Whether you are a third grader operating a lemonade stand or the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, you can always use the wisdom of others to improve yourself. Here's a list of 30 thought-provoking business quotes to use at your next presentation or to simply reflect upon.
1. The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
– Nolan Bushnell
2. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
– Norman Schwarzkopf
3. I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!
– C.J. Walker
4. A man should never neglect his family for business.
– Walt Disney
5. The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
– James Broughton
6. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
– Bill Gates
7. If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example.
– Ingvar Kamprad
8. Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
– Babe Ruth
9. No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others.. or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
– Calvin Coolidge
10. Hire character. Train skill.
– Peter Schutz
11. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches.
– Napoleon Hill
12. I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
– Robert Bosch
13. In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
– Harold Geneen
14. I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
– Alan Greenspan
15. You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.
– Jim Stovall
16. Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!
– Henry Ford
17. Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
– Bill Gates
18. Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
– Zig Ziglar
19. For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.
-Zig Ziglar
20. Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
-Jack Welch
21. To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art.
-Chinese Proverb
22. You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention.
-Charlie Munger
23. A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
24. Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
25. 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.
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