25 Famous Business Quotes from Famous Business People

There's nothing like an inspirational quote to get your day started, motivate the troops, and share on your social networks to give others some mental fuel for their day. Especially if it's a quote from someone who is truly inspiring.

Steve Jobs

These quotes are taken from the iconic innovator's 2005 commencement address to Stanford University:

"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."

"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. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish."

Thomas Edison

The Steve Jobs of the Industrial Revolution, Thomas Alva Edison is the model for the tinkerer who changes the way we live.

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Tweet this!

Donald Trump

Donald Trump may not be everyone's cup of tea, but there's no doubt he's been successful.

"Without passion, you don't have energy. Without energy, you have nothing."

"If you're interested in balancing work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead, make your work more pleasurable."

"As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big."

Mark Zuckerberg

The founder of Facebook can be as polarizing as Donald Trump, but there's no question that the company he built was an Internet game changer.

"The question isn't, 'What do we know about people?' It's 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'"

"Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough."

"People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard."

Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos didn't invent the Internet, but he did invent a company that is the model for conducting ecommerce.

"You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate." Tweet this!

"The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies ... The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller amount into shouting about it, marketing it."

"Frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out."