Business is one of the oldest traits of the human race. In this article, you will learn 50 quotes from businessmen who have achieved success in their fields. These quotes should get you motivated for the second half of the year, the important half.
So, whether you would like to ramp up your sales this summer or devise an intricate plan for the holidays, these quotes from businessmen are definately going to prepare your mentality for your company's growth.
1. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates
2. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.” — Jeff Bezos
3. “Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.” — Mark Cuban
4. “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.” — Jason Fried
5. “Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.” — Lakshmi Mittal
6. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” — Guy Kawasaki
7. “Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.” — Tony Hsieh
8. “Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.” — Noah Everett
9. “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.” — Steve Case
10. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” — Fred Wilson
11. “Always deliver more than expected.” — Larry Page
12. “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” — Reid Hoffman
13. “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
14. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” — Tony Hsieh
15. “Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.” — Jeffrey Zeldman
16. “An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.” — David Karp
17. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” — Biz Stone
18. “Data beats emotions.” — Sean Rad
19. “When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’” — Tom Preston-Werner
20. “If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”— Pierre Omidyar
21. “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
22. “The stars will never align, and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.” — Tim Ferriss
23. “If you define yourself by how you differ from the competition, you’re probably in trouble.” — Omar Hamoui
24. “The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.” — Ingvar Kamprad
25. “Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.” — Mark Pincus
26. “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” — Rob Kalin
27. “Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.” — Kyle Bragger
28. “Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.” — Jason Calacanis
29. “I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.” — Jake Nickell
30. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”– Michael Jordan
31. “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.” — Anthony Volodkin
32. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” — Jack Dorsey
33. “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.” — Josh James
34. “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
35. “If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.” — Ryan Freitas
36. “Anything that is measured and watched, improves.” — Bob Parsons
37. “It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.” — Jason Cohen
38. “See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” — Larry Ellison
39. “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
40. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” — Conrad Hilton,
41. “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
42. “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
43. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” — Scott Belsky
44. “Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.” — Chris Dixon
45. “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” — Wayne Huizenga
46. “Stay self-funded as long as possible.” — Garrett Camp
47. “No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the week.” — Spencer Fry
48. “Ideas are commodity, execution of them is not.” — Michael Dell
49. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” — Jim Rohn
50. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney
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