The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’.

23

Jeff Bezos

21

Quotes for your business presentation

This is a collection of thoughts about business, entrepreneurship, beginning, perseverance, focus and success, that may have an influence your mind set and perspective and that's why might be suitable to help convincing your audience or to even start a presentation with.

Presentation

Communication

Business

Get

Explore more quotes

There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world.

Phil Libin

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Henry Ford

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.

Reid Hoffman

If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Max Lucado

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied, is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work, is to love what you do.

Steve Jobs

The man who moves a mountain, begins by carrying away small stones.

Confucius

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Warren Buffett

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Rumi

You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

Michael Dell

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

Brian Chesky

The two most important days in your life is the day you were born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Bruce Lee

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.

Elon Musk

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Deepak Chopra

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Marie Curie

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Napoleon Hill

Shell and Exxon support export, but refiners like Valero could end up paying more for the crude oil.

Gene Green

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

Dorothy Parker

I believe in human beings and that all human beings should be respected as such regardless of their color.

Malcolm X

I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.

Gary Lockwood

Children need love especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold Hulbert

There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.

Mitch McConnell

I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.

Arsenio Hall

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

C. S. Lewis

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

Rem Koolhaas

Brevities are the golden formations in the quartz of literature.

James Lendall Basford

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.

Eric Clapton

Our human population continues to expand at such a scary rate - it's unbelievable.

Bindi Irwin

I need theatre for my equilibrium because in theatre, the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity; you are more independent.

Clotilde Hesme

All men are equal before fish.

Herbert Hoover

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

Annie Lennox

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

Morris West

We have so much left to experience and learn about each other - it's almost like we've been remarried with the show being over. Now it's a whole new life for us.

Nick Lachey

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness... an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

Richard Carlson

The climate is changing; I don't think you can deny that. But climate has always changed.

Ryan Zinke

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

Kenny Troutt

To be governed is to be watched inspected spied upon directed law driven numbered regulated enrolled indoctrinated preached at controlled checked estimated valued censured and commanded by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.

Pierre Joseph Prouhon

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.

Joseph Lancaster

If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.

Rafael Nadal

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion.

Tom Selleck