When it comes to motivational quotes and words, most of us are left clueless when it comes to motivating ourselves and staff. This compilation of inspiring business quotes would give you great and many reasons to do so.

“We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.” - Harold J. Leavitt

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” – Stephen R. Covey

“When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.” – John W. Gardner

“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.” – Paul Hawken

“Focus on a few key objectives … I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I’m really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.” – Jack Welch

“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.” – Agha Hasan Abedi

We hope that motivational business quotes help you to gain continuing momentum to lead a successful business so that the purpose of this compilation does not get defeated.

Leadership is not magnetic personality—that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people”—that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. - Peter F. Drucker

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him….But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, “We did it ourselves. – Lao Tzu

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. – Mary D. Poole

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. – James L. Fisher

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. – Charles deGaulle

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice. – Max DePree

We hope that these inspiring business quotes and leadership have given you great impetus to start things in an energetic manner.

It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because… All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are. – Mark Cuban

Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences. There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend. On the flipside, I have been rewarded with many friends. – Mark Cuban

The entrepreneur is not really interested in doing the work; he is interested in creating the way the company operates. In that regard, the entrepreneur is an inventor. He or she loves to invent, but does not love to manufacture or sell or distribute what he or she invents. – Michael Gerber

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really – Andrew Grove

We hope that this blog on business quotes was more than enough to make you motivated all over again.