1,000 Inspirational Corporate Life Quotes (2023)
1. “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”
2. There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. — David Letterman
3. “If we did all the things we were capable of, we would astound ourselves” – Thomas Edison, inventor
4. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
5. “Someday is not a day of the week.” – Janet Dailey
6. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar
7. If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work. — Woody Allen
8. “Successful people wants to achieve the peaks to keep them open to any choice of life. It's not easy at all.”
9. It's not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts. —Brian White
10. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” ―Walt Disney
11. The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it. — Groucho Marx
12. “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” —William Feather, publisher and author
13. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
14. “Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it." —Katherine Whitehorn
15. “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli
16. “Lean in, speak out, have a voice in your organization, and never use the word, ‘sorry’.” ―Trish Bertuzzi
17. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” —John D. Rockefeller, oil industry business magnate
18. “All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” – Aristotle
19. “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” — Henry Ford
20. “Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage.” —Unknown
21. “After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are.” —Shrek, Shrek the Third
22. “Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.” – Seth Godin
23. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” — Dalai Lama
24. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder
25. “When you serve the customer better, they always return on your investment.”
26. “See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” — Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle
27. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”
28. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
29. “If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.”
30. “Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.” — Jason Calacanis
31. An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. — Niels Bohr
32. “Success is survival.” – Leonard Cohen
33. “Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.” – John Ciardi
34. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
35. I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend, than be one. — Clarence Darrow
36. “Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.”
37. “Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” – C. S. Lewis
38. “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” —Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
39. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
40. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”
41. “Business is all about relationships, how well you build them determines how well they build your business.”
42. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” – Henry Ford
43. “Death offers freedoms that do not exist in modern corporate societies.”
44. “If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right.” —Childish Gambino
45. “Small opportunities are often beginning of great achievements.”
46. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” —Steve Jobs
47. “Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.” — Tony Robbins
48. “Don’t be evil” – Larry Page
49. “Fortune befriends the bold.” – Emily Dickinson
50. Getting paid to sleep... that's my dream job. –Unknown
51. “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
52. “It always seems impossible, until it is done.”
53. “Beware of any enterprise requiring new clothes.” – Henry David Thoreau
54. “Every company’s greatest assets are its customers because without customers there is no company.”
55. “A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” —Sonia Sotomayor
56. “Customer don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.”
57. I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. —Lou Holtz
58. Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet. —Robert H. Schuller
59. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” —Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company
60. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
61. “In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.” – Miguel de Cervantes
62. “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.”
63. Sometimes I spend the whole meeting wondering how they got the big meeting table through the door. — Anonymous
64. Walt Disney: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
65. “The most successful entrepreneurs I know are optimistic. It’s part of the job description.” ― Caterina Fake
66. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
67. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather, become a man of value.” —Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
68. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder
69. “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.” – Jason Fried
70. “I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally.”
71. “Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
72. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” —Charles R. Swindoll, author, educator, and radio preacher
73. “Great men are not born great, they grow great.” —Vito Corleone, The Godfather
74. “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination and more drive.”
75. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
76. “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.” — Steve Case, co-founder of AOL
77. Time is an illusion. Lunchtime is doubly so. – Douglas Adams
78. “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” —Pablo Picasso
79. “Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way.” – Vera Wang
80. I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock. — Henny Youngman
81. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” —Louise Hay
82. “They succeed, because they think they can.” – Virgil
83. Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor. – John Ciardi
84. “The corporate myth is over. If you’ve spent years climbing the corporate ladder,
85. “Teamwork is not just working with each other, it is trusting each other.”
86. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large” – Jeff Bezos
87. “Modern corporate controlled governments are making Adolf Hitler look like an amateur.”
88. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. – Earl Nightingale
89. “Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.” – Henry Ford
90. “No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.” —Billie Jean King
91. “You must not only aim right but draw the bow with all your might.”
92. “The beauty of the business is, you don’t need to think about the eligibility.” – Zahirul M Islam
93. “”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
94. “Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki
95. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
96. “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” – Phil Knight
97. “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.” ―Mortimer J. Adler
98. “Don’t feel sorry for yourself, only assholes do that.” —Haruki Murakami
99. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” – Stephen Hawking
100. “It’s not about how to get started; it’s about how to get noticed.” – Steve Case, former CEO of America Online
101. “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” – Oscar Wilde
102. “Corporate vandalism of Space is well underway.”
