25 Inspirational Quotes
By Staff Writer, écoute moi
A list of 25 inspirational quotes from business people and individuals of note from around the world and in different periods of history.
- “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over”
(Sir Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group)
- “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said, a faster horse”
(Henry Ford, Founder, Ford)
- “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable”
(Coco Chanel, Founder, Chanel)
- “Don’t ever let someone tell you, you can’t do something. Not even me”
(Chris Gardener, Gardner Rich & Co)
- “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning”
(Bill Gates, Founder, Microsoft)
- “There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business there”
(Colonel Sanders, Founder, KFC)
- “Hire people that are better than you and then leave them to get on with it”
(David Ogilvy, Founder, Ogilvy & Mather)
- “The most dangerous thing for a branded product is low interest”
(Dietrich Mateschitz, Co-Founder, Red Bull)
- “The client is not always right”
(Enzo Ferrari, Founder, Ferrari)
- “I’m not afraid to take a swing and miss”
(Fred Smith, Founder, FedEx Corporation)
- “I never fall down, I always fight”
(Gianni Versace, Founder Gianni Versace S.p.A)
- “Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing”
(Guy Kawasaki, Board Member, Wikimedia Foundation)
- “Success is best when its shared”
(Howard Schultz, Chairman & CEO, Starbucks)
- “To do a common thing uncommonly will bring success”
(Henry J. Heinz, Founder, H J. Heinz Company)
- “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect”
(Jack Dorsey, Co-Founder, Twitter)
- “Never give up. Today is hard tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine”
(Jack Ma, Founder, Alibaba Group)
- “It is during the bad times that the skilled manager lays firm foundations for future growth”
(Konosuke Matsushita, Founder, Panasonic)
- “Of course I make mistakes I’m human. If I didn’t make mistakes, I’d never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes”
(Alexander McQueen, Fashion Designer)
- “Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand”
(Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, Facebook)
- “My definition of ‘innovative’ is providing value to the customer”
(Mary Barra, CEO General Motors)
- “When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable”
(Meg Whitman, CEO Hewlett Packard)
- “Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure”
(Michael Bloomberg, Founder, Bloomberg LP)
- “Only the best is good enough”
(Ole Kirk Christiansen, Founder, The Lego Group)
- “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”
(Peter Drucker, Management Consultant & Author)
- “You have to create something from nothing”
(Ralph Lauren, Founder Ralph Lauren Corporation)