33 Business Quotes to Inspire for Success

Admin July 30, 2020

Many business enthusiasts crave advice from experts and successful people while building or starting a business. Thus, we have curated some amazing business quotes to inspire them to achieve success and help them learn some tricks of the trade.

Here are those 33 quotes on starting and running a business:

1. “Working hard for something we do not care about is called ‘Stress’; working hard for something we love is called ‘Passion’.”
– Simon Sinek, Bestselling Author

2. “As soon as I saw an opportunity, I was like I am all in now because that’s my responsibility and I took it very seriously.”
– Jay Shetty, Co-Founder of ICON MEDIA

3. “Don’t be in the business of playing it safe. Be in the business of creating possibilities for greatness.”
– Robert Iger, Former CEO of The Walt Disney

4. “Be fearless, be driven, be confident, and don’t worry about what happens; make it happen.”
– Lori Greiner, American Television Personality and Entrepreneur

5. “It’s better to have 100 people love you than a million people that just sort of like you.”
– Paul Graham, Founder of Y-Combinator

6. “If you are sprinting everywhere, you will be breathing heavily, and will sweat. But if you are walking, it’s calm. And that’s the way I like doing business. We are on a walk.”
– Jason Fried, Founder of 37signals

7. “I think just being really focused on the customer’s pain point, and what they trying to do has been pretty powerful in our journey.”
– Melanie Perkins, Co-Founder of Canva

8. “Whatever you do, throw yourself into it. Throw your head, heart, and hand into it.”
– Indra Nooyi, Former CEO of Pepsico

9. “People who run companies should bring beliefs from their home to the workplace because an employer will gain rewards from employees only when they love what they do.”
– Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group

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10. “Building a company is not about size; it’s about greatness; about the awesomeness; it’s about doing something useful.”
– Dharmesh Shah, CTO of Hubspot

11. “One thing that I love about entrepreneurship is it is binary; either you goona win or you gonna lose.”
– Gary Vaynerchuck, Chairman of Vaynerx

12. “A lot of things have changed. The market has changed in a decade. Our place in it has changed. But values, and core values; those things should not change.”
– Steve Jobs, Founder of Apple Inc.

13. “If you haven’t failed along the way to be a successful entrepreneur, you really haven’t aimed high enough.”
– Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO of Thrive Global

14. “If you want to judge people; whether you are hiring or promoting them; you have to go to people, who work with them laterally or who work below them.”
– Adam Grant, Professor at Wharton School

15. “What we look for an entrepreneur are people who have not followed the same track; people, who have done quirky things, and who have taken risks in life.”
– Doug Leone, Managing Partner at Sequoia Capital

16. “You must aim for a monopoly. Build a company that’s one of a kind, and differentiating so much from the competition, that it is not even competing.”
– Peter Theil, Co-founder of Paypal

17. “People do their best work when they embrace what the company is setting out to achieve, and when the mission and values of the company resonated with them.”
– Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe Inc.

18. “When I see someone dragging down the rest of the team; I will get rid of that person very fast, no matter how skilled he is.”
– Rand Fishkin, Co-Founder of SparkToro

19. “If you have a big company, there are a lot of people running around that tell you you can’t do stuff.”
– Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Technologies

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20. “The only time you must not fail is the last time you try.”
– Phil Knight, Co-founder of Nike Inc.

21. “If you really wanna have a long-run dream; then you gotta have a short-run plan.”
– Sheryl Sandberg, Cheif Operating Officer of Facebook

22.”We need to find the opportunity not to do everything, but to do important things.”
– Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors

23. “What we have done is to take several different ideas from other people from other geographies, and combine them to create a better solution for the market.”
– Douglas Lamont, CEO of Innocent Drinks

24. “As an entrepreneur, it’s very important to find a problem that you want to solve, and that you are passionate about.”
– Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd.

25. “Do what you are great at. Stay at the core. But look to expand the perimeter.”
– Bill McDermott, CEO of ServiceNow

26. “Many entrepreneurs don’t bother to network. So they sit back at their office, thinking it’s going to come to them. Remember, nothing is going to come to you on a plate; you have to go and get it.”
– Peter Jones, Famous British Entrepreneur

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27. “When seeking investors, be upfront with your values and missions, and filter out those who do not share your excitement.”
– Max Lytvyn, Co-Founder at Grammarly, Inc.

28. “Here is what I recommend to startup founders, ‘Scratch your own itch’. Build the product that you desperately want in your life.”
– Tim Ferris, New York Times Best Selling Author

29. “Marketing is not about knowing how to spreadsheet or do negotiations; it’s about knowing how to communicate what’s special about what you made to the right people.”
– Ryan Holiday, Famous American Marketer

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30. “The resistance that anybody has, whether you are a man or woman to your idea should do nothing but drive you forward.”
– Jessica Alba, Chairperson of The Honest Company

31. “A lot of the most talented and driven people are not deterred by failure. It isn’t about guaranteed success; it’s about guaranteeing adventure.”
– Ben Silbermann, Co-Founder at Pinterest

32. “If you want to build a ‘big success’; first, you have to nail the product, it’s gotta be a killer product, it’s gotta be market fit. If it’s a market fit, then you build a company around it.”
– Marc Andreessen, General Partner at Andreesen Horowitz

33. “Don’t be swung by what everybody else is doing; think about what you believe in and work on that.”
– Vinod Khosla, Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems

Hope these quotes (the secret to success) shared by these experienced entrepreneurs nudges you to make the right decisions. Also, share your favourite quote from the above or those not included in the comment section.

33 Business Quotes to Inspire for Success

Here are those 33 quotes on starting and running a business:

6. “If you are sprinting everywhere, you will be breathing heavily, and will sweat. But if you are walking, it’s calm. And that’s the way I like doing business. We are on a walk.”