20 Business Quotes for Entrepreneurs



As we near the close of the year, here are some amazing quotes to keep you motivated, inspired and encouraged. 

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

Thomas Watson Sr., chairman and CEO of International Business Machines

“I may be over the top on this, but I just don’t want to like my competitors. I want my people to believe that whenever he and our other competitors succeed, we will be less able to do all the things we want to do.”

Phil Knight, chairman emeritus of Nike

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

Napoleon Hill, author of  “Think and Grow Rich”

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

— Wayne Huizenga, prolific American business person, owner of Blockbuster Video and the Miami Dolphins

 “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently… A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”

Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Co.

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

Thomas Edison, American inventor and businessman

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

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple

“You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”

Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple

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

Bill Gates, founder and CEO of Microsoft

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

— Larry Page, co-founder of Google

“My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long university education that I never had—every day I’m learning something new.”

Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group

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

Walt Disney, founder of Disney

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

— Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Co

“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple

 “Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”

Mario Andretti, American race car driver

 “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”

Vince Lombardi, executive, head coach, and NFL player

“As ever, the accountant in me saw the risk, the entrepreneur saw the possibility. So I split the difference and kept moving forward.”

Phil Knight, chairman emeritus of Nike 

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

—Tony Robbins, businessman, author, and philanthropist.

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

— Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks

There you have it, 20 quotes to fuel you.

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