Discover Successful Business Insights
These will inspire your business strategy and philosophy, helping you craft compelling content that resonates with your audience. You could use these quotes to make your point to management, motivate internal teams to reset directions, emphasize new organizational needs, or reiterate your vision.
From old-school magnates to today's tech leaders, these insights cover everything from customer relations to smart risk-taking.
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"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
- Bill Gates
"The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."
- Socrates
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
- Walt Disney
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
- Steve Jobs
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
- Peter Drucker
"Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect."
- Jack Dorsey
"The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow."
- Ingvar Kamprad
"If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late."
- Reid Hoffman
"Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you."
- Tony Hsieh
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
- Mark Zuckerberg
"The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world."
- Marc Benioff
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
- John D. Rockefeller
"The most successful companies in the digital age are those that merge technology with strong leadership."
- Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
"There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them."
- Seth Godin
"The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that's hidden from the outside."
- Peter Thiel
"If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large."
- Jeff Bezos
"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."
- Aristotle Onassis
"In today's era of volatility, there is no other way but to re-invent. The only sustainable advantage you can have over others is agility, that's it."
- Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon
"Data beats emotions. The best way to make business decisions is to collect and analyze data from your customers and the market."
- Tomasz Tunguz, venture capitalist
We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth.
- Jim Rohn
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
- Zig Ziglar
Business has only two basic functions-marketing and innovation.
- Peter F. Drucker
‘An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.’
- Akio Morita