Top 15 Business Quotes of 2019

We have always been motivated by successful people and their experiences. Thus, wanted to share the best quotes of 2019 that may motivate you in moments of despair or see you through a bad phase in Business.

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A startup doesn’t know who they’re going to be two days from now, they don’t know what’s around the corner, they don’t know what the world is going to do that will be either beneficial or detrimental to their existence, but they have to be able to think on their feet, act fast and make changes without hesitation.

Many times they’re talking about risk as a bad thing. The way I think about risk is, I want to take some risks. The most dangerous thing is not taking a risk.

— Michael DellFrom the Huffington Post article “Michael Dell: ‘The Most Dangerous Thing Is Not Taking A Risk’”, Jan. 23, 2015

The key challenge—and the biggest change from business as usual—is changing the focus from how much inventory there is to how fast it’s moving.

— Michael DellFrom the article “The Power of Virtual Integration: An Interview with Dell Computer’s Michael Dell”, by Joan Magretta, published in the March 1998 issue of Harvard Business Review

The best customers for us are the ones that present us with a new problem, because chances are, if one customer has that problem, 100 more have it, or 1,000, or 10,000. So you start thinking about solution development rather than product development. That can mean anything from a new feature or capability to a new way to finance purchases or a new way to link things together.

— Michael DellFrom the article “Michael Dell: How I Became an Entrepreneur Again”, by Tom Foster, published in the July-August 2014 issue of Inc. Magazine

The point is, you can’t keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working. We had to do something different, but the really hard question was, What is it? We made plenty of mistakes along the way to answering that question, but the most important thing we identified was that we needed to know more about our customers and what problems they were really trying to solve in their businesses–even if they didn’t neatly fit into an existing category of ours.

— Michael DellFrom the article “Michael Dell: How I Became an Entrepreneur Again”, by Tom Foster, published in the July-August 2014 issue of Inc. Magazine

Customers don’t care how much time something takes to build. They only care that it serves their needs.

— Eric ReisFrom the book “The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

I always feel that failure is nothing more than life’s way of nudging you and letting you know you’re off course.

— Sarah BlakelyFounder and President of Spanx, in the book “The Risk Takers: 16 Women and Men Share their Entrepreneurial Strategies for Success” by Renee and Don Martin (Vanguard Press, published 2010, pp. 156)

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

— Brian TracyFrom the book “Great Little Book on Universal Laws of Success” (Successories Publishing, 1996, p. 73)

The line between failure and success is so fine, that we are often on the line and do not know it.

— Elbert Hubbard

Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it’s very hard to fail completely.

— Larry PageGoogle co-founder and CEO, in the book “In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes our Lives,” by Steven Levy, published by Simon and Shuster (2011), p. 12

One of the things that really define an entrepreneur is you get punched in the stomach over and over and over again, and you just have to show up the next day and keep it going. It really is just persistence.

— Jen BilikFounder of stationary and gift company Knock Knock in the Inc. Magazine interview “The Way I Work,” October 2011, pp. 114-116

I was not an overnight superstar, but I was willing to work and willing to learn, and that paid off for me. Every change I made was a small step forward, and as long as I took more steps forward than backward I felt as though I was making progress. I learned that if things weren’t working for me, I had to change, and not expect others to change. But the single greatest lesson I learned was that it takes courage, not confidence, to build a business.

— Mary ChristensenAuthor and popular speaker on direct selling and network marketing, in the book “Be a Party Plan Superstar: Build a $100,000-a-Year Direct Selling Business from Home

The biggest lesson I’ve learned is to trust my instincts. Go with your gut and respect what your instincts tell you. I’ve seen the truth of this play out so many times in a lot of different situations. The truth is that while you can (and should) do all your research and due diligence and analyze all your options, in the end it comes down to taking a leap of faith and trusting yourself.

— Emily KaneFounder, Milkmakers.com in the interview “Emily Kane: Meeting the Challenges of Breastfeeding with Milkmakers” in WomenHomeBusiness.com

If your gut tells you that a deal is too risky or that your partners seem untrustworthy, pay attention, step back, and reflect. If you go ahead anyway, do so with extra protection, especially in terms of documentation.

— If your gut tells you that a deal is too risky or that your partners seem untrustworthy, pay attention, step back, and reflect. If you go ahead anyway, do so with extra protection, especially in terms of documentation.Owner of the real estate development company The Peebles Corporation in his book The Peebles Principles, p. 112

Play by the rules, but be ferocious.

– The advice is given by Phil Knight, co-founder and past chairman of Nike. I believe that all of us need to take this to heart and make some adjustments in how we lead and run our businesses!

Do you feel inspired? Ready to start your day more positively? Before you go, don’t forget to equip yourself with the tools that will take that ambition and give it the means to achieve your lofty goals.