Business Inspiration Quotes:

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Running, Business Life, Inspirational Winning

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.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Positive, Thinking, Hands, Softball Player, Great Sports

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Top Management, Management Motivation

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Makin Money, Market Risk

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Life, Business, War, Best Investment, Market Risk

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 Buffett

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Young Entrepreneurs, Makin Money

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

- Walt Disney

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Best Success, Social Entrepreneurship

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

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, About Success, Innovation Inspiration

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Life Wisdom, Perserverance

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

- Orison Swett Marden

source: Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

topic: Success, Leadership, Business, Starting Week, Golden Rule

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Change, Management Motivation, Business Life

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

- Zig Ziglar

source: "Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.

topic: Loyalty, Business, Educational, Customer Experience, Inspiring Business

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Graduation, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Team

High expectations are the key to everything.

- Sam Walton

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball, Inspiring Business, Entrepreneurial Spirit

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

- Roger Staubach

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Traffic Jam, Customer Experience

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

- Bill Gates

topic: Business Life, Innovation And Leadership, Inspiring Business, Inspiration To Others, Inspiring Leader

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Nothing Is Impossible, Massive Change

Customer satisfaction is worthless. Customer loyalty is priceless.

- Jeffrey Gitomer

source: Twitter post from Feb 15, 2016

topic: Loyalty, Educational, Satisfaction, Inspirational Service, Loyalty In Business

People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Inspirational, Teamwork, Business, Great Company, Daily Business

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney

source: "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Young Entrepreneurs

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.

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Business, Swings, Degrees, Motivational Business, Positive Business

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Motivational, Mother, Fashion, I Am Strong, Inspirational Feminist

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

- Jeff Bezos

source: "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Customer Experience, Call Center

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

- Jeff Bezos

topic: Success, Jobs, Business, Job Satisfaction, Customer Experience

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Innovation And Business, Innovation Inspiration

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

- Sam Walton

source: "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Business, Work, Customer Experience, Inspirational Customer Service

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

- Nolan Bushnell

source: "Mina Bekheet - Cofounder of Oxford Biotech". Enterprising Oxford interview, www.eship.ox.ac.uk.

topic: Ideas, People, Entrepreneur, Amazing People, Successful Leaders

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas A. Edison

source: "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

topic: Funny, Life, Motivational, Make Me Feel Better, Makin Money

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

- Richard Branson

topic: Inspirational, Business, Opportunity, Social Entrepreneurship, Young Entrepreneurs

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Leadership, Individual Performance, Marriage Advice

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

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Positive, Daily Work, Social Entrepreneurship

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

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Graduation, Young Entrepreneurs, Make You Think Twice

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - everyday I'm learning something new.

- Richard Branson

topic: Motivation, Long, Entrepreneur, Challenging Myself, Learning Something New

The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Opportunity, Complaining, Customer Experience, Inspiring Business, Inspirational Service

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

- Mark Cuban

source: Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.81, Diversion Books

topic: Business, Educational, Competition, Young Entrepreneurs, Customer Experience

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

- Roy Ash

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Successful Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneur Motivational

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational Life, Ambition, People, Social Entrepreneurship, Importunate

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

- Bill Rancic

source: Bill Rancic (2009). “You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice”, p.16, Zondervan

topic: Jobs, Business, Would Be, Business Inspiration, Business Plan

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

- Steve Prefontaine

topic: Business Life, Good Success, Inspirational Track, Monday Morning Motivational, Morning Motivation

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

- Donald Trump

topic: Inspirational, Success, Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Starting Week

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

- Walt Disney

topic: Appreciation, Communication, Mean, Live For Yourself, Explicit

If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: "When King made history at UChicago" by Susie Allen and Michael Drapa, www.uchicago.edu. January 9, 2012.

topic: Perseverance, Determination, Kings, Forward In Life, Just Keep Moving

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.

- Madam C. J. Walker

topic: Inspirational, Opportunity, Waiting, Business Woman, Own Business

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

- Conrad Hilton

topic: Life, Motivational, Moving On, Best Success, Perserverance