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If you are a business owner, an entrepreneur, or a business student, business quotes may be very helpful to you.

Whatever industry you are in, there are some universal business truths: you will experience ups and downs; you will face challenges from the constant change in the business environment; you will need to take some kind of business risk; you will need to lead your organization effectively; and you will need to be able to forge strong business relationships.

The following business quotations may provide some excellent advice that applies to your current business issues. This is similar to many successful business owners and entrepreneurs imparting the knowledge they have gained over the course of their many years in the corporate world.

So, study these quotes and give them serious consideration as you consider how you might use this knowledge to advance and succeed in your business.

Business Quotes About Risk-Taking

1. “You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”  – Adena Friedman

2. “Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it’s starting a new business, whether it’s leaving home, whether it’s getting married, or whether it’s flying in space.” – Chris Hadfield

3. “People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don’t end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not.” – Mark Manson

4. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” – Peter F. Drucker

Business Quotes About Innovation And Change

5. “Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.” – Satya Nadella

6. “The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don’t just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn’t know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, ‘I must have it.’ ”  – Eric Schmidt

7. “The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organization, our organization will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.”  – Margaret J. Wheatley

8. “Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.”  – Howard Schultz

Quotes About The Right Mindset in Business

9. “Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.”  – Richard Branson

10. “Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.”  – Tom Peters

11. “The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.”  – Robin S. Sharma

12. “For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, ‘Think big but start small.’ ” – Carmen Busquets

13. “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” –  Madam C.J. Walker

14. “The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.” – Harvey Mackay

Business Quotes About Going The Extra Mile

15. “Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.” – Kevin Hart

16. “Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.” – Gary Ryan Blair

17. “Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they’ve got into being their own boss.”  – Fabrizio Moreira

18. “The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.” – Henry Ford

19. “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.” – Anthony Volodkin

20. “No business can succeed to any great degree without being properly organized.”  – James Cash Penney

Quotes About Being People-Centric in Business

21. “Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.”  – Howard Schultz

22. “Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all… good design must primarily serve people.”  – Thomas J. Watson

23. “An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.” – Dee Hock

24. “The whole concept of treating people with dignity and respect is a concept that isn’t a business concept, it’s a life concept. It’s who you are at the end of the day.” – Greg Brenneman

25. “When a buyer leaves a negative review, it is a great opportunity to connect and find out why they did and how to make your business better.” – Chris Gronkowski

Quotes About Measurements In Business

26. “What I learned from Rockefeller that’s off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.” – Bob Parsons

27. “In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.”  – Bill Gates

28. “Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.”  – Edward de Bono

Quotes About Business Networking And Relations

29. “Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.”  – Sallie Krawcheck

30. “So much of life is a negotiation – so even if you’re not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.”  – Kevin O’Leary

31. “The habit of doing more than you are paid for can benefit any business that sells a product or service. Learning and understanding the principle of the mastermind philosophy of networking can increase the value of your network and your net worth.”  – Clay Clark

32. “If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secret of getting along – whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.”  – Bernard Meltzer

33. “Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.”  – Ross Perot

34. “Business is usually a team sport. There isn’t one great person sitting there directing things. You can’t run an effective business like that.”  – Stephen A. Schwarzman

35. “The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.”  – Harvey Mackay

Quotes About Knowing the Specifics of Your Business

36. “To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.”  – J. Paul Getty

37. “No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.”  – P. T. Barnum

38. “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

39. “People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird’s eye view and they don’t create a systematic plan.”  – Dave Ramsey

Quotes About Service In Business

40. “All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.” – Richard Branson

41. “A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”  – Henry Ford

42. “The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.” – Brian Tracy

43. “Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s profitable.” – James Rouse

Business Quotes About Leadership

44. “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” – Jack Welch

45. “Successful business leaders who have helped build institutions of lasting value – all are committed to talent and a culture of excellence. This is usually accomplished by the identification, retention, and development of great people.”  – Bobby Kotick

46. “The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.” – Brian Tracy

47. “Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”  – Peter Drucker

48. “The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.” – Zig Ziglar

49. “A well-maintained physique is a great business card. Ideas and intelligence are what matters, but if you have a well-maintained physique, it’s better.”  – Giorgio Armani

50. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”  – Arnold H. Glasow

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