103. “Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.” —Sean Maguire, Good Will Hunting
104. “A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.” ― George Meredith
105. “A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” – Richard Branson
106. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk
107. “The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.” – Harvey S. Firestone
108. “I like to say it’s an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.”― Safra A. Catz
109. If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you. – Steven Wright
110. If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter. — John Gotti
111. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem
112. I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. — Bill Gates
113. “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.” – Unknown
114. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” —Og Mandino, author
115. “No man can be successful, unless he first loves his work.” – David Sarnoff, late CEO of RCA
116. “If your business is not on the internet then your business will be out of business.”
117. “I do not know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.” – Susan Butcher, sled dog racer
118. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
119. “Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” —Vince Lombardi
120. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
121. “The more I want to get something done ,the less I call it work.” —Richard Bach, writer
122. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot
123. “It’s not about better time management. It’s about better life management” — Alexandra of The Productivity Zone
124. “If you can't yet do great things, do small things in a great way.” ―Napoleon Hill
125. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” -Arnold H. Glasgow
126. “Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.”
127. “Any time is a good time to start a company.” – Ron Conway, Founder and Co-Managing Partner of SV Angel
128. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. – Tim Notke
129. “Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.” – Tony Robbin
130. “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” – J. Paul Getty
131. “Never Give up. Today is hard and tomorrow will be Worse, but the day after Tomorrow will be Sunshine.”
132. ”It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
133. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”
134. “Always deliver more than expected.” – Larry Page, Co-Founder of Google
135. “When in doubt, choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.” —Anna Quindlen, Author
136. “Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself.” ―Jason Fried
137. “Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.” – Earl Nightingale
138. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
139. “A company is only as good as the people it keeps.” -Mary Kay Ash
140. “There are no working hours for leaders.”
141. “I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes.” —Barbara Elaine Smith
142. “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
143. “You can go into any big corporation with clarity and confidence of your skills and knowledge and get job without degree.”
144. “When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.”—Norman Vincent Peale
145. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
146. “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
147. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Edison
148. Hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil—and you’ll never get a job working for a tabloid. – Phil Pastoret
149. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” —Estee Lauder, founder of Estee Lauder Cosmetics (Click to tweet)
150. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” – Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures
151. “You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”
152. The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. — Sarah Brown
153. “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” — Warren Buffett
154. “Great customer service is a critical competitive advantage for a business.”
155. “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” —Stephen Covey
156. “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”
157. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
158. “Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.”
159. “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.” —Gore Vidal
160. “Value those people who keep value & respect of organization's product.”
161. “Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.” —Kurt Vonnegut
162. “Success is best when it’s shared.” – Howard Schultz
163. “Failure is success in progress.” – Albert Einstein
164. “Make the customer the hero of your story.”
165. “If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.”
166. “Responsibility’ precedes ‘Success”
167. Oprah Winfrey: “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.”
168. Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say. – Andy Stanley
169. “Get big quietly so you don’t tip off potential competitors.” —Chris Dixon, investor at Andreessen Horowitz (Click to tweet)
170. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
171. “Business in a combination of War and sport.” – Andre Maurois
172. “They were looking to climb the corporate ladder, whereas I wanted to build and own corporate ladders.”
173. “Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for doing it.” —Katharine Whitehorn
174. “Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.” — Kyle Bragger
175. “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.” – Mahatma Gandhi
176. “A winner never stops trying.”
177. “Stay self-funded as long as possible.” – Garrett Camp, Founder of Expa, Uber and StumbleUpon
178. “You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.” — George Lorimer
179. “Anything that is measured and watched improves.” – Bob Parsons, Founder of GoDaddy and CEO of Parsons Xtreme Golf
180. “Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, trans-formative success is.” – Seth Godin
181. “Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” ―Anne Lamott
182. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.” —Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon (Click to tweet)
183. “My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.” – Oscar Wilde
184. “The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.” ―Epicurus
185. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. —Jon Stewart
186. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight Eisenhower
187. “Stay self-funded as long as possible.” — Garrett Camp
188. “You should not be surprised that a toxic corporate controlled government runs a fraudulent disability system.”
189. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
190. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.” —Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States (Click to tweet)
191. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson
192. “Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.”―Meg Whitman
193. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
194. “I kept an open mind to the possibility that the doctors were just as corrupt as the corporate controlled medical system.”
