Top 99 Business Inspiration Quotes
#1. How will history judge us? Will our tales be sources of inspiration, or wells of caution?
Yunus D. Saleh
#2. Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need ... when you have no talent.
Dean Martin
#3. I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for - people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works.
Tim Harford
#4. For people who live in the imagination, there is no lack of subjects. To seek for the exact moment at which inspiration comes is false. Imagination floods us with suggestions all the time, from all directions.
Federico Fellini
#5. You are the guardian and custodian of your heart, remember this always!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#6. Sir Richard Branson is probably the best communicator ever. He was an inspiration for me - contrary to some reports, we've never done business together, although we did discuss an aviation venture very early on. I don't think easyJet competes with Virgin - we're in different areas.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#7. I was out loving life instead of in some office hating it
Desmond Ong
#8. Workplace culture is the heartbeat of an organization, and either yields energy and motivates people to pursue greatness or sucks the inspiration out of employees and slowly brings a business to a grinding halt.
Kevin E. Phillips
#9. Believe you can and you will be halfway there.
Lolly Daskal
#10. A plan that is not written is just an idea.
Dwain Siady
#11. Its easier to start a global business than a local one, make your business one where you can work from anywhere in the world
Roger James Hamilton
#12. In business, when things aren't working it's time to mix it up.
Donald Trump
#13. Don't tell your business until it becomes a testimony.
Garrett McCoy
#14. When it comes to busines ... I mean your business. Always remember you are the leader of your businesnot the Manager. You are the inspiration of your organization, you are the core that moves your business forward ... and this is your added value as a business owner.
Sameh Elsayed
#15. Do everything in your power to make customers go confidently in the direction of their purchase intention.
Laura Busche
#16. Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.
Robert Kiyosaki
#17. A master's (an artist's) Modus Vivendi is to guide his creative self on the path of generating ideas, in a synergistic work resonating with the client's needs and Universe inspiration.
VIRGIL PROFEANU
#18. There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors.
Robert Kiyosaki
#19. Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing.
Robert Kiyosaki
#20. Dani in front of me now is not the same person I'm dealing business with.
Of course I'm different. I'm not working now. I'm flirting.
Rin Ahmad
#21. Do an evening review at the end of the day to reflect on what went well, and what you'd do differently next time.
Marilyn Suttle
#22. Don't let your 'bad pride' prevent you from moving forward on an opportunity that will allow you to showcase your 'good pride'.
Bobby Darnell
#23. You don't need to chase wealth, just become a real entrepreneur and the world is your oyster.
Amah Lambert
#24. People will let you down in this business every single day. I think you'll be let down and disappointed more than you'll be accepted and excited. But you need to find ways to keep yourself inspired. This is mine. What's yours?
Jenna Mullins
#26. Make sure you test your brand story's recipe with whomever you're cooking it for.
Laura Busche
#27. Keep your thinking right and your business will be right.
Zig Ziglar
#28. Help me, Lord, in times when I am uninspired to see things differently.
Jennifer Allwood
#29. School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#30. Look at each failure as a deposit made into the account that will help you write the check for your next significant success.
Bobby Darnell
#31. People relate to people, and if your brand feels like people, they'll relate to you, too.
Laura Busche
#32. My father was an inspiration to me; I made a few movies with him and I loved working with him. Everything about him - his whole approach to work, as well as his love, enthusiasm and respect for it and other people in the business - was inspiring. I was very lucky to have him as a role model.
Hayley Mills
#33. Products shouldn't just work well, they must unfold well.
Laura Busche
#34. Lean brands are the result of continually testing assumptions.
Laura Busche
#35. If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.
Mark Cuban
#36. The path to success involves two parts. Part One is all about imagination and dreaming up a big idea. Part Two is all about having the diligence, the determination, and the tenacity needed to turn those dreams into reality. First comes the inspiration, then comes the perspiration.
Clay Clark
#37. I love that I have my own business and I can't wait to tell Charlie when she's old enough that I did it all with her as my inspiration.-Carla Palmer, Cheekie Charlie
Holly Hurd
#38. I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I'm not very patient myself. But I think that I've learned the most is be able to wait for something and get it when it's the right time.
Bernard Arnault
#39. What is the "Once upon a time" of your brand story? Ask yourself this: "How does what I'm building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow?
Laura Busche
#40. The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with ... the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.
George Bernard Shaw
#41. I had a cookie business there, with my brother, when we were growing up, called the Chip Yard, and that became the inspiration for the banana stand. My father said that he wanted us to develop a work ethic, so we'd sit there selling cookies, all day.
Mitchell Hurwitz
#42. But I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.
David Sedaris
#43. True wealth, success, and happiness can only be achieved by balancing our business life with the duty we have to our self and to our family.
Joseph C. Kunz Jr.
#44. Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings.
Laura Busche
#45. I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#46. Our place of birth is not so much as important as our place of berth, yet we can't moore. If we do we know our birthplace for the first time.
