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We’ve collected business quotes to give you insights and teachings of very wise people for a bit of inspiration.

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Are you struggling with motivation? Looking for something to get you motivated quickly? We’ve collected business quotes to give you insights and teachings from truly inspirational people to help you to reignite the burning fire within you that helps you to pursue your dreams and ambitions.

These motivational quotes from business leaders, entrepreneurs, and small business owners offer tips and nuggets of wisdom on how to achieve success in business. 

Here are business quotes and success tips for entrepreneurs (for graphics of our quotes, check out our Business Quotes Image Gallery). If you know of any business quotes (including your own!), please feel free to submit it to us.

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Quotes by Author:

  • Brian Tracy
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  • Shaa Wasmund
  • Steve McClatchy

Business Quotes and Success Tips

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A startup doesn’t know who they’re going to be two days from now, they don’t know what’s around the corner, they don’t know what the world is going to do that will be either beneficial or detrimental to their existence, but they have to be able to think on their feet, act fast and make changes without hesitation.

— Geoff Schneider, managing partner and founder Cava Capital, http://fortune.com/2016/03/23/grateful-dead-business-lessons/

Many times they’re talking about risk as a bad thing. The way I think about risk is, I want to take some risks. The most dangerous thing is not taking a risk.

— Michael Dell, From the Huffington Post article “Michael Dell: ‘The Most Dangerous Thing Is Not Taking A Risk’”, Jan. 23, 2015

The key challenge—and the biggest change from business as usual—is changing the focus from how much inventory there is to how fast it’s moving.

— Michael Dell, From the article “The Power of Virtual Integration: An Interview with Dell Computer’s Michael Dell”, by Joan Magretta, published in the March 1998 issue of Harvard Business Review

The best customers for us are the ones that present us with a new problem, because chances are, if one customer has that problem, 100 more have it, or 1,000, or 10,000. So you start thinking about solution development rather than product development. That can mean anything from a new feature or capability to a new way to finance purchases or a new way to link things together.

— Michael Dell, From the article “Michael Dell: How I Became an Entrepreneur Again”, by Tom Foster, published in the July-August 2014 issue of Inc. Magazine

The point is, you can’t keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working. We had to do something different, but the really hard question was, What is it? We made plenty of mistakes along the way to answering that question, but the most important thing we identified was that we needed to know more about our customers and what problems they were really trying to solve in their businesses–even if they didn’t neatly fit into an existing category of ours.

— Michael Dell, From the article “Michael Dell: How I Became an Entrepreneur Again”, by Tom Foster, published in the July-August 2014 issue of Inc. Magazine

Customers don’t care how much time something takes to build. They only care that it serves their needs.

— Eric Reis, From the book “The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

I always feel that failure is nothing more than life’s way of nudging you and letting you know you’re off course.

— Sarah Blakely, Founder and President of Spanx, in the book “The Risk Takers: 16 Women and Men Share their Entrepreneurial Strategies for Success” by Renee and Don Martin (Vanguard Press, published 2010, pp. 156)

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

— Brian Tracy, From the book “Great Little Book on Universal Laws of Success” (Successories Publishing, 1996, p. 73)

The line between failure and success is so fine, that we are often on the line and do not know it.

— Elbert Hubbard

Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it’s very hard to fail completely.

— Larry Page, Google co-founder and CEO, in the book “In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes our Lives,” by Steven Levy, published by Simon and Shuster (2011), p. 12

One of the things that really define an entrepreneur is you get punched in the stomach over and over and over again, and you just have to show up the next day and keep it going. It really is just persistence.

— Jen Bilik, Founder of stationary and gift company Knock Knock in the Inc. Magazine interview “The Way I Work,” October 2011, pp. 114-116

I was not an overnight superstar, but I was willing to work and willing to learn, and that paid off for me. Every change I made was a small step forward, and as long as I took more steps forward than backward I felt as though I was making progress. I learned that if things weren’t working for me, I had to change, and not expect others to change. But the single greatest lesson I learned was that it takes courage, not confidence, to build a business.

— Mary Christensen, Author and popular speaker on direct selling and network marketing, in the book “Be a Party Plan Superstar: Build a $100,000-a-Year Direct Selling Business from Home

The biggest lesson I’ve learned is to trust my instincts. Go with your gut and respect what your instincts tell you. I’ve seen the truth of this play out so many times in a lot of different situations. The truth is that while you can (and should) do all your research and due diligence and analyze all your options, in the end it comes down to taking a leap of faith and trusting yourself.

— Emily Kane, Founder, Milkmakers.com in the interview “Emily Kane: Meeting the Challenges of Breastfeeding with Milkmakers” in WomenHomeBusiness.com

If your gut tells you that a deal is too risky or that your partners seem untrustworthy, pay attention, step back, and reflect. If you go ahead anyway, do so with extra protection, especially in terms of documentation.

— R. Donahue Peebles, Owner of the real estate development company The Peebles Corporation in his book The Peebles Principles, p. 112

If you don’t get a genuine break from work on the regular basis, you will find yourself on the road to burnout or worse, falling out of love with your job or business. Like any good relationship, you need at least some time apart

— Shaa Wasmund, From the book “Do Less, Get More: How to Work Smart and Live Life Your Way”, page. 159

If you ever feel stuck, or trapped in ‘busyness’ running from one spinning plate to another, go outside and breathe. The less stimuli and noise you have around you, the quicker you’ll find the answers

— Shaa Wasmund, From the book “Do Less, Get More: How to Work Smart and Live Life Your Way”, page. 160

Action means putting yourself out there, at the risk of rejection; but if you try your best, then there is no such thing as personal failure.

— Shaa Wasmund, From the book “Do Less, Get More: How to Work Smart and Live Life Your Way”, page. 194

You won’t get anywhere without making a start

— Shaa Wasmund, From the book “Do Less, Get More: How to Work Smart and Live Life Your Way”, page. 194

Sometimes you have to simply think less and do more.

— Shaa Wasmund, From the book “Do Less, Get More: How to Work Smart and Live Life Your Way”, page. 195

Focus on the things that you’re good at and you’re passionate about and strive to become world class. Then keep your eyes open to what’s around you and don’t become blinkered. in this way you’ll be ready to spot opportunities when they arise, and you’re also be more resilient it when life throws you the inevitable curve ball.

— Shaa Wasmund, From the book “Do Less, Get More: How to Work Smart and Live Life Your Way”, page. 204
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