195. “You will never be completely ready. Start from wherever you are.”
196. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen Covey, educator, author, and businessman
197. “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin
198. “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin
199. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” —Les Brown
200. Thomas Edison: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
201. My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job. – Ted Turner
202. “Responsibility precedes Success”
203. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”— Colin R. Davis
204. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” Dale Carnegie
205. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison
206. “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher
207. “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” – Phil Knight, founder, Nike
208. “If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.” ―Jim Rohn
209. “The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell.” – Andrew Carnegie
210. “The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.” – Thomas Watson
211. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
212. “In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.”
213. “There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” – Seth Godin
214. “If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late.” – James Goldsmith
215. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney
216. “You don’t need to have a 100–person company to develop that idea.” – Larry Page, co-founder of Google
217. “There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue these.” —Michael Nolan
218. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
219. “Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” — Golda Meir
220. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
221. “Success is the sum of small efforts—repeated day in and day out.” —Robert Collier, author
222. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” — Will Rogers
223. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
224. “Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway.“ —Robert Downey Jr., actor
225. “Growth and comfort do not coexist.” ― Ginni Rometty
226. “The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
227. “Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.” — Jim Rohn
228. Unknown: “You have to believe it before you see it.”
229. A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time. — William C. Feather
230. “Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.” – Napoleon Hill
231. “Data beats emotions.” —Sean Rad, founder of Tinder (Click to tweet)
232. “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” —Sydney Harris, journalist
233. “Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.”
234. “I failed my way to success.”
235. “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”— Tony Hsieh
236. “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
237. “The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.” – Sergey Brin, co-founder, Google
238. “I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.” – Jonathan Winters
239. “In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.” – Montesquieu
240. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” – Drew Houston, Co-Founder and CEO of Dropbox
241. “You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” —Zig Ziglar
242. It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.- Muhammad Ali
243. “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”
244. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” —Larry Page, co-founder of Google (Click to tweet)
245. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
246. “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller
247. “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” — Madam C.J. Walker
248. “If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.” —Eddie Colla
249. A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. - Fats Domino
250. “People's passion and desire for authenticity is strong.” —Constance Wu
251. “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” – Peter Drucker
252. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ―George Bernard Shaw, playwrighter
253. “Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.” – Edward Dowden
254. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ―Winston Churchill
255. “Every man dies, but not every man really lives.” —William Wallace, Braveheart
256. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates
257. “You will be defined not just by what you achieve, but by how you survive.”―Sheryl Sandberg
258. “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” – Teddy Roosevelt
259. “You don’t build a business. You build people and people build the business.” — Zig Ziglar
260. “In partnership disputes, most of the partners will leave the alliance but not their arrogance”
261. “Details create the big picture.” -Sanford I. Weill
262. Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired. - Michel Tournier
263. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. —General George Patton
264. “There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.” – Oprah Winfrey
265. “The heart and soul of a company is creativity and innovation.” – Robert Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company
266. “The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.”
267. Delegate your work. Stop spending dollar time on penny jobs. — Mary Kay Ash
268. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
269. “Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” —Francis of Assisi
270. “If you support a corrupt corporate controlled government, please go ahead and pledge allegiance.”
271. “Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.” – Warren Bennis
272. “Setting Goal is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
273. Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. — Peter Drucker
274. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” —Winston Churchill
275. “Impatience never commanded success.” – Edwin H. Chapin
276. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill, author
277. “To think is easy, to act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth
278. “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”
279. I always give 100% at Work: 10% Monday, 23% Tuesday, 40% Wednesday, 22% Thursday, and 5% Friday. –Anonymous
280. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. – Scott Adams
281. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.”
282. “You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.”
283. “Opportunities don't happen, you create them.” — Chris Grosser
284. “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.”
285. The best way to predict the future is to create it. —Abraham Lincoln
286. “Word of mouth is the best medium of all.” – William Bernbach
287. “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne
288. “The Golden Rule for Every Business is this: Put Yourself in your Customer’s Place.”
289. “The only way around is through.” – Robert Frost
290. “The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand
291. “Corporate world has dirtiest cooks; serving cleanest ever politics.”
292. “Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.” — Michael Dell
293. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.
294. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
295. “Corporate irony; you will see the best of machines and worst of people ever.”
296. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
297. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” — Jack Dorsey
298. “The future depends on what you do today.” —Mahatma Gandhi
299. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” — Thomas Edison
300. “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”
301. “It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.”
302. “I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.” —Don Cheadle
303. “Corporate controlled governments are in the business of organized corruption.”
304. “Don’t worry about failure. You only have to be right once.” — Drew Houston
305. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” —Tina Fey
306. “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” – Zig Ziglar
307. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
308. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James
309. “Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable.” —Regina Brett, Author
310. “Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow.” – Anthony Robbins
311. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates
312. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” —Bo Jackson
313. “Always deliver more than expected.” — Larry Page, co-founder of Google
314. “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.” – Babe Ruth
315. People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. - Ogden Nash
316. “Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things” – David Ogilvy
317. “Make sure your own worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears.” —Laird Hamilton
318. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
319. “Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.” – William George Jordan, writer/editor
320. “In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value.”
321. The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. — Oscar Wilde
322. “If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy.” Mark Cuban
323. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot, author
324. “You are living in a rigged system of corporate controlled government.”
325. “Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.”
326. “Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.” – Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga
327. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty." — Winston Churchill
328. “Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.”
329. “Success is the child of audacity.” – Benjamin Disraeli
330. “Don’t be addicted to money. Work to learn. don’t work for money. Work for knowledge.” – Robert Kiyosaki
331. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud
332. “A minute’s success pays the failure of years.” – Robert Browning
333. “Make each day your masterpiece.” —John Wooden, basketball player
334. People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day! — Anonymous
335. “He who never makes an effort, never risks a failure.” —Anonymous
336. “My time in Florida was an education in corporate and government corruption.”
337. “There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there — you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee
338. “If you don’t feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.” —Paul F. Davis
339. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” — Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks
340. “Action is the foundational key to all success.”
341. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” —Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company (Click to tweet)
342. “Hire character. Train skill.” – Peter Schutz
343. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” — Fred Wilson
344. “There is no substitute for hard work.” — Thomas Edison
345. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” — Dhirubhai Ambani
346. “Get big quietly so you don’t tip off potential competitors.” – Chris Dixon, Co-Founder of Hunch
347. “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
348. “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.” —Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos (Click to tweet)
349. “Observe the people and you will notice many abnormal personalities in modern corporate controlled society.”
350. “The road to success is always under construction.”
351. The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. — Joe Girard
352. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn
353. “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.” – Frank Ocean
354. “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” – Dale Carnegie
355. “Men are born to succeed, not to fail.” – Henry David Thoreau
356. “The hippies became another corporate avatar, another mascot selling sugary cereal instead of free love.”
357. “The only one who can tell you “you can’t win” is you and you don’t have to listen.” —Jessica Ennis
358. “Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” – Confucius
359. “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi
360. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
361. The Backroads Bosslady: “Don’t risk more than you can afford to lose!”
362. “One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.”
363. “Longevity is a fleeting moment that lasts forever.”
364. “Success is never accidental.” – Jack Dorsey
365. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
366. A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure. — Henry Kissenger
367. “Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.” – Henry Ford
368. “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” —Benjamin Button, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
369. “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
370. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
371. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford
372. Unknown: “Life’s too short to learn from your own mistakes. So learn from others”
373. “Failure is success if we learn from it.” —Malcolm Forbes, entrepreneur and former publisher of Forbes magazine
374. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. – Charlie McCarthy
375. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” – Jack Dorsey, Co-Founder and former CEO of Twitter
376. “Business has only two functions – marketing and Innovation.”
377. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: The fear of failure.”
378. I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. — Jerome K. Jerome
379. “Tara has such passion for what she does!”
380. “Make a Customer, Not a sale.”
381. “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” – Julia Child
382. “Being denied disability payments shatters your faith in corporate government.”
383. “It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.” – Mahatma Gandhi
384. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”
385. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” —Seth Godin
386. “Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.”
387. “The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.” —David Hurley
388. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napoleon Hill
389. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
390. “Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share.”― Ginni Rometty
391. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey
392. John A. Shedd: “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
393. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
394. “See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” —Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle (Click to tweet)
395. It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
396. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” ―Benjamin Franklin
397. “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.” – Vince Lombardi
398. “What we do in life echoes in eternity.” —Maximus, Gladiator
399. “Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.” – Jim Rohn
400. “Nothing works better than just improving your product.” —Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow (Click to tweet)
401. “Bosses care to be in charge, leaders try to take care of those in their charge.”
