These are some of my favorite business quotes from some of my favorite entrepreneurs, executives, and industrialists. These entrepreneur quotes are a great source for learning and inspiration! Enjoy!
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” – Steve Jobs
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk
“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.” – Larry Page
“Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.” – Sergey Brin
“Stand by your principles and be comfortable with confrontation. So few people are, so when the people with the red tape come, it becomes a negotiation.” – Travis Kalanick
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
“I don’t care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.” – Cornelius Vanderbilt
“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.” – J.P. Morgan
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” – John D. Rockefeller
“I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.” – Larry Ellison
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” – Andrew Carnegie
“Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.” – Cyrus McCormick Sr.
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
“If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you’ll rarely be disappointed.” – Pierre Omidyar
“A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.” – Jeff Bezos
“You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.” – Steve Case
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
“You know how I’m smart? I got people around me who know more than I do.” — Louis B. Meyer
“Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” – Phil Knight
“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” – Sam Walton
“You must be very patient, very persistent. The world isn’t going to shower gold coins on you just because you have a good idea. You’re going to have to work like crazy to bring that idea to the attention of people.” – Herb Kelleher
“If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale – more customers.” – Fred W. Smith
“This is a business. The purpose of a business is to make money. If it happens to make art, too, that would be secondary and accidental.” – Howard Hughes
“You cannot work with men who won’t work with you.” – J.H. Kellogg
“What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.” – George Eastman
“You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.” – Michael Dell
“When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.” – Charles M. Schwab
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.” – Martha Stewart
“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.” – Andrew Grove
“Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.” – Meg Whitman
“Control your own destiny or someone else will.” – Jack Welch
“You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” – Ted Turner
“I play to win, whether during practice or in a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.” – Michael Jordan
“You have to treat your employees like customers.” – Herb Kelleher
“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” – Henry Ford
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we much fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” – Pablo Picasso
“If you cannot be positive, then at least be quiet.” – Joel Osteen
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now ald live the rest of your life as a champion.’ – Muhammad Ali
“A good plan violently executed now is better that a perfect plan executed next week.” – George S. Patton
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
“Don’t worry about those that talk behind your back. There are there for a reason.” – Unknown
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William H. Ward
“There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.” – Unknown
“The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet, our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.” – Don Williams
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” – Michael Jordan
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others succeed.” – Napoleon Hill
“Priorities: When someone tells you they are too ‘busy’…It’s not a reflection of their schedule; it’s a reflection of YOUR spot on their schedule.” – Steve Maraboli
This is Patrick Henry, CEO of QuestFusion, with The Real Deal…What Matters.