“Finance can change the world and create millions of jobs by empowering people with ability.” — Michael Milken, financial alchemist, junk-bond prodigy (Drexel Burnham Lambert)
“Everything today is speed, and there is always somebody else working on something better.” — Ron Perelman, buyout specialist
Quotes From Business Leaders Who've Inspired
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“If you do what you’ve always done — you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” — Tony Robbins
“In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence. Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly.” — Ben Horowitz
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” –– Steve Jobs
“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” — Larry Page
“Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.” — Meg Whitman
“Whenever I meet a successful CEO, I ask them how they did it. Mediocre CEOs point to their brilliant strategic moves or their intuitive business sense or a variety of other self-congratulatory explanations. The great CEOs tend to be remarkably consistent in their answers: They all say, ‘I didn’t quit.’ — Ben Horowitz
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” — Steve Jobs
“No man can become rich without himself enriching others.” — Andrew Carnegie
“It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.” — Warren Buffett
“Being a woman in business doesn’t come without challenges. My advice? Surround yourself with other supportive women that encourage you, share ideas, and get you motivated.” — Jessica Alba
Quotes On Business From America’s Top Entrepreneurs
- “Sometimes the best way to make money is when most people say you are wrong and nuts.” — Carl Icahn, founder, Icahn Enterprises
- “Curiosity has kept me young as I have gotten older.” — Les Wexner, visionary of The Limited (Victoria’s Secret, Pink, Etc.)
- “If I give the customers my best and service them differently, whether music, clothing or vodka, I’ll get a return on my hard work.” — Sean “Diddy” Combs, hip-hop mogul (Bad Boy); fashion mogul (Sean John); liquor mogul (Ciroc)
- “Every business is a living document, an algorithm that needs to be improved.” — Billy Beane, Oakland A’s executive vice president
- “Early-stage entrepreneurs shouldn’t forget about [due diligence]. It almost stopped everything for me.” — Sara Blakely, founder, Spanx
- “I’d said to my partner Stedman, ‘What am I going to talk about for ten days and ten nights at Nelson Mandela’s house?’ And Stedman said, ‘Why don’t you try listening?'” — Oprah Winfrey, founder, Oprah Winfrey Network
- “If you’re present and awake, you become this great thinker, this great worker. You become a fine-tuned machine.” — Russell Simmons, hip-hop pioneer; serial entrepreneur; yoga guru
- “What allowed me to survive is that I was always honest and I truly believed in what I did.” — Diane von Furstenberg, fashion icon
- “You have to enjoy coming in to work each day and going to battle for what you believe in, and for the people who you believe in.” — Donald Trump, owner, The Trump Organization; 45th President of the United States
- “My biggest mistake was thinking I shouldn’t show my mistakes I learned I should.” — Jack Dorsey, CEO, Twitter, Square
- “Everything today is speed, and there is always somebody else working on something better.” — Ron Perelman, buyout specialist
- “Storytelling remains basic: It’s just a campfire, the human connection that says you’re not alone.” — Shonda Rhimes, televisionary
- “Treat and pay your staff exactly the way you’d want to be treated if you were in their place.” — John Paul DeJoria, cofounder, John Paul Mitchell Systems, Patrón Tequila
- “Today customers can tell whether product and service is good because there’s so much transparency.” — Jeff Bezos, founder, Amazon
- “If you do the right thing, the right thing will come to you.” — Berry Gordy, founder, Motown Records
- “Finance can change the world and create millions of jobs by empowering people with ability.” — Michael Milken, financial alchemist, junk-bond prodigy (Drexel Burnham Lambert)
- “We need to level the playing field so that everyone, everywhere, has a shot at the American dream.” — Steve Case, cofounder, AOL
- “We are absolutely a more profitable (and better) business because we have a mission beyond the sole pursuit of profits.” — Dan Gilbert, founder Quicken Loans
- “Maintain a culture of respect.” — Eric Schmidt, former CEO, Novell, Google
- “I think that the most important issue that will reshape our lives in the years ahead will be how man-made and artificial intelligence compete and work together.” — Ray Dalio, founder Bridgewater Associates
- Quotes From Business Leaders Who’ve Inspired
- “Success can be attained in any branch of human labor. There is always room at the top in every pursuit.” — Andrew Carnegie
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” –– Steve Jobs
- “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” — Farrah Gray
- “The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. 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
- “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen Covey
- “Don’t worry about failure. You only have to be right once.” — Drew Houston
- “Growth and comfort do not coexist.” — Ginni Rometty
- “Control your own destiny or someone else will.” — Jack Welch
- “A small business is an amazing way to serve and leave an impact on the world you live in.” — Nicole Snow
- “I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” — Jeff Bezos
- “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” — John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- “When in doubt, bootstrap. Using your own personal resources is the easiest way to start a business. You don’t have to convince investors about the merits of your idea. You just have to convince yourself.” — Ryan Holmes
- “Being a woman in business doesn’t come without challenges. My advice? Surround yourself with other supportive women that encourage you, share ideas, and get you motivated.” — Jessica Alba
- “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” — Andrew Carnegie
- “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” — Larry Page
- “In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence. Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly.” — Ben Horowitz
- “Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.” — Meg Whitman
- “If you do what you’ve always done — you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” — Tony Robbins
- “It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.” — Warren Buffett
- “Before you are a leader, success is about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is about growing others.” — Jack Welch
- “All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.” — Reid Hoffman
- “No man can become rich without himself enriching others.” — Andrew Carnegie
- “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” — Steve Jobs
- “Whenever I meet a successful CEO, I ask them how they did it. Mediocre CEOs point to their brilliant strategic moves or their intuitive business sense or a variety of other self-congratulatory explanations. The great CEOs tend to be remarkably consistent in their answers: They all say, ‘I didn’t quit.’ — Ben Horowitz