402. “Election season is always a good time to openly discuss government and corporate corruption.”
403. “Women must learn to play the game as men do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
404. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
405. “Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.” ―David Ogilvy
406. “Be an amateur. Not everything you do has to be good, especially at first.”― Ann Handley
407. “Great companies are built on great products.” – Elon Musk
408. “Customers may forget what you said but they’ll never forget how you made them feel.”
409. “Great experience is made up of challenges.” – Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
410. “I don’t know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.” – Susan Butcher
411. “The continuation of success depends on greediness, patience, and dissatisfaction.” – Dhirendra Pandey
412. “Every problem is a gift — without problems we would not grow.” – Anthony Robbins
413. “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.’”
414. “I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey
415. “One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
416. “If people like you they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you they’ll do business with you.” — Zig Ziglar
417. “Consistent and limitless learning is the minimum requirement for being a money-making entrepreneur.”
418. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
419. “Latecomer deserves little, latecomer gets losses and leftovers.”
420. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” —Mark Twain
421. “Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.”
422. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart
423. “For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” – Walter Scott
424. “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Thomas Watson
425. If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. —Walt Disney
426. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” ―W. P. Kinsella
427. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” —Michael Jordan
428. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
429. Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? — Edgar Bergen
430. “Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.” — Gary Vaynerchuk
431. There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? -Kin Hubbard
432. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
433. “Only those deals get closed which you deserve.”
434. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” – Maya Angelou
435. “Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, Do what is great while it is small.”
436. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville
437. “Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.” – Oscar Wilde
438. What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. – Phyllis Diller
439. People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do." — Elbert Hubbard
440. “The American government keeps their citizens clueless to boost corporate profits.”
441. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” —Mae West
442. “Carpe per diem – seize the check.” – Robin Williams
443. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” ―Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor
444. “No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!” ― T D Jakes
445. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
446. “Capital isn’t scarce. Vision is.”
447. “Your Customer doesn’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
448. “Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.”
449. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder
450. “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” —Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of the United States
451. “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
452. “Dear Corrupt Corporate Controlled Government, We know when you are blatantly lying to us. Sincerely, Concerned Citizens.”
453. “Businesses built upon an idea of providing service will run longer than businesses built upon an idea of earning profit.”
454. “Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.” – Unknown
455. “I watch the news to keep a check on the latest corporate propaganda the masses are being fed.”
456. “Always deliver more than expected.” —Larry Page, co-founder of Google (Click to tweet)
457. “Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.”
458. “If you want to grow you have to do something different from the majority of people.” — Lakshmi Mittal
459. “You reach a point where you don’t work for money.” – Walt Disney
460. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
461. “The work environment is the collection of situational factors that form the corporate atmosphere.” ― glassdoor.com
462. “The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.”
463. “Nothing works better than just improving your product.” — Joel Spolsky
464. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen R. Covey
465. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
466. “I think I’m a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally.” – Naomi Klein
467. “High expectations are the key to absolutely everything.” – Sam Walton, late Founder of Walmart and Sam’s Club
468. Steve Martin: “Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
469. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” – Thomas A. Edison
470. “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
471. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
472. “Every problem is a gift — without problems we would not grow.” – Tony Robbins, motivational speaker and writer
473. If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.” – Betty Reese
474. “To promote one deserving & brilliant lady is itself a side of one open culture.”
475. “The sheepish will vote for Joe Biden and those against government and corporate corruption will vote for Bernie Sanders.”
476. The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. — Stanley J. Randall
477. “A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.” -Jeff Bezos
478. “Bosses care to be in charge, leaders take care of those in their charge.”
479. “To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.” – John H. Patterson
480. “Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.” – Michelle Obama
481. “The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.”
482. “Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
483. “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” – Lisa Stone
484. “This question unmasks motives. Eventually, corporate mission will conflict with personal ambition.”
485. “A business becomes successful when it becomes mutually beneficial for you and your customers.” – Pooja Agnihotri
486. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
487. “Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.” – Christopher Reeve
488. “Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”
489. “Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.” – Zig Ziglar
490. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”— Robert Kiyosaki
491. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
492. “The more customers you keep, the fewer customers you have to find.”
