Best Business Quotes

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  Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Education

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 04, 2016

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  You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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  Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

  Babe Ruth

  Motivational, Inspiring, Running

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• Don't let the bastards get you down.

  Barbara Walters

  Entrepreneur, Successful Entrepreneurs, Funding

  Barbara Walters (2008). “Audition”, p.297, Vintage

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• Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

  Caterina Fake

  Business, Entrepreneur, Design

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

  Jack Dorsey

  Business, Hard Work, Starting Up

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• Sing your song; don't let the bastards get you down.

  Garrison Keillor

  Song, Entrepreneur, Funding

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• If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

  Reid Hoffman

  Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Too Late

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• Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

  Charles Dickens

  Business, Soul, Prosperity

  Charles Dickens (2017). “A TALE OF TWO CITIES & BARNABY RUDGE (Historical Novels Set In the Time of Great Rebellions): The Riots of Eighty & French Revolution (Illustrated Classics with “The Life of Charles Dickens” & Criticism)”, p.563, e-artnow

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• Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it.

  Ryan Allis

  Motivational, Inspiring, Hard Work

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• The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

  Ralph Nader

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  85 Copy quote

• Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Success, Money, Business

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• Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Success, Encouragement, Motivation

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• The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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

  Tony Hsieh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Business, War

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• Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Time, Money

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• To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

  Pierre Corneille

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• We are currently not planning on conquering the world.

  Sergey Brin

  Business, Crazy, Entrepreneur

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• I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

  Donald Trump

  Motivation, Business, Entrepreneur

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.47, Ballantine Books

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• It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

  James Cash Penney

  Inspirational, New Beginnings, Entrepreneur

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  Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

  Mark Cuban

  Success, Encouragement, Business

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.81, Diversion Books

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• Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Business, Entrepreneur, Funding

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• A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Business, Hard Work, Starting Up

  "Mina Bekheet - Cofounder of Oxford Biotech". Enterprising Oxford interview, www.eship.ox.ac.uk.

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