Powerful Motivational Quotes by and for Business Owners

As a business owner there may be occasions when you benefit from receiving a good dose of motivation and encouragement. We here at Write Money Incorporated have scoured the web, searching for on-point motivational lessons shared as quotes just for you. It is our hope that you will find the word of insight, advice, guidance or encouragement while reading one or more of the quotes.

“High expectations are the key to everything.” – Sam Walton

“It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages.” – Henry Ford

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” – Lao Tzu

“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel


“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.” – David Rockefeller

“People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.” – Mary Kay Ash

“You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.” – Les Brown

“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

More Powerful Motivational Quotes

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

“I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!” – Madam C.J. Walker

“I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.” – Colonel Sanders, founder of KFC

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision,
and relentlessly drive it to completion.” – Jack Welch 

“Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.” – Stephen Covey

“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.” – Author Unknown 

“You can’t do today’s job with yesterday’s methods and be in business tomorrow.” – Author Unknown 

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.” – Oprah Winfrey 

“You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman 

Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.” – Thomas J. Watson 

“It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.” – Author Unknown 

Motivational Quotes That Encourage and Strengthen

“To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.” – Anita Roddick 

“Confidence is contagious; so is lack of confidence.” – Vince Lombardi 

“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela 

“Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.” – John H. Johnson


“Don’t be afraid to take time to learn. It’s good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.” – Vera Wang 

“The thing we fear most in organizations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.” – Margaret Wheatley

“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.” – Dee Hock

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

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” – Epictetus

“The customer is a rear-view mirror, not a guide to the future.” – Inventor George Clooney

“Those who say it cannot be done should get out of the way of those who are doing it.” – Author Unknown

“Accounting is the language of business.” – Warren Buffet

“Chains of habits are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” – Warren Buffet

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

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