493. “The blatant lies that the corporate government engages in with the common people is obscene.”
494. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” —Herman Melville, novelist
495. “We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” — Albert Einstein
496. Why do people say they wish every day was Friday? If it was always Friday, we'd be here every freakin' day. — Ed Bernard
497. “The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.” — David Ricardo
498. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” —Kurt Cobain
499. “I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” — Jean-Francois Cope
500. “A mind that is stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
501. “It’s very easy to be different but very difficult to be better.” – Jonathan Ive, former chief design officer, Apple
502. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
503. “Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.” —Mia Hamm
504. “I would not have believed how bad the modern corporate healthcare system was had I not used it and saw it with my own eyes.”
505. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
506. “Patience: This is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.”
507. Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done. – Sam Ewing
508. “Business is the salt of life.”
509. “Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.” —Sir Claus Moser, statistician
510. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine
511. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” – George Kneller
512. “Wow! So beautiful. Which star? Planet, not star; It WAS called Earth.”
513. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
514. “Be a positive energy trampoline – absorb what you need and rebound more back.” — Dave Carolan
515. Be like a postage stamp. Stick to a thing till you get there. — Josh Billings
516. “If you believe the government and corporate propaganda about 5G being harmless, you are easily misled.”
517. Drew Houston: “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”
518. “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.” – Oprah Winfrey
519. “By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.”
520. “It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.” — Edmund Burke
521. My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I'm still at work. — Author Unknown
522. “A cover-up is my expectation when interacting with the government regarding illegal corporate activities.”
523. “Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you.” —Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos (Click to tweet)
524. “We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to-do’ list.” —Michelle Obama, former First Lady
525. “Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.” – David Ogilvy, Founder of Ogilvy & Mather
526. “The biggest mistake a small business can make is to think like a small business.”
527. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley
528. “Much effort, much prosperity.” – Euripides
529. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” – Madeleine Albright
530. “He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.” — Confucius
531. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” — Biz Stone
532. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” —Beverly Sills
533. A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job. — Zig Ziglar
534. “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” —John Keating, Dead Poets Society
535. “There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” – George Shinn
536. “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” —Lisa Stone, co-founder and CEO of BlogHer (Click to tweet)
537. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” —George Addair, real-estate developer
538. “I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have.”
539. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
540. “A company must cultivate more creators than consultants.”
541. “The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.”
542. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” —Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (Click to tweet)
543. “There is no substitute for victory.” – Douglas MacArthur
544. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” —Sheryl Sandberg
545. “In meetings philosophy might work,
546. “I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.” – Henry Ford
547. "The world is being run by savages wearing corporate business suits.” – Steven Magee
548. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at him.”
549. “Good order is the foundation of all things.”
550. “Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality” — Les Brown
551. “The first one gets the oyster, the second gets the shell.” – Andrew Carnegie
552. “To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.”
553. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures; learn from them and start again.” —Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group
554. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
555. “We must intertwine business and ethics in a very fundamental way.” — Robert Bruner
556. “An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.” -Dee Hock
557. You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. —Confucius
558. “As you move from job seeker to job creator, you move from wages to wealth.”
559. The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Vince Lombardi
560. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” — Zig Ziglar
561. “If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” —Mother Teresa, Nun and Missionary
562. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt
563. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” —Coco Chanel
564. “This is a book the corporate monopolies did not want you to read.”
565. “Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try.” – Unknown
566. “It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career." —Carlton Fisk
567. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
568. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” —Harry Golden, writer
569. “Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” – John F. Kennedy
570. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
571. “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” ―Cormac McCarthy
572. “Take risks. Failure is a stepping stone to success.”
573. Bo Schembechler: “The Team! The Team! The Team!”
574. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ―Theodore Roosevelt
575. “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” – Wayne Huizenga
576. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” —Oscar Wilde
577. “Unless you dream, you’re not going to achieve anything.” – Richard Branson
578. “In order to succeed. We must first believe that we can.”
579. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
580. “If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.” – Malcolm X
581. “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, and poet
582. “To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.”
583. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer
584. “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…” – Marcus Aurelius
585. “Keep an eye on the idiot in your team, if you don't see one, its you.”
586. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt