100 Motivational Business Quotes You Will Love

One of the hardest things to do as an entrepreneur is to keep yourself motivated. That self motivation is what keeps you taking action and overcoming the many bumps in the road that all of us business owners constantly much overcome.

To help keep you motivated and inspired to always give 110%, here's some motivational business quotes you'll love…

100 Motivational Business Quotes

1. Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ~John Wooden

2.  Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. ~Norman Schwarzkopf

3. Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne

4. The golden rule for every business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place.” ~Orison Swett Marden

5. If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. ~Anonymous

6. If you don’t make things happen then things will happen to you. ~Robert Collier

7. I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them! ~C.J. Walker

8. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Anonymous

9. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. ~Richard Branson

10. 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

11. If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. ~Jim Rohn

12. Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. ~Henry J. Kaiser

13. The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. ~Dennis Waitley

14. Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it's safe or certain.~Anonymous

15. Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time.Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ~Vince Lombardi

16. Business opportunities are like buses: there’s always another one coming. ~Richard Branson

17. All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. ~Walt Disney

18. You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. ~Zig Ziglar

19. Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. ~George Van Valkenburg

20. Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous

21. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ~Henry Ford

22. Business is more exciting than any game. ~Lord Beaverbrook

23. If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous

24. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. ~Napoleon Hill

25. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. ~Albert Einstein

26. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill

27. To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. ~Thomas Watson, Sr.

28. It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by — Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. ~Ren Mulford Jr.

29. Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.~Proverb

30. To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. ~Tony Dorsett

31. A man should never neglect his family for business. ~Walt Disney

32. Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy. ~Anonymous

33. You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance. ~Lee Iacocca

34. The only limits are, as always, those of vision. ~James Broughton

35. Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah

36. Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it. ~William Durant

37. To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth

38. Opportunities don't happen, you create them. ~Chris Grosser

39. I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

40. I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. ~Donald Trump

41. Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein

42. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. ~David Rockefeller

43. Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading: buying and selling. ~Anita Roddick

44. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.~Eleanor Roosevelt

45. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou

46. To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. ~Tryon Edwards

47. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ~Thomas A. Edison

48. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

49. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ~Bill Gates

50. If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it. ~Kim Garst

51. If you are going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill

52. Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. ~Coco Chanel

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

54. It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. ~Confucius

55. 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

56. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

57. I’ve always believed that one woman’s success can only help another woman’s success. ~Gloria Vanderbilt

58. The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. ~Epictetus

59. The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it. ~Henry Ford

60. Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for broke. ~Eliot Wiggington

61. The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything”. I say, “Only one man can do anything.” ~John W. Gardner

62. The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous

63. Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. ~Bernice Johnson Reagon

64. I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. ~Oprah Winfrey

65. Don't raise your voice, improve your argument. ~Anonymous

66. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~Bruce Lee

67. If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. ~Ingvar Kamprad

68. What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. ~Oscar Wilde

69. 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

70. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations. ~Steve Jobs

71. The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.~Anonymous

72. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ~Helen Keller

73. The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. ~Laurence Sterne

74. The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~Bruce Feirstein

75. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success. ~Norman Vincent Peale

76. Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman. ~George Soros

77. When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. ~Lolly Daskal

78. Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. ~Frederick B Wilcox

79. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ~Dwight Eisenhower

80. Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ~John D. Rockefeller

81. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. ~Mark Twain

82. If you did not look after today’s business, then you might as well forget about tomorrow. ~Isaac Mophatlane

83. No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.~Anonymous

84. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson

85. The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. ~ Thomas J. Watson

86. Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

87. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~Beverly Sills

88. Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. ~Babe Ruth

89. If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein

90. We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. ~Earl Nightingale

91. Being able to touch so many people through my businesses, and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing. ~Magic Johnson

92. Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ~Anonymous

93. Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out. ~Robert Collier

94. Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. ~James Thurber

95. Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Anonymous

96. Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. ~Harriet Tubman

97. The NBA is never just a business. It’s always business. It’s always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal. ~Mark Cuban

98. What's the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable. ~Anonymous

99. Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. ~Robert Kiyosaki

100. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, or knowledge, but a lack of will.” ~Vince Lombardi

If you ever feel like your inspiration is fading, go back to great quotes like these to refuel your desire to succeed. Do you know anymore great motivational business quotes?