100+ Inspiring Quotes for Business Success and Motivation

"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

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

- Walt Disney

"The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something."

- Seth Godin

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

- Steve Jobs

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Thomas Edison

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"

- Henry Ford

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."

- Mary Kay Ash

"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."

- Steve Jobs

"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

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!"

- Henry Ford

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

- Mark Zuckerberg

"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

- Barack Obama

"Opportunities don't happen. You create them."

- Chris Grosser

"Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself."

- Oprah Winfrey

"To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like."

- Mike Gafka

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success."

- Biz Stone

"The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world."

- Marc Benioff

"Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not."

- Michael Dell

"It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen."

- Scott Belsky

"There are lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: It’s to change the world."

- Phil Libin

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."

- Mark Twain

"Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it."

- Brian Tracy

"Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that."

- Herb Kelleher

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."

- Douglas MacArthur

"If you don’t create a great, rewarding place for people to work, they won’t do great work."

- Ari Weinzweig

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

- Estée Lauder

"The only way around is through."

- Robert Frost

"Don't wait for opportunities, create them."

- Charles R. Schwab

"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first."

- Angela Ahrendts

"The real competitive advantage in any business is one word only, which is ‘people.’"

- Komil Toume

"Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow."

- Anthony Robbins

"You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong."

- Warren Buffett

"There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them."

- Seth Godin

"I don’t know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it."

- Susan Butcher

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it’s starting a new business, whether it’s leaving home, whether it’s getting married, or whether it’s flying into space."

- Chris Hadfield

"Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

"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

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

"The best way to do it, is to do it."

- Amelia Earhart

"Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again."

- Richard Branson

"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."

- Roy T. Bennett

"In order to succeed. We must first believe that we can."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

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

- Thomas J. Watson

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."

- Winston S. Churchill

"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

"Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there."

- Haile Gebrselassie

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

- Steve Jobs

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

- Conrad Hilton

"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."

- Richard Branson

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

- Steve Jobs

"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."

- Aristotle

"The golden rule for every businessman is this: Put yourself in your customer's place."

- Orison Swett Marden

"It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen."

- Scott Belsky

"Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you."

- George Whitefield

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

- Muhammad Ali

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard."

- Guy Kawasaki

"If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late."

- Reid Hoffman

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently."

- Warren Buffet

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

"Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

- Colin Powell

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

- Calvin Coolidge

"If you can’t fly, then run; if you can’t run, then walk; if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there."

- Joyce Chapman

"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."

- Robert Hall

"It’s not about money or connection — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone."

- Mark Cuban

"When I meet successful people, I ask about 100 questions to find out who they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people."

- Kiana To

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow."

- Buckminster Fuller

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them."

- Seth Godin

"Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical."

- Howard Schultz

"To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business."

- J. Paul Getty

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

- Thomas Watson

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right"

- Henry Ford

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."

- Peter F Drucker

"One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals."

- Michael Korda

"Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create."

- David Karp

"Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."

- Mary Kay Ash

"The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it."

- Debbi Fields

"If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself – your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you and 15% managing your peers."

- Dee Hock

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

- Henry Ford

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

- African Proverb

"No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work."

- Jonathan Sack

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."

- Aristotle

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

- Steve Jobs

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be."

- Rosalynn Carter

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

- Napoleon Hill

"Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard."

- George Lucas

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work."

- Stephen King

"Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything."

- Patrick Suskind

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work—and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."

- Lucille Ball

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do."

- Henry Ford

"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."

- Jim Rohn

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."

- Ken Blanchard

"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

"Successful entrepreneurs know that the best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs."

- Dhirubhai Ambani

"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

- William Butler Yeats

"Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity and meaning in their job."

- Scott and Kelly Blanchard

"Time, energy, and talent can be more important than budget."

- Steve Jobs

"Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management."

- Eraldo Banovac

"Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret."

- Mary Kay Ash

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

- J. Paul Getty

"You don't need 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

"People want to know they matter, and they want to be treated as people. That’s the new talent contract."

- Pamela Stroko

"Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways."

- Bob Nelson

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Success depends on employees. For me, knowing and connecting with my employees is very important."

- Divine Ndhlukula

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."

- Tony Robbins

"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."

- Michael Larsen

"It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit."

- Harry S. Truman

"Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you."

- Stephen Covey

"Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else."

- Sara Blakely

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?"

- Eliza Dushku

"A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way."

- Proverb

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

- Jimmy Johnson

"Management is nothing more than motivating other people."

- Le Iacocca

"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you."

- Zig Ziglar

"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company"

- Booker T. Washington

"Life is about making an impact, not making an income."

- Kevin Kruse

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"How wonderful it is that nobody needs wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

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

- Tony Robbins

"Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that."

- Anthony Volodkin

"Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure."

- Stanley McChrystal

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans worthy of respect."

- Meghan M. Biro

"Culture is about performance, and making people feel good about how they contribute to the whole."

