What makes some entrepreneurs more successful than others? What do they do differently in business? What is their secret? To answer these questions, you would need to study their biographies, which I highly recommend that you do. But on the other hand, sometimes one statement can be just as powerful and enlightening as a whole book, forcing us to reconsider our views, to believe in ourselves, to take action and to create the life of our dreams. Those are the statements that change people forever.

Below you will find a list of top business motivation quotes that I have been collecting for the past 3+ years.. it is my list of top 200 business motivation quotes of all time! Not all the quotes come from entrepreneurs, but all of them can be applied to business and rightfully deserved their spot.

Also, if you have another one to add that is not on this list of business motivation quotes, feel free to do so in the comment section below. Enjoy!

Top 100 Business Motivation Quotes

1. Those who don’t take risks, don’t drink champagne.

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

– Tony Robbins

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3. Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. – Norman Vincent Peale

4. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. – Og Mandino

5. Pessimism never won any battle. – Dwight Eisenhower

6. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

7. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. – Les Brown

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All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. – Walt Disney

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9. The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. – Dale Carnegie

10. Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. – John Ruskin

11. The moment you need a paycheck, you are no longer free. – Robert Kiyosaki

Robert Kiyosaki is brilliant when it comes to business motivation quotes. The one above is my favorite.. it’s so true!

12. Only a mediocre person is always at his best. – W. Somerset Maugham

13. Find people who will make you better. – Michelle Obama

14. Well done, is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin

15. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

16. It’s fun to do the impossible. – Walt Disney

17. Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult. – Winston Churchill

18. You’re not defined by your past; you’re prepared by it. You’re stronger, more experienced, and you have greater confidence. – Joel Osteen

19. Bad things are not the worst thing that can happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us. – Richard Bach

20. You could be the world’s best garbage man, the world’s best model; it don’t matter what you do if you’re the best. -Muhammad Ali

21.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

– Oprah Winfrey

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22. What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

23. If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all? – Joe Namath

24. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on. – Robert Frost

25. The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. – Tony Robbins

26. 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. – Steve Jobs

27. 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

28. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley

29. When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. – Audre Lorde

30.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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31. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

32. In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. – Theodore Roosevelt

33. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. – Robert Collier

34. If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn

35. Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.

We can either react to circumstances or we can respond. Responding is what allows us to be in control. That is exactly what this business motivation quote is about.

36. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. – Herman Melville

37. If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. – Jim Rohn

38.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. – Napolean Hill

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39. Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – Lolly Daskal

40. Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston S. Churchill

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. – John F. Kennedy

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42. Whatever happens, take responsibility. – Tony Robbins

43. Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams. – Dwayne Johnson

44. Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune. – Jim Rohn

45. Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. – Marilyn vos Savant

46. Don’t waste your time being upset about something you can’t change. Begin again and do it better this time. – Joyce Meyer

47. Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best. – St. Jerome

48. Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs – but move on. – Paulo Coelho

49. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. – Franklin D.

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The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do. – Bill Phillips

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51. Do one thing every day that scares you. – Eleanor Roosevelt

52. Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. – John D. Rockefeller

53. Every master was once a disaster. – T. Harv Eker

54. You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. – Zig Ziglar

55.

If not you, who? If not now, when?

– Hillel the Elder

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56. Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. – Chris Grosser

57. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

58. Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. – John C. Maxwell

59.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

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60. The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. – Denis Waitley

61. The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. – Abraham Lincoln

62. Don’t spend your precious time asking “Why isn’t the world a better place?” It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is “How can I make it better?” To that there is an answer. – Leo Buscaglia

63.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

– Brian Tracy

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64. If you worry about yesterday’s failures, then today’s successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present. – Mahatma Gandhi

65. Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. – Jim Rohn

66. The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. – Confucius

67. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

68. Every problem is a gift – without problems we would not grow. – Tony Robbins

If Tony’s business motivation quotes cannot inspire, then I don’t know who’s can! In the toughest moments, he has always been the number one source of inspiration for me.

69. Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. – Michael Jordan

70. The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there. – Vince Lombardi

71. Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. – Jim Rohn

72. Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. – Gail Devers

73.

Be a voice not an echo.

– Albert Einstein

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74. Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. – William Arthur Ward

75. Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. – Les Brown

76. Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. – Lou Holtz

77.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. – Stephen Covey

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78. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill

79. If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh

80. In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein

81. I don’t believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work. – Michel Petrucciani

82. Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you. – Jim Rohn

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. – Charles Kettering

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84. If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse. – Jim Rohn

85. You may delay, but time will not. – Benjamin Franklin

86. There are so many people that use ‘following your dreams’ as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work. – Brandon Stanton

87. It’s not a sin to get knocked down; it’s a sin to stay down. – Carl Brashear

88. Hurry up: your dreams are waiting for you, but they will not wait forever. – Paulo Coelho

89.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby

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90. Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. – Earl Nightingale

91. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. – Calvin Coolidge

92. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. – Michael Jordan

93. It’s simple … go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd. – Robin Crow

94.

Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of you future.

