Inspiring Business Quotes

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Success, Business

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  There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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• I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Long, Entrepreneur, Distraction

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Confidence, Fashion

  "Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets". Book by Marcel Haedrich, 1971.

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• You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Motivational, Success

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

  Zig Ziglar

  Business, Opportunity, Loyal Customers

  "Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.

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• If you're not on the right path, get off it.

  Chris Brogan

  Marketing, Path, Ifs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't take too much advice.

  Ben Silbermann

  Advice, Entrepreneur, Levers

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• Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Motivational, Stay Strong, Business

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• In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

  Lee Iacocca

  Business, Work, People

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.176, Bantam

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• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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• Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.

  Arianna Huffington

  Lines, Possibility, Straight Lines

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• My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Long, Goal

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• Do what is necessary to be resilient. You will get knocked down. What matters is that you get back up.

  Hillary Clinton

  What Matters, Resilient, Knocked Down

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• Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Business, Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Champions keep playing until they get it right.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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• But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.

  Arianna Huffington

  Inspiring, Dream, Successful

  FaceBook post by Arianna Huffington from May 29, 2014

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• Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

  Sam Walton

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Team Building

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.315, Bantam

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• We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.

  Pete Cashmore

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Excerpts from an Oral History Interview with Daniel Morrow: "Advice for Future Entrepreneurs", americanhistory.si.edu. April 20, 1995.

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• If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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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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