If you’re looking for business wisdom and marketing tips, look no further than our list of 100 business and marketing quotes! Over the last couple of years, we’ve been creating inspiring and insightful business quotes to share on our Instagram and we thought we’d compile them here as a resource. Be sure to follow us on Instagram for all the latest updates – @barker_social
1. “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” – George Kneller
2. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
3. “Marketing is telling the world you’re a rock star. Content Marketing is showing the world you are one.” – Robert Rose
4. “Don’t tell me how good you make it; tell me how good it makes me when I use it.” – Leo Burnett
5. “Good content isn’t about good storytelling. It’s about telling a true story well.” – Ann Handley
6. “Try to say everything in an ad and you end up saying nothing.” — Jeff Mamula
7. “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” – Carl W. Buechner
8. “The best listeners often make the most engaging conversationalists.” -Brian Solis
9. “Reach, don’t preach. Digital marketing is simply putting your customers first.”
10. “If your content isn’t driving conversation, you’re doing it wrong.” -Dan Roth
11. “There is no more B2B or B2C. It’s H2H: Human to Human.” – Bryan Kramer
12. “Content should ask people to do something and reward them for it.” – Lee Odden
13. “We all are emotional beings looking for relevance, context and connection.” – Beth Comstock
14. “Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell.” – Seth Godin
15. “The key is, no matter what story you tell, make your buyer the hero.” – Chris Brogan
16. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” – Zig Ziglar
17. “Investigate. Innovate. And then communicate.” – George Farris
18. “Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind.” – Walter Landor
19. “Marketing used to be about making a myth and telling it. Now it’s about telling a truth and sharing it.” – Brian Solis
20. “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.” – Michael LeBoeuf
21. “Good marketing makes the company look smart. Great marketing makes the customer feel smart.” – Joe Chernov
22. “Commit to a niche; try to stop being everything to everyone.” – Andrew Davis
23. “ Less is more. Keeping it simple takes time and effort.” – Jeff Bullas
24. “The best marketing strategy ever: CARE.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
25. “Nothing begets creativity like constraints.” – Christopher Mims
26. “Social media creates communities, not markets.” – Don Schultz
27. “Speak to your audience in their language about what’s in their heart.” – Jonathan Lister
28. “These days, people want to learn before they buy, be educated instead of pitched.” – Brian Clark
29. “In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.”-Peter Nivio Zarlenga
30. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.” – Benjamin Franklin
31. “Building a brand means knowing your story and building and sharing that story.” – Tamara McCleary
32. “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” – Desmond Tutu
33. “Don’t push people to where you want to be; meet them where they are.” – Meghan Keaney Anderson
34. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
35. “A brand’s job is to create a customer that creates and inspires other customers.” – Unknown
36. “People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories, and magic.” – Seth Godin
37. “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” – Simon Sinek
38. “Sell the problem you solve. Not the product you make.” – Unknown
39. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
40. “Your front door to your customer is your website.” – Russ Glass
41. “The consumer is not a moron; she is your wife.” – David Ogilvy
42. “Social media allows big companies to act small again.” – Jay Baer
43. “The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing.” – Tom Fishburne
44. “If you’re going to post content on your site anyway, you might as well take the time to make sure Google takes notice of your effort.” – The Content Factory
45. “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” -Brené Brown
46. “Content is anything that adds value to the reader’s life.” – Avinash Kaushik
47. “Not viewing your email marketing as content is a mistake.” – Chris Baggott
48. “Word of mouth can be as important, if not more important, for neighborhood businesses as traditional advertising.” – Ekaterina Walter
49. “It is not the job of search engine optimization to make a pig fly. It is the job of the SEO to genetically re-engineer the Web site so that it becomes an eagle.” – Bruce Clay
50. “Getting the Like is easy. It’s a light action. Anything else requires trust.” – Jon Loomer
51. “Content marketing is really like a first date. If all you do is talk about yourself, there won’t be a second date.” – David Beebe
52. “It’s not the best content that wins. It’s the best-promoted content that wins.” – Andy Crestodina
53. “Content is the atomic particle of all digital marketing.” – Rebecca Lieb
54. “We need to stop interrupting what people are interested in and be what people are interested in.” – Craig Davis
55. “Never stop testing because what worked yesterday may not work tomorrow.” – Unknown
56. “Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he’s hired to do.” – Malcolm Forbes
57. “Sell-sell-sell sales methods simply do not work on social media.” – Kim Garst
58. “Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.” – Anonymous
59. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin
60. “If I asked my customers what they wanted they would have said a faster horse.” – Henry Ford
61. “Traditional marketing talks at people. Content marketing talks with them.” – Doug Kessler
62. “Traditional marketing talks at people. Content marketing talks with them.” – Doug Kessler
63. “Don’t settle: Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it.” – Chris Brogan
64. “An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.” – Leo Burnett
65. “I’m always tweaking, always trying to make it better, constantly moving the levers and dials.” – Steve Ells
66. “Older people sit down and ask, ‘What is it?’ but the boy asks, ‘What can I do with it?’.” – Steve Jobs
67. “You can’t just place a few “Buy” buttons on your website and expect your visitors to buy.” – Neil Patel
68. “Stop selling. Start helping.” – Zig Ziglar
69. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, Don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg
70. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
71. “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” – Warren Buffett
72. “If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.” – Wilson Mizner
73. “There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.” – Simon Sinek
74. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
75. “Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first.” – Wendy Piersall
76. “Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.” – Doug Firebaugh 
77. “Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” – Anonymous
78. “Marketing is a contest for people’s attention.” – Seth Godin
79. “Content is King but engagement is Queen, and the lady rules the house!” -Mari Smith
80. “Content isn’t King, it’s the Kingdom.” – Lee Odden
81. “Great vision without great people is irrelevant.” – Jim Collins
82. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
83. “Content marketing is a commitment, not a campaign.” – Jon Buscall
84. “Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch
85. “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
86. “Don’t find customers for your product. