Starting a business is one of the most difficult things to do. And when we do, succeeding becomes another hurdle riddled with constant failures. Often, most young promising entrepreneurs and business people end up giving up and their ventures winding up. Sometimes, what we need is a little push, a shoulder to lean on and words of encouragement from not only our family and friends but also from people who have succeeded in the business world. Business quotes are a form of encouragement what we can digest and use to propel our own successes.
Here are some of the best business quotes.
- “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” – Fred Wilson
- “All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.” – Reid Hoffman
- “Always deliver more than expected.” – Larry Page
- “Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.” – Mark Cuban
- “Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.” – Lakshmi Mittal
- “An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.” – David Karp
- “Anything that is measured and watched, improves.” – Bob Parsons
- “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.” – Anthony Volodkin
- “Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.” – Michael Arrington
- “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller
- “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” – Tony Hsieh
- “Data beats emotions.” – Sean Rad
- “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs
- “Diligence is the mother of good luck.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.” – Tony Hsieh
- “Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.” – Tony Hsieh
- “Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give – with a few exceptions – generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.” – Ben Silbermann
- “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.” – Paul Rand
- “Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.” – Noah Everett
- “Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.” – Jeffrey Zeldman
- “Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.” – Sara Blakely
- “Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.” – Joel Spolsky
- “Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.” – Angelo Sotira
- “Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.” – Jason Calacanis
- “Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.” – Kyle Bragger
- “Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.” – Chris Dixon
- “Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.” – Mark Pincus
- “Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined and connected to one another. And, when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.” – Daniel Pink
- “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder
- “I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.” – Jake Nickell
- “Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.” – Michael Dell
- “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” – Guy Kawasaki
- “If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.” – Zig Ziglar
- “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” – Reid Hoffman
- “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.” – Jeff Bezos
- “If you define yourself by how you differ from the competition, you’re probably in trouble.” – Omar Hamoui
- “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.” – Ryan Freitas
- “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams
- “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.” – Steve Case
- “It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.” – Jason Cohen
- “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” – Scott Belsky
- “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” – Jack Dorsey
- “Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” – Golda Meir
- “Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.” – Tim O’Reilly
- “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.” – Reid Hoffman
- “No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the week.” – Spencer Fry
- “Nothing works better than just improving your product.” – Joel Spolsky
- “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” – Howard Schultz
- “See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” – Larry Ellison
- “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” – Wayne Huizenga
- “Stay self-funded as long as possible.” – Garrett Camp
- “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.” – Reid Hoffman
- “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
- “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” – Rob Kalin
- “The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.” – Ingvar Kamprad
- “The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.” – Socrates
- “The stars will never align, and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.” – Tim Ferriss
- “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” – Thomas Edison
- “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.” – Jason Fried
- “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” – Biz Stone
- “What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.” – Dave Thomas
- “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.” – Josh James
- “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.” – Henry Ford
- “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” – Lisa Stone
- “You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.” – Peter Shankman
- “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” – Larry Page
- “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
- “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
