Thoughts of Famous Business Quotes in English with Images

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

- Bill Gates

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

- Tony Robbins

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards - and living up to them - is a better way to profit.  Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

- Seth Godin

Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give - with a few exceptions - generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

- Ben Silbermann

The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

- Barack Obama

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

- David M. Ogilvy

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work.  But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

- David Rockefeller

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success.

- Thomas J. Watson

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.

- Ray Goforth

Here's my theory about meetings and life; the three things you fake are erections, competence and creativity.  That's why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be.  And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes.  One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say, 'Mmmmmm. Interesting.' If pressed, they'll add, 'I'll have to get back to you on that.' Then they don't say anything else.

- Douglas Coupland

Business Sayings List in English

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

- Jurgen Schrempp

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

- Thorstein Veblen Quotation

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

- A Quotation From Warren Buffett

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.

- Tony Hsieh

Business in a combination of War and sport.

- Business Quotes in English by Andre Maurois

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

- Chris Grosser

If you can dream it, you can do it.

- Walt Disney

I failed my way to success.

- Thomas Edison

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

- Walt Disney

Always deliver more than expected.

- Larry Page

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

- Japanese Proverb

I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.

- Estee Lauder

Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.

- Robert Kiyosaki

Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston S. Churchill

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

- Vidal Sassoon

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

- Steve Jobs

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

- Herman Melville

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

- Colin R. Davis

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

- Henry David Thoreau

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

- Bruce Lee

If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

- Jim Rohn

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

- John D. Rockefeller

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

- Michael John Bobak

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

- Guy Kawasaki

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

- Thomas Jefferson

The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.

- Aristotle

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

- Albert Einstein

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

- Winston Churchill

The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.

- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.

- Jeff Bezos

Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.

- Angelo Sotira,

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

- Thomas Edison

Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.

- Mark Cuban

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

- Bill Gates

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

- Babe Ruth

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

- Jack Dorsey

Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.

- Lisa Stone

It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.

- Scott Belsky

Nothing works better than just improving your product.

- Joel Spolsky

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.

- Tony Hsieh

Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.

- Chris Dixon

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

- Michael Arrington

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

- Steve Jobs

Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.

- Joel Spolsky

There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.

- Jason Fried

Anything that is measured and watched, improves.

- Bob Parsons

Business is more exciting than any game.

- Lord Beaverbrook

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

- Benjamin Franklin

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

- Bill Cosby

If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.

- Zig Ziglar

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

- Oprah Winfrey

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.

- Mark Pincus

A man should never neglect his family for business.

- Walt Disney

'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.

- George Ade Quotes

Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

- Jeffrey Zeldman

Business opportunities are like buses: there’s always another one coming.

- Richard Branson

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

- Bill Gates

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

- Bill Gates

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

- Aristotle

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

- Henry Kravis

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

- Henry Ford

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

- Jim Rohn

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.

- Anthony Volodkin

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.

- Socrates *

The golden rule for every business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place.

- Orison Swett Marden

An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.

- David Karp

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.

- Thomas Watson, Sr.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.

- Reid Hoffman

If you define yourself by how you differ from the competition, you’re probably in trouble.

- Omar Hamoui

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

- Colin Powell

Drive the business or it will drive thee.

- Benjamin Franklin

The chief business of the American people is business.

- Calvin Coolidge

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

- Aldus Manutius

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

- Oscar Wilde Download or Share

A dinner lubricates business.

- Lord William Stowell Download or Share

Good design can't fix broken business models.

- Jeffrey Veen Download or Share

There's no business like show business, but there are several business like accounting.

- David Letterman Download or Share

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as Gambling.

- Business Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

- Sydney Biddle Barrows Quotes

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

- Mitchell Caplan Download or Share

Business Quotation List in English

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at him.

- David Brinkley

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

- Tara Hunt

Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

- James Champy

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman.  Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

- John Cleese Thoughts

Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

- Golda Meir

When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.

- Josh James

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

- Reid Hoffman

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

- John Quincy Adams

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas Edison

Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.

- Lakshmi Mittal

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - It is: Try to please everybody.

- Herbert Bayard Swope

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

- Richard Branson

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better.

- Jim Rohn

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

- Albert Schweitzer

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

- Joseph E. Levine

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

- Robert Frost

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.

- Anthony Robbins

If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.

- Ryan Freitas

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

- Henry Ford

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember--the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.

- Zig Ziglar

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

- G. K. Chesterton

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

- Conrad Hilton

Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don’t think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

- David Ogilvy

If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

- Mark Zuckerberg Thoughts

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

- Norman Schwarzkopf Thought

If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

- Steve Jobs

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

- Harold Geneen

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

- Ingvar Kamprad

If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

- Steve Jobs

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

- Tim O’Reilly

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

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

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

- David Rockefeller

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

- Charles F. Kettering

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

- Steve Jobs