finally, dare.” – Walt Disney
531. “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.”
532. “The best investment is in the tools of one’s own trade.” – Benjamin Franklin
533. “Data beats emotions.” – Tinder Founder Sean Rad
534. “The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.” — David Ricardo
535. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
536. Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement. – James Cash Penney, Founder J.C. Penney Stores
537. “How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”
538. “Nothing works better than just improving your product.” – Stack Overflow cofounder Joel Spolsky
539. “Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.” – Seth Godin
540. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” — Aristotle, father of Western philosophy
541. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder
542. Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. – Gretta Palmer, Author and Editor
543. “If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.”
544. “The first one gets the oyster, the second gets the shell.” – Andrew Carnegie
545. “Stick to your true north― build greatness for the long term.”―Ruth Porat
546. “Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day.” – Gary Vaynerchuck
547. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
548. “Make the customer the hero of your story.”
549. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
550. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
551. “Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.” – Mary Anne Radmacher, author
552. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder
553. “Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.”
554. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once” – Drew Houston
555. “Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” – Misty Copeland
556. “Every problem is a gift — without problems we would not grow.” – Tony Robbins, motivational speaker and writer
557. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
558. “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”
559. “Risk-taking is the cornerstone of empires.”
560. “Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.”
561. “My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.” – Oscar Wilde
562. “Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki
563. “We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.”
564. Walt Disney: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
565. “Individual honors come with team success.” – Gilbert Arenas
566. “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.”
567. “If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.”
568. “Anything that is measured and watched, improves.” — Bob Parsons
569. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
570. “Stay self-funded as long as possible.” — Garrett Camp
571. “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” — Will Rogers, American actor
572. “You Are Never Too Old To Set Another Goal Or To Dream A New Dream.” – C.S. Lewis, British writer
573. “There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.” — Heather Bresch, CEO of Mylan
574. “There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.” – Mylan CEO Heather Bresch
575. “Bringing great people onto your team is about demonstrating that size really doesn’t matter – people do.”
576. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
577. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
578. “Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.” – Zynga CEO Mark Pincus
579. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” – Fred Wilson, Venture Capitalist
580. “But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.
581. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napoleon Hill
582. “If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.” – Walt Disney
583. “Data beats emotions.”
584. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
585. “Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it” – Ryan Allis
586. “The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.” – Sergey Brin, co-founder, Google
587. “Great men are not born great, they grow great.” – Vito Corleone, The Godfather
588. “See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” — Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle
589. “Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.”
590. “Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” – Winston Churchill
591. “Today’s Accomplishments Were Yesterday’s Impossibilities.” – Robert H. Schuller, motivational speaker
592. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” – Peter F. Drucker
593. “Startups are the truest passion projects.” - Vinay Kanchan
594. “Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.” – Seth Godin
595. “Be so good they can’t ignore you” – Steve Martin
596. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
597. “Always give your best effort even when the odds are against you.”
598. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” — Jim Rohn
599. “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” – Peter Drucker
600. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb, Author
601. The purpose of business should be to make life better for people. – Unknown
602. “Action is the foundational key to all success.”
603. “I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have.”
604. “The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
605. “Achievement is talent plus preparation.” – Malcolm Gladwell
606. Robert H. Schuller: “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
607. “Success is the child of audacity.” – Benjamin Disraeli
608. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
609. “If you want to grow you have to do something different from the majority of people.”
610. “Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
611. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
612. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
613. “We dream of having a clean house—but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning?” – Marcus Buckingham
614. “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” – Eames, Inception
615. Abu Bakr: “Knowledge without action is meaningless”
616. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
617. “Setting Goal is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
618. “Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you.” – Michelle Obama
619. “If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.”
620. “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”
621. “Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.” – Deepak Chopra
622. “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” – Oscar Wilde
623. “Done is better than perfect.”
624. “Growth and comfort do not coexist.” ― Ginni Rometty
625. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does—that makes you a winner right there.” – Venus Williams
626. “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” - Albert Einstein
627. “If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.” — Will Rogers
628. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
629. “To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.”
630. “If you believe in yourself, you can do just about anything.” – Keith McCall, Founder and CEO of Pollen Systems
631. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.” – Jeff Bezos
632. “All our dreams can come true; if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
633. “An entrepreneur is someone who has a vison for something and a want to create” – Kyle Bragger
634. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel
635. “Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.” – Thelma Harper
636. “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” — Warren Buffett
637. “Be an amateur. Not everything you do has to be good, especially at first.”― Ann Handley
638. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” – Google cofounder Larry Page
639. “I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.” – Jay-Z
640. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” - Thomas Edison
641. “The best way to predict your future is to create it”
642. “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”
643. “Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.” – Chris Dixon, Angel Investor
644. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
645. “Someday is not a day of the week.” – Janet Dailey
646. “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” – J. Paul Getty
647. “Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” – Zig Ziglar
648. “Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.”
649. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” Bill Gates, Co-founder of Microsoft
650. “It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”
651. “Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.” – Scott Adams
652. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln
653. “A minute’s success pays the failure of years.” – Robert Browning
654. “Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise”
655. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader” – Fred Wilson
656. “You don't build a business, you build people, then people build the business.”
657. “Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.” — Angelo Sotira, co-founder of deviantART
658. “Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.”
659. “Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share.”― Ginni Rometty
660. “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” — Lisa Stone, co-founder and CEO of BlogHer
661. “Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”
662. “Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.” — Jason Calacanis
663. “You want to know who your real friends are? Start your own business and ask for their support.” – Steve Jobs
664. “Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to like.”
665. “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” – Frank Zappa
666. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” — Karen Lamb, author
667. You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day. – Jeffrey Gitomer, Author and Professional Speaker
668. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”
669. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” - Henry David Thoreau
670. “I like to say it’s an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.”
671. “The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.” - Mark Twain
672. “The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.” –Malcolm Forbes
673. “If you don't love what you do, you won’t do it with much conviction or passion.” - Mia Hamm
674. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
675. “Make a Customer, Not a sale.”
676. “Don’t give up, the beginning is always the hardest.”
677. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
678. “There are many things you can do overnight but there is no overnight success.”
679. “If you look really closely, most overnight successes took a long time” – Steve Jobs
680. “Remain a lifelong student. Don’t lose that curiosity.”
681. “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi
682. “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!” – Henry Ford
683. “The Golden Rule for Every Business is this: Put Yourself in your Customer’s Place.”
684. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
685. “There is no substitute for hard work.” — Thomas Edison
686. “Fortune befriends the bold.” – Emily Dickinson
687. “Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try.” – Unknown
688. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
689. “Be the change you wish to see in the world” – Mahatma Gandhi
690. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville, American novelist
691. The key to success is action.
692. “Anything that is measured and watched, improves” – Bob Parsons
693. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning” – Bill Gates
694. “A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.”
695. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” — Thomas Edison
696. Unknown: “Never underestimate the power of a t-shirt.”
697. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair, real-estate developer
698. “See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” — Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle
699. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
700. “Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
701. “What we do in life echoes in eternity.” – Maximus, from Gladiator
702. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
703. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” – Drew Houston
704. “If everything is a priority, nothing is.” – Yuri van der Sluis
705. “The secret of success in any field is redefining what success means to you.” – RuPaul
706. “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration” – Thomas Edison
707. “You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.” — Peter Shankman, founder of HARO
708. “The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
709. “Can’t forget you only get what you give.” – New Radicals
710. “Capital isn’t scarce. Vision is.”
711. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over” – Richard Branson
712. “Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company”
713. “Customers may forget what you said but they’ll never forget how you made them feel.”
714. “You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.”
715. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
716. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”— Robert Kiyosaki
717. “Every time you spend money you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want.” – Anna Lappé
718. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” – Scott Belsky
719. “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.” – Babe Ruth
720. “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”― Stephen King
721. “You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good” – Peter Shankman
722. “I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
723. “Satisfaction is a rating. Loyalty is a brand.”
724. “If we did all the things we were capable of, we would astound ourselves” – Thomas Edison, inventor
725. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
726. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”
727. “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” – Babe Ruth
728. “Never give up. Great things take time.”
729. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
730. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” – Alexander Graham Bell
731. “Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.” – Mario Buatta
732. “Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.” – Marcelene Cox
733. “I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey
734. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
735. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.” — Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States
736. “I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
737. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.” – Benjamin Franklin
738. “The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.”
739. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw, playwright
740. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” ― Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor
741. “Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.” – Jim Rohn
742. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
743. “Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors” – Chris Dixon
744. “Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.” ―Mary Anne Radmacher, author
745. To keep a customer demands as much skill as to win one. – American Proverb
746. “Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard.” – Margaret Culkin Banning
747. “Make each day your masterpiece.” — John Wooden, American basketball player
748. “Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely on my tenacity.”
749. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine
750. “Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” – John F. Kennedy
751. “Carpe per diem – seize the check.” – Robin Williams
752. “Impatience never commanded success.” – Edwin H. Chapin
753. “Avoiding mistakes costs more than making them.” Omer Shai, CMO of Wix.com
754. “If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new.” – Jeff Bezos
755. “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have”
756. “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” - Oprah Winfrey
757. “Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling that performing.”
758. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.”
759. “Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish.”
760. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” Sigmund Freud, Neurologist
761. “You are not your resume, you are your work.” – Seth Godin
762. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
763. “Luck is what you have leftover after you give 100%.” – Langston Coleman
764. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticised anyway.”
765. “If you define yourself by how you differ from the competition, you’re probably in trouble.” — Omar Hamoui
766. “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%” – Rob Kalin
767. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk
768. “Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.”
769. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
770. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
771. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates
772. “”I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey
773. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” — Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
774. “I try not to make decisions that I’m not excited about” – Jake Nickell
775. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
776. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot
777. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
778. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem
779. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” – Stephen Hawking
780. “Behind every small business, there’s a story worth knowing.” – Paul Ryan, politician
781. “If you don’t have big dreams and goals, you’ll end up working for someone that does” – Unknown
782. “Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”
783. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney
784. “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
785. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it” – Henry David Thoreau
786. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
787. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
788. “The beauty of the business is, you don’t need to think about the eligibility.” – Zahirul M Islam
789. “Carpe per diem—seize the check.” – Robin Williams
790. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
791. “It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.”
792. “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” – Warren Buffett
793. “Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.” — Meg Whitman
794. “Business has only two functions – marketing and Innovation.”
795. “You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.”
796. “Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.” – Unknown
797. “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier, author
798. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” – Henry Ford
799. “Someday is not a day of the week.” – Janet Dailey, novelist
800. Customer service shouldn't just be a department, it should be the entire company. – Tony Hsieh, CEO Zappos
801. “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity” ― Sun-Tzu, A Arte da Guerra
802. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do” – Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple
803. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” – Thomas A. Edison
804. “Preparation doesn’t assure victory, it assures confidence.” – Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Worlds
805. “Failure is success if we learn from it.” – Malcolm Forbes, American entrepreneur and publisher of Forbes magazine
806. “Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.” – William George Jordan
807. “Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, trans-formative success is.” – Seth Godin
808. “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – William Feather
809. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”
810. “Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.”―Meg Whitman
811. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
812. “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” – Lisa Stone, BrainTrust Founders Studio founder
813. “No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work.” — Jonathan Sacks
814. “I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.” — Jake Nickell, founder and CEO of Threadless
815. “Individually we are one drop, but together we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro
816. “An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.” – David Karp, Founder of Tumblr.
817. “All you have in business is your reputation – So it’s very important that you keep your work.”
818. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”
819. “If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.”
820. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill
821. “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.” - Virginia Rometty
822. “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” – Teddy Roosevelt
823. “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.” – Tom Brokaw, Journalist
824. “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”
825. “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”
826. Unknown: “Remember why you started.”
827. “Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.”
828. “Don’t deliver a product, deliver an experience.”
829. “They succeed, because they think they can.” – Virgil
830. “For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” – Walter Scott
831. “Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.” – John Ciardi
832. “The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand
833. “There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.” – Mahatma Gandhi.
834. “It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.”
835. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
836. “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
837. “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.” – Oprah Winfrey
838. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
839. “Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.” ― Bernard Branson
840. “Much effort, much prosperity.” – Euripides
841. “Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.” – Jason Calacanis, Tech VC
842. Share your "why"
843. “I like to say it’s an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.”― Safra A. Catz
844. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me?”
845. “Longevity is a fleeting moment that lasts forever.”
846. “I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.”
847. “Stay self-funded as long as possible” – Garrett Camp
848. “Failure is not about insecurity, it’s about lack of execution.”
849. Warren Buffett: “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
850. “To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.”
851. “Don’t count the days, Make the days count.”
852. “A company is only as good as the people it keeps.” -Mary Kay Ash
853. “Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.” — Michael Dell
854. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea” – Larry Page
855. “A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.” – Unknown
856. “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George S. Patton
857. “Business in a combination of War and sport.” – Andre Maurois
858. “Patience: This is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.”
859. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
860. “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination and more drive.”
861. “My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.”
862. “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” – Phil Knight
863. “Great companies are built on great products.” – Elon Musk
864. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” ― Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor
865. “Happy employees lead to happy customers, which leads to more profits.” – Vaughn Aust, COO, Gemini
866. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou
867. “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.” – Paul Rand, Designer of IBM and UPS logo.
868. “A winner never stops trying.”
869. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” – Sheryl Sandberg
870. “Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, Do what is great while it is small.”
871. “There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” – Seth Godin
872. “Creative without strategy is called art. Creative with strategy is called advertising.” – Jeff I. Richards
873. “Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”
874. “Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.” — Joel Spolsky
875. “Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.” — Michael Arrington
876. “Nothing works better than just improving your product” – Joel Spolsky
877. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll, author
878. “I do not know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.” – Susan Butcher, sled dog racer
879. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” - Albert Einstein
880. “The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.” – John C. Maxwell
881. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
882. “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
883. “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
884. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney, founder of the Disney Brother Studio and Disneyland
885. “Great experience is made up of challenges.” – Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
886. “You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” – Indira Gandhi
887. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
888. “If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.”
889. Don't x-ray people's pockets. You provide value and people will pay.
890. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”
891. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” — Babe Ruth, American professional baseball player
892. “Take risks. Failure is a stepping stone to success.” – Arianna Huffington, co-founder of Huffington Post
893. “Nothing inspires cleanliness more than an unexpected guest.” – Radhika Mundra
894. “You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.” – Jim Rohn
895. “If you want it bad enough, you have to be willing to fight for it.”
896. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
897. “Everything started as nothing.”
898. “A vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.” – AOL cofounder Steve Case
899. “Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.”
900. “Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.” – Mark Cuban
901. “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.” – Unknown
902. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
903. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it” – Estee Lauder
904. “Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow.” – Anthony Robbins
905. “If everything is a priority, nothing is.” – Yuri van der Sluis, Sales Improvement Consultant
906. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
907. “Don’t worry, I’m not quitting. I’ve decided I’m going to stay and
908. “A big business starts small.” – Richard Branson
909. “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team”
910. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
911. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin
912. “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”
913. “An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.”
914. “Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?”
915. “When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.”
916. “He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.”
917. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” Dale Carnegie
918. “The biggest mistake a small business can make is to think like a small business.”
919. “Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.” – Joel Spolsky, Trello CEO
920. “Do not follow where the path might lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.”
921. “Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.” – Designer Jeffrey Zeldman
922. “I don’t build to have clients. I have clients in order to build.” – The Fountainhead
923. “Don’t worry about failure. You only have to be right once.” — Drew Houston
924. “For maximum attention, nothing beats a good mistake.” – Unknown
925. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” – Jack Dorsey
926. “Failure is success in progress.” – Albert Einstein
927. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
928. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” – Ralph Marston
929. “Beware of any enterprise requiring new clothes.” – Henry David Thoreau
930. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rodgers
931. “The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new” – Socrates
932. “Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway.“ – Robert Downey Jr., American actor
933. “Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” – Peter Drucker
934. “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.” – Frank Ocean
935. “Only love can save this world. So I stay, I fight, and give. This is my mission now. Forever”
936. “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” – Zig Ziglar
937. “Details create the big picture.” -Sanford I. Weill
938. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson
939. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin
940. “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity”
941. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it” – Thomas Edison
942. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” — Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company
943. “Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.” – Michael Dell, Founder of Dell computers
944. “Anything that is measured and watched, improves.” – Bob Parsons
945. Bo Schembechler: “The Team! The Team! The Team!”
946. Be helpful — even if there's no immediate profit in it. – Susan Ward, Small Business Expert and Writer
947. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
948. “Always deliver more than expected.”
949. Albert Einstein: “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
950. “To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants!”
951. “Details create the big picture.” – Sanford I. Weill, former CEO of Citigroup
952. “A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.” – Charles Schwab
953. “In order to succeed. We must first believe that we can.”
954. “When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.”
955. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” – Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures
956. “Emotional intelligence is the ability to use emotion to increase your own and others’ success.”
957. “The only way around is through.” – Robert Frost
958. “If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.”
959. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
960. “Anything that is measured and watched, improves.” — Bob Parsons, founder of GoDaddy
961. “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.” — Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
962. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t — you’re right.”
963. “There is little success where there is little laughter.” – Andrew Carnegie
964. “The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.” — Richard Bach, American writer
965. “Success is survival.” – Leonard Cohen
966. “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” – Peter Drucker
967. “My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” – Ted Turner
968. “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.” – Mahatma Gandhi
969. “Stay self-funded as long as possible.”
970. “I would prefer a sword to fight duel, but a pen to plan a war.”
971. “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.”
972. “If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. ”
973. “Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”
974. “Talent can be hired, money has to be earned. ” – Vishnu, Hindu God of Preservation
975. “We need to keep our small businesses healthy in order to keep our economy strong.” – Keith Haynes
976. “First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.”
977. “Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.” – Sir Claus Moser, British statistician
978. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” – George Kneller
979. “Longevity is a fleeting moment that lasts forever.” – Vidal Sassoon
980. “Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.” – Warren Bennis
981. “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” Phil Knight, Founder of Nike
982. Steve Martin: “Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
983. “Failure is success if we learn from it.” – Malcolm Forbes
984. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates, Co-founder Microsoft
985. John A. Shedd: “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
986. “You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.” - Jessica Herrin
987. “Always deliver more than expected.” — Larry Page, co-founder of Google
988. “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late” – Reid Hoffman
989. People expect good service but few are willing to give it. – Robert Gately, President Gately Consulting
990. “If you want to grow you have to do something different from the majority of people.” — Lakshmi Mittal
991. “Good things come to those who shop local.” – Melinda Lemay.
992. “I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars — I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”
993. “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all” – Michael LeBoeuf
994. “Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.”
995. “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
996. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
997. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
998. “Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.” – Noah Everett
999. “When you find an idea that you can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue” – Josh James
1000. “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”
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