33 best quotes about business growth (2025)

1. If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs. – Dhirubhai Ambani, founder, Reliance Industries
2. Play by the rules, but be ferocious. – Phil Knight, founder, Nike
3. It is impossible to progress without change, and those who do not change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw, playwright and political activist
4. Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. – Clayton Christensen, economist and Harvard professor
5. Test, measure, learn. It is the best way to understand what works best for your company and invest in the right area to get more efficient and achieve business growth. – Irina Georgieva, co-founder and CEO, Enterprise League
6. Every problem is a gift — without problems we would not grow. – Anthony Robbins, motivational speaker and writer
7. There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. – Ronald Reagan, 40th US president
8. Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. – John F. Kennedy, 35th US president
9. The road to success is always under construction – Lily Tomlin, actress
10. Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. – Napoleon Hill, author
11. Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom. – William George Jordan, writer/editor
12. If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die. – Warren Buffet, investor
13. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison
14. Sell for an amount of money that will sustain your business and sustain your life. Megan Auman, jewelry designer
15. Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom. – William George Jordan, writer/editor
16. The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first. – Sergey Brin, co-founder, Google
17. Incredible things in the business world are never made by a single person, but by a team. – Steve Jobs, co-founder, Apple
18. Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time. – Jamie Dimon, CEO, JPMorgan
19. Never lower your price, add value. – Grant Cardone, author
20. Experiment with new technologies and try out new workflows and processes. There is always a way to improve your productivity, quality and internal processes, leading to a lower lead time and faster business growth. – Atanas Georgiev, CTO, Enterprise League
21. Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble.
22. Profit is not something to add on at the end, it is something to plan for in the beginning. – Megan Auman, jewelry designer
23. To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Thomas Watson, Sr., former CEO, IBM
24. Happy employees lead to happy customers, which leads to more profits. – Vaughn Aust, EVP of Integrated Solutions, MarketStar
25. Many companies get trapped by the paradox of hitting numbers ‘now’ versus improving sales for future quarters or years ahead. – Tiffani Bova, Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist, Salesforce
26. All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. – Ellen Glasgow
27. Focus on being productive instead of busy. – Tim Ferris, entrepreneur
28. The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you’ll fail ten times for every success. – Adam Horwitz, entrepreneur
29. Who dares – wins! – SAS motto
30. If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business. – B.C. Forbes, journalist founder of Forbes Magazine
31. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple
32. “Business opportunities are like buses; there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson
33. “Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.” – James Cash Penney, founder of J.C. Penney