– Robin Sharma

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95. There’s no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It’s time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won’t learn anything new that way. – Paulo Coelho

96. Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. – Mortimer Adler

97. Find someone who is willing to share the truth with you. – Jim Rohn

98. Realize that if you can instantly create a problem, you can just as quickly and easily create a solution. – Tony Robbins

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The only thing you deserve is what you earn. – Tom Brands

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100. Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities. – Jim Rohn

101. Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. – Henry Van Dyke

102. Ya know it’s funny, what’s happening to us. Our lives have become digital. Our friends, now virtual. And, anything you could ever wanna know is just a click away. Experiencing the world through second hand information isn’t enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it. We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It’s this self-discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth. – Travis Rice

103. Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well. – Jim Rohn

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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. – Vince Lombardi

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105. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. – Pablo Picasso

106. Whatever you consistently think about and focus upon you move toward. – Tony Robbins

107. Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire. – Napoleon Hill

108. To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer. – Dabo Swinney

109. You must show no mercy…nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you…for your greatness will silence them all. – The Ultimate Warrior

110. If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward. – Geoff Hickson

111. Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running. – Kara Goucher

112. If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you’ll be ready to stop managing. And start leading. – Mark Gonzales

113.

Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.

– Lauren Fleshman

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114. People need to wake up and realize that life doesn’t wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it. – Robert Kiyosaki

115. Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy. – Robert H. Schuller

116. We have to go for what we think we’re fully capable of, not limit ourselves by what we’ve been in the past. – Vivek Paul

117. Feel the fear and do it anyway. – Susan Jeffers

118. Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about. -Winston Churchill

119. When it’s hard and you are doubtful, give more. – Francis Chan

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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. – Thomas Paine

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121. Dreams don’t work unless you do. – John C. Maxwell

122. Don’t stumble over something behind you. – Seneca the Younger

123. It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. – Bruce Lee

124. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: Try to please everybody. – Herbert Bayard Swope

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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. – Helen Keller

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126. First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. – Epictetus

127. Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. – Christian Nestell Bovee

128. If you think you’re leading, but no one is following, then you are only taking a walk. – John Maxwell

129. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. – John C. Maxwell

130. The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

131. If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it. – Jonathan Winters

What a great business motivation quote! To paraphrase, don’t wait for opportunities to come your way – create them!

132. Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi

133. It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. – E. E. Cummings

134. Complaining is silly. Either act or forget. – Stefan Sagmeister

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one. – Elbert Hubbard

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136. A champion shows who he is by what he does. – Evander Holyfield

137. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. – Bob Dylan

138. It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference. – Zig Ziglar

139. I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. – Frank Lloyd Wright

140. Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there. – Bo Jackson

141. You don’t win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential. -Bobby Orr

142.

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

– Zig Ziglar

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143. You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine. – Flip Wilson

144. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Ryun

145.

Veni, vidi, vici. – Julius Caesar

(I came; I saw; I conquered)

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146. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein

147. Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. – Khalil Gibran

148. Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. – Zig Ziglar

149. We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies – in the minds of those closest to the work. – Jack Welch

150. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. – Steve Jobs

151. Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching. – Tennessee Williams

152. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. – James Anthony Froude

153. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity. – Lou Holtz

Lou’s business motivation quote says it all – there is no way one can succeed without having to go through plenty of struggles.

154.

There is always room at the top.

– Daniel Webster

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155. It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. – Mark Twain

156. You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together. – Henry Ford

157. You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong. – Warren Buffett

158. Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. – Irving Berlin

159. Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t. – Lucille Ball

160.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.

– John F. Kennedy

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161. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. – Benjamin Franklin

162. Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. – Oprah Winfrey

163. The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vince Lombardi

164. Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. – Thomas A. Edison

165. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. – Albert Einstein

166. Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. – Wayne Dyer

167. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates

168. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Bernard Baruch

169. Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. – Benjamin Disraeli

170. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. – Winston Churchill

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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. – Henry Ford

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172. Most of life is routine – dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you’ll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street. – Ben Nicholas

173. I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. – John D. Rockefeller

174. Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive. – Edward de Bono

175. The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. – Harry Golden

176. A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. – Bruce Lee

177.

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

– Vince Lombardi

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178. Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. – Martha Graham

Martha’s business motivation quote basically summarizes the difference between a pessimist and an optimist. Pessimism is not a crime, but if you continue living with the pessimistic view of the world, you are doing yourself a huge disservice.

179. You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it. – Jared Leto

180. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. – Thomas A. Edison

181. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby

182. Before success comes in any man’s life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. – Napoleon Hill

183. The only way to earn what you’re really worth is to get paid based on your results. – T. Harv Eker

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. – David Viscott

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185. Make a decision that from now on, your thoughts do not run you, you run your thoughts. From now on, your mind is not the captain of your ship, you are the captain of the ship, and your mind works for you. – T. Harv Eker

186. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

187. The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. – Linus Pauling

188. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson

189. Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. – Alfred Armand Montapert

190. We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change. – Henry Cloud

191.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

– Harriet Beecher Stowe

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192. Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied. – Dale Carnegie

193. Never forget the difficult moments, for these will be the reason why you will enjoy your happiness most. – Prasad Narulkar

This business motivation quote is so true. Whenever I am having a difficult time, I remind myself that it is exactly these kinds of moments that are pushing me continuously to take action and to move towards a better life.

194. Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. – Plato

195. What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. – Ralph Marston

196. When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in. – Sam Shepard

197. There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don’t help them by doing the job yourself. – Laurell K. Hamilton

198.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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199. Are you satisfied with your actions today? If not, you know what to do tomorrow. – Victor Step

200. Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference. – Mark Victor Hansen

Congratulations, you’ve come to the list of top 200 business motivation quotes of all time! Hopefully, you now feel more motivated than ever. Hold on to this feeling for as long as possible and use it to take massive action and to succeed. And you feel it fading away, just come back to this list of business motivation quotes any time for an extra boost of inspiration! 😉

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