The world of business can be a whirlwind of challenges and triumphs. On days when motivation dips, a well-placed inspirational quote can be the spark that reignites your passion and propels you forward. Inspirational quotes are a starting point. The real magic lies in taking action and applying these wise words to your own business journey.

Inspirational Business Quotes

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

2. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.”
— Chris Grosser

3. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
— John D. Rockefeller

4. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
— Thomas Jefferson

5. “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”
— Bo Bennett

6. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”
— John D. Rockefeller Jr.

7. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
— Wayne Gretzky

8. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
— Winston Churchill

9. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
— Vidal Sassoon

10. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
— Walt Disney

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

12. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”
— Steve Jobs

13. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

14. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
— Robert Kiyosaki

15. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
— Jim Rohn

16. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”
— Colin R. Davis

17. “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”
— Barack Obama

18. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”
— Roy T. Bennett

19. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
— Ralph Nader

20. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
— Maya Angelou

21. “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

22. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
— Herman Melville

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

24. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”
— Estée Lauder

25. “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”
— Bo Bennett

26. “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.”
— Charles Kingsleigh

27. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
— William James

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

29. “The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.”
— Hasidic Proverb

30. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
— Sam Levenson