Amah Lambert
#47. Whatever business you have, if you truly believe in what you're doing, you're capable of going any place and doing anything. Pursue Your Dreams!
Rachel A. Olsen
#48. Always set your mind to think thoughts of victory even before the battle begins, this way you will experience limitless possibilities.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#49. The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.
Robert Kiyosaki
#51. Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world.
Sara Sheridan
#52. Don't think you are unstoppable or foolproof. Don't think that the only way your business will work is through perfection. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for success.
Eike Batista
#53. Your money habits and investment strategy is not all about what you do, but much about who you are. Become the person it takes to do, succeed, and innovate.
Amah Lambert
#54. Pinterest has been helpful to my business. Making inspiration boards is really key to developing products. When I was getting married, I literally cut out tear sheets and put my own boards together. Had I known about Pinterest, I would have been able to do it so much more easily.
Dylan Lauren
#55. This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.
Muhammad Yunus
#56. In today's saturated marketplace, you'll go nowhere selling a "bunch of features." We are in the business of disrupting the market with brands that matter.
Laura Busche
#57. The thrill of victory in business blows away the thrill of victory in sports. Business is a sport 24/7/365.
Mark Cuban
#58. All human aspirations are opportunities for brands to build relationships.
Laura Busche
#59. It's ever so important to believe in what you do, trust your ability to create and show yourself worthy. Never sell yourself short.
Simon Zingerman
#60. Everything and everyone represents at least one brand. Therefore, to brand or not to brand is not even a question.
Laura Busche
#61. There has to be a balance in life. A balance of business, family, and the opportunity to learn and teach.
Chuck Feeney
#62. Your brand story's "happily ever after" involves open wallets.
Laura Busche
#63. My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq
Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution
#64. The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes
Daniel R. Scoggin
#65. You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.
Anna Deavere Smith
#67. I would give up, but that will teach my kids that it's okay to be a failure and I refuse to ruin their lives like that!
Mignon' Talise Padilla
#68. Starting a business is easy, succeeding is a different story." Model Me VIP
Steven Cuoco
#69. Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.
Dolly Parton
#70. There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#71. Simply thinking creatively is not the same as being innovative, and only those who risk breaking out of their comfort zone by putting thought into action will discover the profusion of opportunity that exists.
Michael Lum
#73. When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
Ben Horowitz
#74. Procrastinating to embark on your passion is a risky business, because tomorrow may never come!
Alex Zar
#75. Part-time effort means part-tim results.
Tony Curl
#76. My 11 #books come without pomp n frills, for all seeking #true #meaning & unafraid of overcoming past conditioning. #Rewards are infinite
Michael Levy
#77. Brand and product don't compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you.
Laura Busche
#78. Ideas ... [are] like babies - everything about their environment [says] they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project.
(Attributed to Mike Jones)
Steven Levy
#79. People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work.
Marilyn Suttle
#80. So, you don't have money to invest in your brand? You do have money for damage control, right?
Here's the thing: anyone can make your brand inferior in your absence.
Laura Busche
#81. When you have your revenue streams set up the right way, you can be confident the dollars are rolling in no matter what
Desmond Ong
#82. The world of romance and business works on this principle - You may be rejected several times, but not everyone will reject you.
Amit Kalantri
#83. Anguish heart attack is tightly packed on to people with actions full of emotions and personal tragedies yet they can overcome it with personal self esteem and nice thinking.
Auliq Ice
#84. People change, and so do their aspirations, and so should brands.
Laura Busche
#85. The real rich people doesn't have bank accounts, they have treasures.
Amit Kalantri
#86. Grab every opportunity. You have maximum control only on 'now'! If this moment goes; if this opportunity is lost; you may not get another ever!
Abhishek Ratna
#87. You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It's easy
Dale Carnegie
#88. Positioning is finding the right parking space inside the consumer's mind and going for it before someone else takes it.
Laura Busche
#89. Become a maniac on a mission: How to succeed in any venture or business .
Phillip Gary Smith
#90. I'm using Mao as my inspiration. "Cast away illusions. Prepare for struggle." I'm back in business, baby. You don't know you're stuck until you get moving.
Hanif Kureishi
#91. When you depersonalize abrasive behavior and see it as a call for help you become a catalyst for the best kind of change.
Marilyn Suttle
#92. Dreams are less influential than actions and actions are less influential than results.
Bobby Darnell
#93. Research conquers doubt. It aligns everyone around the incontestable. Research is the key to clarity - in startups, enterprises, and life itself.
Laura Busche
#94. Forgiveness is another way of saying, I need to mind my own business.
Bryant McGill
#95. It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#96. Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration.
Jaggi Vasudev
#97. Defeated? Learn from it. Move forward. You're stronger now. Reach out for help. No shame, only learning. Seek out those you can learn from.
Waylon H. Lewis
#98. I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#99. One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, 'dead' implies incapable of communicating.
James Randi
