50 Motivational Quotes for Business Professionals (2024)

Who doesn’t enjoy the occasional one-liner that triggers a positive shift in our mindset? One of these is guaranteed to cause a slight shift in your minder today.

1. "Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Budweiser Advertising Copywriter
2. "Opportunities don't happen. You create them." – Chris Grosser
3. "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson
4. "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." – Walt Disney
5. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." – Thomas Jefferson
6. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." – Henry David Thoreau
7. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." – John D. Rockefeller
8. "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out." – Robert Collier
9. "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new." – Socrates
10. "If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time." – Steve Jobs
11. "Success is not in what you have, but who you are." – Bo Bennett
12. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt
13. "The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." – Mark Zuckerberg
14. "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." – Colin R. Davis
15. "To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like." – Mike Gafka
16. "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
17. "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." – Vidal Sassoon
18. "The best way to predict the future is to create it." – Peter Drucker
19. "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." – Steve Jobs
20. "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur Ashe
21. "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you." – Zig Ziglar
22. "The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do." – Unknown
23. "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill
24. "The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." – Steve Jobs
25. "You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." – Wayne Gretzky
26. "The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow." – Buckminster Fuller
27. "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." – Maya Angelou
28. "In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." – Albert Einstein
29. "The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it." – Criss Jami
30. "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." – Conrad Hilton
31. "There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them." – Seth Godin
32. "Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical." – Howard Schultz
33. "You don't need to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream." – Michael Dell
34. "Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming." – Richard Branson
35. "Success is not just about making money. It's about making a difference." – Kathy Calvin
36. "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." – Steve Jobs
37. "The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows." – Aristotle Onassis
38. "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." – Bill Gates
39. "Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning." – Robert Kiyosaki
40. "To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business." – J. Paul Getty
41. "The golden rule for every businessman is this: Put yourself in your customer's place." – Orison Swett Marden
42. "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." – William Butler Yeats
43. "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." – Mark Caine
44. "To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart." – Thomas Watson, Sr.
45. "It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen." – Scott Belsky
46. "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." – Colin Powell
47. "Time, energy, and talent can be more important than budget." – Steve Jobs
48. "The best way to do it, is to do it." – Amelia Earhart
49. "Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again." – Richard Branson
50. "Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." – Roy T. Bennett