Here’s a collection of inspiring, motivational, and insightful quotes tailored for agency owners who navigate the challenges and triumphs of running a business:
Top 100 Quotes for Agency Owners
- “Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.” – Jeff Bezos
- “Clients don’t care about the labor pains; they want to see the baby.” – Tim Williams
- “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
- “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
- “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
- “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
- “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
- “The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
- “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
- “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” – Warren Buffett
- “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
- “The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.” – Hasidic Proverb
- “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” – Warren Buffett
- “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
- “The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing.” – Tom Fishburne
- “People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories, and magic.” – Seth Godin
- “The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions.” – John Hancock
- “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
- “Make your team feel respected, empowered, and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.” – Tim Westergren
- “The customer’s perception is your reality.” – Kate Zabriskie
- “Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.” – Peter Drucker
- “Success is not about being the best. It’s about always getting better.”
- “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” – Michael Porter
- “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Thomas Watson Sr.
- “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” – Jack Welch
- “Clients buy from those they trust, not from those who know the most.”
- “The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.” – Brian Tracy
- “A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.” – Jeff Bezos
- “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” – Warren Buffett
- “There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” – Sam Walton
- “Clients don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.” – Donald Porter
- “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
- “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi
- “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.” – Michael LeBoeuf
- “Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.” – Walt Disney
- “The greatest asset of a company is its people.” – Jorge Paulo Lemann
- “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages.” – Henry Ford
- “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
- “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” – Ken Blanchard
- “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.” – Ingvar Kamprad
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” – Robert Collier
- “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.” – James Cash Penney
- “The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.” – John C. Maxwell
- “The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.”
- “You don’t build a business, you build people, then people build the business.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Your goal as an agency is to understand what customers need, want, and aspire to. That is what you will deliver to them.”
- “You can have everything you want in life if you will just help other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- “The customer experience will never exceed the employee experience.” – Tony Bridwell
- “The biggest mistake a small business can make is to think like a small business.” – Aruna Bhayana
- “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Business opportunities are like buses; there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson
- “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – H.E. Luccock
- “Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.” – Leo Burnett
- “A successful business requires one simple thing: Passion.” – Teresa Collins
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Customer service shouldn’t just be a department, it should be the entire company.” – Tony Hsieh
- “Excellence is not a skill. It’s an attitude.” – Ralph Marston
- “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” – Tony Robbins
- “A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you aren’t.” – Howard Schultz
- “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
- “An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” – Jack Welch
- “The best way to escape competition is to do something others can’t.” – Peter Thiel
- “Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.” – Seth Godin
- “The best leaders are those who know how to serve others.”
- “Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.” – N.R. Narayana Murthy
- **”A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you aren’t.”** – Howard Schultz
- “The key to success is to start before you are ready.” – Marie Forleo
- “Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.” – Peter Drucker
- “The success of a company is as much about the value you offer your employees as the value you provide your customers.”
- “Don’t be busy, be productive.”
- “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” – Henry Ford
- “The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.” – Peter Drucker
- “An obstacle is often a stepping stone.” – Prescott Bush
- “Always deliver more than expected.” – Larry Page
- “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
- “It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin
- “Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.” – Ryan Freitas
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
- “Success in business requires training, discipline, and hard work.” – David Rockefeller
- “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.” – Anthony Volodkin
- “Business is a human enterprise; it’s all about relationships.” – Diane Von Furstenberg
- “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin
- “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie
- “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison
- “The biggest challenge in business is not competition, but your own thoughts and mindset.”
- “To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.” – Doug Conant
- “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
- “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “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.” – Steve Jobs
These quotes can inspire and guide agency owners in navigating their businesses toward success.