40 Quotes and Sayings for Success in Business

Quotes, quotations, maxims or sayings can be filled with powerful words that can move people to their journey towards success. They can also be our fuel which will energize us to keep on going in the midst of hopelessness and troubles. Successful people, business icons and famous entrepreneurs share their pieces of quotations from their experiences and realizations. They have been through it, now they want to share the slices of their success through their sayings.

But not all famous maxims are righteous, some of them may come in the form of eloquent words, but behind those words is only a flower – not a power. The following are 40 powerful quotes and sayings I have gathered to inspire and motivate you to reach success in business.

 

1. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” –Henry David Thoreau

 

2. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas A. Edison

 

3. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” –John Maxwell

 

4. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” –Winston Churchill

 

5. “There is no such thing as can’t, only won’t. If you’re qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can’t blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.” –Jan Ashford

 

6. “The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” –John D. Rockefeller

 

7. “There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you’ve mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!” –Jack Canfield

 

8. “The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.” –Andrew Carnegie

 

9. “There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don’t like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don’t spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.” –Michael Dell

 

10. “Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.” –Walt Disney

 

11. “The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.” –Thomas Edison

 

12. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” –Thomas Edison

 

13. “My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.” –Bill Gates

 

14. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” –Conrad Hilton

 

15. “Never make a promise without a plan.” –Zig Ziglar

 

16. “One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” –Arthur Ashe

 

17. “If at first you don’t succeed, do it like your mother told you.”  –Author Unknown

 

18. “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”  –William Feather

 

19. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”  –Woody Allen

 

20. “Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”  –David Frost

 

21. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”  –Albert Einstein

 

22. “Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”  –Author Unknown

 

23. “Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.”  –Walter Cronkite

 

24. “Success begins with your mind (knowledge), then with your heart (choice), then with your hands (action), then with your soul (life) and finalizes with your spirit (sharing).” –Vic of BusinessTips.ph

 

25. “Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it.”  –Author Unknown

 

26. “Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.  –Jonatan Mårtensson

 

27. “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

 

28. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”  –Henry Ford

 

29. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”  –Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought

 

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

 

31. “The NBA is never just a business.  It’s always business.  It’s always personal.  All good businesses are personal.  The best businesses are very personal.” –Mark Cuban

 

32. “Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business.  Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.” –Dale Carnegie

 

33. “Too many people think only of their own profit.  But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people.  No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.” –Kazuo Inamori

 

34. “The results of quality work last longer than the shock of high prices.”  –Author Unknown

 

35. “In business as in life, sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But over time, if you play long enough, everybody gets what he deserves.. good and bad.” –Jeffrey Immelt

 

36. “If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.” –Magic Johnson

 

37. “For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” –Sun Tzu

 

38. “The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t’ is you. And you don’t have to listen.” –Nike

 

39. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” –Steve Jobs

 

40. “The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.” –Denis Waitley

 

So which among the 40 quotes have inspired and moved you most? If you have other sayings about business success, feel free to share it by making a comment below. I’m looking forward to your success!