Inspirational business quotes and sayings about leaders and success

Here are 60 inspirational business quotes and sayings about leaders, motivation, determination and achievements. Often, the secret to success is purely in the desire to pursue your dreams!

Inspirational business quotes and sayings

We’re all working together; that’s the secret.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

 Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

 Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

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

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

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

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

 If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.

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

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

 Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.

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

Great companies are built on great products.

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

 A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

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

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

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

 Always deliver more than expected.

 People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed.

 You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

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

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

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.

 Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.

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

 Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

 A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

 Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

 Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.

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

 I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.

 The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.

 Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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

 Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

 The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.

 Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

 Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

 See things in the present, even if they are in the future.

 If you can dream it, you can do it.

 Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

 Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

 However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

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

 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.

 Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

 You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.

 The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

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.

Nothing works better than just improving your product.

 A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.

 The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

 If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.

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