- Tracy Streckenbach

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

"Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all you heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

- Dale Carnegie

"Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

- Saint Francis

"You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over."

- Richard Branson

"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners."

- Fred Allen

"Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you."

- Margaret Thatcher

"It is not a question of how well each process works; the question is how well they all work together."

- Lloyd Dobens

"Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions."

- Paulo Coelho

"Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action."

- Simon Sinek

"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."

- Bo Bennett

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

- Bill Gates

"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."

- Hasidic Proverb

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

- Julie Andrews

"Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming."

- Richard Branson

"You can't hire someone else to do your push-ups for you."

- Jim Rohn

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers."

- Stephen R. Covey

"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."

- Margaret Carty

"Employees aren't just workers, they're the backbone of business and that makes them more important than the boss any day of the week. Good Employees = Good Business."

- Kilroy J. Oldster

"Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable."

- Coco Chanel

"I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity."

- Oprah Winfrey

"People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition."

- Bob Nelson

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it."

- William Durant

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new."

- Socrates

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

- Colin R. Davis

"Play by the rules, but be ferocious."

- Phil Knight

"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Self-respect tends to inspire respect from others."

- Nathaniel Branden

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Max DePree

"All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves."

- Jag Randhawa

"Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability."

- Harvey Mackay

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"It doesn’t take strength to win. It takes the true heart of the team to win."

- Emily Voyles

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."

- Jack Welch

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit."

- Arnold Glasow

"Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation."

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

"Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done."

- Robin S. Sharma

"When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute."

- Simon Sinek

"Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company."

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

- G. K. Chesterton

"Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me."

- Arianna Huffington

"When I was younger, there was something in me. I had passion. I may not have known what I was going to do with that passion, but there was something and I still feel it. It’s this little engine that roars inside of me, and I just want to keep going and going."

- Sheila Johnson

"The first one gets the oyster, the second gets the shell."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Keep going, no matter what."

- Reginald F. Lewis

"I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance, too?"

- Jill Konrath

"I don’t like to lose — at anything — yet, I’ve grown most not from victories, but setbacks."

- Serena Williams

"If you approach 100 people for seed capital, 99 of them may say no. You just need that one."

- Dr. William F. Pickard

"Do what you love, and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career."

- Meg Whitman

"Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations."

- Dr. Mae Jemison

"Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games."

- Babe Ruth

"The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be."

- Reid Hoffman

"The best investment is in the tools of one’s own trade."

- Benjamin Franklin

"In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination."

- Steve Case

"You don't have problems - all you have is opportunity."

- John Chow

"If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them."

- Ryan Freitas

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

- Ayn Rand

"Leap, and the net will appear."

- John Burroughs

"I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement"

- Donald Trump

"Stay self-funded as long as possible."

- Garrett Camp

"Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day."

- Joel Spolsky

"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

"Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something."

- Michael Lopp

"When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue."

- Josh James

"Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities, and don’t let the bastards get you down."

- Michael Bloomberg

"Turn a perceived risk into an asset."

- Aaron Patzer

"Empower yourself and realize the importance of contributing to the world by living your talent. Work on what you love. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you."

- Catharina Bruns

"See things in the present, even if they are in the future."

- Larry Ellison

"It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you."

- Jason Cohen

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."

- Pierre Corneille

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

- Henry Ford

"We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform."

- Pete Cashmore

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

- Coco Chanel

"How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top."

- Yvon Chouinard

"I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about."

- Jake Nickell

"Anything that is measured and watched, improves."

- Bob Parsons

"The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%."

- Rob Kalin

"Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them."

- Tony Hsieh

"Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand"

- Hayley Williams

"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 try to be original, just try to be good."

- Paul Rand

"When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’ "

- Tom Preston-Werner

"Just Do It"

- Nike

"It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower."

- Paul Graham

"Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch."

- Michael Arrington

"You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good."

- Peter Shankman

"If you’re going to put your product in beta – put your business model in beta with it."

- Joe Kraus

"Business is more exciting than any game."

- Lord Beaverbrook

"Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market."

- Jason Calacanis

"I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars – I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over."

- Warren Buffett

"I doubt I’ll ever go back to corporate work. Once you see the light, there is no turning back."

- Magnus Jepson

"I don’t think an economic slump will hurt good ideas."

- Rob Kalin

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out."

"Success is not just about making money. It's about making a difference."

"Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning."

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

"I've always had a great work ethic, even when I was washing dishes."

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"The road to success and greatness is always paved with consistent hard work. Outwork your competitors and be relentless."

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"High expectations are the key to everything."

"In a world of starters, I'm a finisher."

- Unknown

"Never, never ever give up."

"Successful entrepreneurs don’t wait for opportunities; they create them."

"Successful entrepreneurs are lifelong learners who are constantly looking for ways to improve and grow."

"A successful business is built on passion and hard work."

"Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy."

"The most successful people are those who excel in the face of adversity."