50 Motivational Business Quotes

50 Motivational Business Quotes. Sometimes when you’re running a business you hit a rough spot. Business may be slow, the future may seem uncertain and you just feel lost. That’s just the time when you need motivational quotes to get your heart racing again and build your confidence back up.



With that in mind I hope these 50 motivational quotes will give you the incentive you need to keep going.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading: buying and selling. – Anita Roddick

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel
In business, I’ve discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That’s my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards. – Donald Trump

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. – Harold Geneen

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Thomas Watson, Sr.

I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. – Donald Trump
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. – Charles Dickens

I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. – Robert Bosch

People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps. – Mary Kay Ash

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. – Tryon Edwards
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. – Henry Ford

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. – Epictetus

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making. – B.C. Forbes

The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything”. I say, “Only one man can do anything.” – John W. Gardner

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. – Bill Gates

Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day. – Francis Gray

Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum. – Jeffrey Immelt

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. – Napoleon Hill

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

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. – Ingvar Kamprad

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations. – Steve Jobs

You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance. – Lee Iacocca

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It’s no different in the financial realm. – Suze Orman

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. – Confucius

The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell. – Andrew Carnegie

Hire character. Train skill. – Peter Schutz

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. – Babe Ruth

Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing. – Magic Johnson

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. – James Thurber

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. – Carlos Castaneda

The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. – Blaine Lee

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

To the degree we’re not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. – Peter McWilliams

The enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth-persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. – John F. Kennedy

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others.. or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. – Calvin Coolidge

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. – Henry J. Kaiser

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi

Long-range planning works best in the short term. – Doug Evelyn

The NBA is never just a business. It’s always business. It’s always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal. – Mark Cuban

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. – Joseph E. Levine

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

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. – Peter F. Drucker

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. – Laurence Sterne

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. – David Rockefeller

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman. – George Soros

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

If you did not look after today’s business then you might as well forget about tomorrow. – Isaac Mophatlane
I hope these motivational business quotes have inspired you. Feel free to share any favorite motivational business quotes that you may have.