66 Best Business Advice Quotes for a successful business

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Find here the list of best inspirational business advice quotes that will help you to build a successful business. Apart from these business advice quotes, you can also read our other motivational quotes on business leadership, business culture quotes, don’t give up, moving on, and positive attitude quotes.

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1. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” ― Henry Ford

2. “A familiarity with principles of strategic planning, integrated marketing and communications are essential if you desire to have a successful career path in branding or social media marketing.” ― Germany Kent

3. “As a business owner, you should be looking at data as a key resource to help you make more informed decisions that ultimately allow you to grow revenues and maximize profits.” ― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

4. “Authenticity is important in business, and in every part of life. Be true to yourself, and make sure the business is being true to itself.” ― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

5. “Brands that will survive and thrive from now on are those with C-level executives that understand the incredible opportunity new media offers them and commit to excellence in managing their social media presence.” ― Brian E Boyd

6. “Business after all is a form of warfare; you bring all your available weapons to bear. If you don’t you’re a fool.” ― Cornell Woolrich

7. “Business doesn’t flourish on chance pleasures.” ― Fábio Moon

8. “Business Education starts in Elementary School and continues through to High School and then to University. The sooner we teach students the essentials of business, the more capable they’ll be at thriving in business when they’re older.” ― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

9. “Business is win-win, everything else shades into crime.” ― Stefan Emunds

10. “Conquer your customer as you would a woman” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana

11. “Create reciprocity in your business by making the first gesture, like make a comment on the blog of a great speaker.” ― Lisa Mininni

12. “Creativity is something which can make your ads highly memorable which will make it easier for your potential customers to remember you.” ― Pooja Agnihotri

13. “Customers want to make informed decisions based on useful information, valuable engagements and brand affinity.” ― Dane Brookes

14. “Define where your significance comes from and base it upon your own values and principles.” ― Mark Villareal

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15. “Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.” ― Gary Ryan Blair

16. “Don’t be that employee that complains all the time! Instead, be that employee that sees opportunities within the business and weeks to collaborate with colleagues and management to make the business better.” ― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

17. “Don’t stretch a season out to a lifetime. Know when to let go.” ― Elizabeth Bourgeret

18. “Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” ― Howard Aiken

19. “During the business start-up process, you will discover that this experience is a cruel teacher. It often gives the test before the lesson.” ― Linsey Mills

20. “Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves.” ― Herbert Hoover

21. “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” ― Robert H. Schuller

22. “Focusing on Earning the Right will have an incredible effect on the success of every single sales call that you will make from this day on.” ― Chris Murray

23. “For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start.” ― Brian E Boyd

24. “Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.” ― Ryan Lilly

25. “Great leaders don’t lead others with bitterness or resentfulness of past mistakes, they lead with hope and knowledge of the past to inform greater decision making in the future.” ― Spencer Fraseur

26. “Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” ― Theodore Isaac Rubin

27. “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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28. “If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.” ― J. Paul Getty

29. “If you’re not reaching back to help anyone then you’re not building a legacy.” ― Germany Kent

30. “If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.” ― Elon Musk

31. “Imagine a world full of people who take their choices seriously, carefully weighing the options presented to them. I wonder where we would be if people put as much thought into their decision-making process as they do so many other things in their lives.” ― Spencer Fraseur

32. “Immerse yourself in the customer’s world and get to know their struggles and triumphs inside out.” ― Dane Brookes

33. “In life and in business, your word must have value. Integrity is a priceless asset. Remember, a check is only as good as the person writing it. If their credibility is questionable, you may want to invest your time elsewhere.” ― Carlos Wallace

34. “In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.” ― Sheryl Sandberg

35. “It is important to set goals that may be a challenge but to not over commit.” ― Mark Villareal

36. “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” ― Adam Smith

37. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” ― Thomas A. Edison

38. “Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders– they are outsold.” ― Jim Holden

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39. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” ― Dale Carnegie

40. “No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.” ― Niccolo Machiavelli

41. “Not paying attention to your market research results is not just a waste of your market research efforts but also a loss of an opportunity to make your business more profitable.” ― Pooja Agnihotri

42. “Once you believe that you can do something, there is not a single person in the universe who can convince you otherwise.” ― Germany Kent

43. “Own things. And let the things you own own other things.” ― Toni Morrison

44. “Projects become complex because we try to solve it alone. Use your working relationships to help you problem solve. Your solution may be as easy as asking your online community for help and direction.” ― Lisa Mininni

45. “Public opinion only affects those who do not know their destiny.” ― Daryl Baugh

46. “Relationships are the only thing that matter in business in life.” ― Jerry Weintraub

47. “Running the company for the shareholders often reduces its long-term growth potential.” ― Ha-Joon Chang

48. “Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.” ― Brian E Boyd

49. “Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn’t happen by accident.” ― Brian E Boyd

50. “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” ― Peter Drucker

51. “The fact that you have started a small business doesn’t mean you should be thinking small. Think BIG! Start Small! Expand your territories!” ― Bernard Kelvin Clive

52. “The goal shouldn’t be to make the perfect decision every time but to make less bad decisions than everyone else.” ― Spencer Fraseur

53. “The greatest leaders in the world fight cognitive bias by developing ‘rules to live by’ and carefully following predetermined routines to maximize efficiency and control of their environment” ― Spencer Fraseur

54. “The moment you will start considering market research as an ongoing process of your business, you will start uncovering so many hidden insights.” ― Pooja Agnihotri

55. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” ― Colin Powell

56. “There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” ― Sam Walton

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57. “Think of every contact a customer has with your brand as the most important encounter of your life.” ― Dane Brookes

58. “To be successful, you have to be able to relate to people; they have to be satisfied with your personality to be able to do buisness with you and to build a relationship with mutual trust.” ― Geroge Ross

59. “Value is often associated with how much you want something. If you really want it, you are more inclined to place a higher value on it. The opposite equally applies.” ― Victor Kwegyir

60. “We are all skyscrapers, continually adding rooms and floors to who we are. Once one floor is done, the next begins and the result is a constant work in progress. The best business leaders treat their companies like projects never to be completed, only improved and refined, so why shouldn’t we also treat ourselves as such?” ― Spencer Fraseur

61. “What we value and our priorities in life make us who we are. We are unique not only because of our outward differences, but arguably more importantly, our inward differences. Our values steer our personal and professional lives and have a distinct imprint on the decisions we make.” ― Spencer Fraseur

62. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” ― Mark Twain

63. “You are in control of your priorities – you can erase old priorities and define new priorities at will.” ― Isaiah Hankel

64. “You can only profit off of your popularity if you have a product you are selling. A positive image is desirable but yields no financial gains.” ― Germany Kent

65. “You’ll never make a fortune working for the boss man” ― Jeannette Walls

66. “Your business would not have any income if it wasn’t for it’s customers. So it’s very important to always and openly express gratitude for the customers.” ― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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