Inspirational Business Quotes And Start-ups.

Inspirational business quotes to inspire you to greatness. Starting a new venture is never an easy task, why not get great motivation from people who have been where you are. We all need a little motivation now and then and what better words to hear than successful people who have achieved in their different fields.

Inspirational Business Quotes

1. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Steve Jobs
2. Done is better than perfect. Sheryl Sandberg
3. Always deliver more than expected. Larry Page
4. Diligence is the mother of good luck. Benjamin Franklin
5. Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger. Tony Hsieh
6. Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. Guy Kawasaki
7. What would you do if you weren’t afraid? Sheryl Sandberg
8. Micromanage the process, not the people. Joe Apfelbaum
9. If you are going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill
10. Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. Ted Turner
11. Any time is a good time to start a company. Ron Conway
12. High expectations are the key to everything. Sam Walton
13. Eliminate all the unimportant opportunities. Mike Markkula
14. It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. Babe Ruth
15. Don’t try to be original, just try to be good. Paul Rand
16. Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not. Michael Dell
17. Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration. Thomas A. Edison
18. I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. Bill Gates
19. 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. Pareto principle
20. 80% of your sales come from 20% of your clients. Pareto principle.

Inspiring Business Card Quotes.

21. I could either watch it happen or be a part of it. Elon Musk
22. Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Mark Cuban
23. A year from now you may wish you had started today. Karen Lamb
24. The world is not changed by people who sort of care. Sally Hogshead
25. Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. Henry Ford
26. Nothing works better than just improving your product. Joel Spolsky
27. No business plan survives first contact with customers. Steve Blank
28. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao Tzo
29. Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress. Seth Godin
30. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
31. The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing. Walt Disney
32. Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once. Drew Houston
33. Forget about your competitors, just focus on your customers. Jack Ma
34. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. Thomas A. Edison
35. If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it. John D. Rockefeller.

Inspirational Business Quotes For Business Owners.

36. If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough. Mario Andretti
37. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. Wayne Gretzy
38. Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises. Mark Pincus
39. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates
40. You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down. Reid Hoffman
41. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Jim Rohn
42. Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead. Nelson Mandela
43. Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you. Tony Hsieh
44. Our industry does not respect tradition. It only respects innovation. Satya Nadella
45. Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect. Jack Dorsey
46. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Henry David Thoreau
47. It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas. Edwin H. Land
48. Customers don’t care about your solution. They care about their problems. Dave McClure
49. Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy. Jason Fried.

Most Inspirational Business Quotes

50. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them. Steve Jobs
51. Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford
52. You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done. Russell Simmons
53. Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
54. We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison
55. You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for. Ted Turner
56. You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over. Richard Branson
57. The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%. Rob Kalin
58. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. Michael Jordan
59. When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. Eric Thomas
60. Make something people want includes making a company that people want to work for. Sahil Lavingia.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT LIFE.

Famous Inspirational Business Quotes And Sayings.

61. The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something. Seth Godin
62. The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good. Joe Kraus
63. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. Henry Ford
64. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. Elon Musk
65. Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week, to avoid working 40 hours a week. Lori Greiner
66. Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after you’ve done that, dream bigger. Howard Schultz
67. When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts. Larry Ellison
68. You can be comfortable in your career or extraordinary. Which one are you going to be? Sally Hogshead
69. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. Ann Landers
70. I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest. Venus Williams.

Powerful Business Quotes.

71. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain
72. Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough. Mark Zuckerberg
73. If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late. Reid Hoffman
74. Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. Jack London
75. Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. Henry Ford
76. We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform. Pete Cashmore
77. When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue. Josh James
78. 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
79. Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. Biz Stone.

Motivational Business Startup Quotes.

80. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill
81. Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities, and don’t let the bastards get you down. Michael Bloomberg
82. I think the single most reassuring thing about doing a startup is knowing in advance how difficult it is going to be. Jared Tame
83. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work. Robert Orben
84. If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it’s impact, you can probably create history. Sharad Vivek Sagar
85. Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do. Mark Cuban
86. 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
87. Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession. Mark Cuban.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOM.

Successful Business Quotes.

88. Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded. Paul Graham
89. So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard. Caterina Fake
90. Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory. Mahatma Gandhi
91. I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. Steve Jobs
92. Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me. Steve Jobs.

Quotes About Business Growth.

93. 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
94. What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: Know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed. Dave Thomas
95. 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
96. The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Paul Graham.

Motivational Quotes About Starting A Business.

97. Starting your own business is like riding a roller coaster. There are highs and lows and every turn you take is another twist. The lows are really low, but the highs can be really high. You have to be strong, keep your stomach tight, and ride along with the roller coaster that you started. Lindsay Manseau
98. Having a great startup pitch has more to do with setting up and running a great company than optimizing some type of sales process to investors. great investors can see through most tactics that you will use in the pitch process, so the best fundraising strategy is to build a great company. Ken Howery
99. The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn’t fail. It still didn’t really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal. Max Levchin.

Conclusion.

Hope these inspirational business quotes help motivate you towards your dreams. 

Sincerely Yours.