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33 Best motivational and inspirational business quotes

In this post, I'm going to digress a bit from the usual topics I cover in this blog. 
Every businessman, be it an entrepreneur or a veteran, at some point or another, needs a little bit of motivation and inspiration. Below is my collection of inspirational quotes by some of the well-known achievers this world has seen: 

1.       “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson

2.       “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It’s best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving other innovations.” – Steve jobs

3.       “An organizations ability to learn, to translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage” – Jack welch

4.       “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers

5.       “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight Eisenhower

6.       “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart” – Sr. Thomas Watson

7.       “Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try.” – Unknown

8.       “The first one gets the oyster and the second one gets the shell” – Andrew Carnegie

9.       “Whether you think you can or whether you think you cannot, you’re right!” – Henry Ford

10.   “Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.” – Henry Ford

11.   “People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.” – Seth Godin

12.   “Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put the forth the best within you.” – Henry J. Kaiser

13.   “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel

14.   “I feel that luck is opportunity meeting preparation.” – Oprah Winfrey

15.   “Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.” – Seth Godin

16.   “The true entrepreneur is a doer. Not a dreamer.” – Unknown

17.   “The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.”—Henry Ford

18.   “Winning is not a sometime thing, it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” – Vince Lombardi

19.   “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

20.   “You’re most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning” – Bill Gates

21.   “Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”—Henry ford.

22.   “Business has only two functions.” – Peter Drucker

23.   “Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.” – Edwin H. Stuart

24.   “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

25.   “The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.” – Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA Founder

26.   “Best start-ups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.” – Micheal Arrington, TechCrunch founder

27.   “The only thing worse than starting something and failing, is not starting something.” – Seth Godin

28.   “I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars. I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over.” – Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathway Chairman and CEO

29.   “It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

30.   “The golden rule for every business is this: Put yourself in your customer’s shoes” – Orison Swett Marden

31.   “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get” – Warren Buffet

32.   “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” – Sam Walton

33.   “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” – Peter Drucker
Bonus -- A personal favourite of mine:

“Do or Do not. There’s no Try.” – Yoda, Fictional character from Star Wars
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