A business is an organization or entity that sells goods or services for a profit. The important part of this definition is that a business is something that operates to make a profit in every field. Not all businesses are successful enough to make a profit, but their main purpose is to generate profits.
To all the businessmen out there here are 70 Business Quotes for success.
- “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
- “If I love you, what business is it of yours?” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Amid the chaos, there is also opportunity” ― Sun-Tzu, A Arte da Guerra
- “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.” ― Steve Jobs
- “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” ― Sheryl Sandberg
- “Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.” ― Bernard Branson
- “Done is better than perfect.” ― Sheryl Sandberg
- “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.” ― Dave Barry
- “Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.” ― Criss Jami
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it” ― Peter Drucker
- “When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.” ― sun Tzu
- “Knowledge is power is time is money.” ― Robert Their
- “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” ― Warren Buffett
- “Advertising is legalized lying.” ― G. Wells
- “who wishes to fight must first count the cost” ― Sun Tzu
- “Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.” ― Jaachynma N.E
- “My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.” ― Oscar Wilde
- “The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself.” ― Idowu Koyenikan
- “I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking and make fewer impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.” ― Warren Buffett
- “The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team.” ― Phil Jackson
- “You have to work on the business first before it works for you.” ― Idowu Koyenikan
- “I would prefer a sword to fight a duel, but a pen to plan a war.” ― Robert Their
- “We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.” ― Sheryl Sandberg
- “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive determination, and more drive.” ― Sophie Kinsella
- “Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.” ― Louisa May Alcott
- “Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, to find out his vulnerable spots.” ― Sun Tzu
- “Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you compete with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.” ― Sidney Sheldon
- “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” ― Peter F. Drucker
- “I’m a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. I just made that up.” ― Dora J. Arod
- “The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy so that he cannot fathom our real intent.” ― Sun Tzu
- “Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.” ― Jaachynma N.E.
- “Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its terms and its currency. And in love, currency is a virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their character.” ― Ayn Rand
- “Once poverty is gone, we’ll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They’ll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society – how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation, and despair.” ― Muhammad Yunus
- “Attack is the secret of defense, defense is the planning of an attack.” ― Sun Tzu
- “If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” ― John Gottman
- “Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.” ― Sheryl Sandberg
- “There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.” ― Sun Tzu
- “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” ― Peter Drucker
- “Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.” ― Vince Lombardi
- “Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.” ― Jane Austen
- “Truth builds trust.” ― Marilyn Suttle
- “Great results, can be achieved with small forces.” ― Sun Tzu
- “If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it.” ― Criss Jami
- “If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.” ― Simon Sinek
- “A photograph shouldn’t be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” ― Amit Kalantri
- “It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.” ― Isaac Asimov
- “To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.” ― Richie Norton
- “The absence of a message sometimes is a presence of one.” ― Hasse Jenner
- “If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will fully ignore the future that is likely.” ― Seth Godin
- “I have a business head and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.” ― Jenny Colgan
- “Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.” ― Sun Tzu
- “The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.” ― Jim Collins
- “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” ― Albert Einstein
- “When [what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at, and what drives your economic engine] come together, not only does your work move toward greatness but so does your life. For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then, you might gain that rare tranquility that comes from knowing that you’ve had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that contributes. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time here on this earth has been well spent and that it mattered.” ― Jim Collins
- “Compassion is a lifetime business. You can’t say something like, “I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays, and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel”. That is hypocrisy.” ― Israelmore Ayivor
- “Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.” ― Peter Drucker
- “If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.” ― Sun Tzu
- “If you’re creative, if you can think independently if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn’t the case. So, dust off your horn and start tooting.” ― Hugh MacLeod
- “Cream always rises to the top. So, do good leaders”.” ― John Paul Warren
- “Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.” ― Simon Zingerman
- “There is enough dough in the world to make bread for us all to eat together.” ― Habeeb Akande
- “That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire.” ― Simon Zingerman
- “I used to use business to make money. But I’ve learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.” ― Po Bronson
- “As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.” ― John Dewey
- “Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we’re gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die. ” ― Stanley Bing
- “An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.” ― Robert A. Rice Jr.
- “Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness a large number of crowd you will gather.” ― Santosh Kalwar
- “We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.” ― Criss Jami
- “If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. ” ― Zig Ziglar
- “The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.” ― Frank Zappa
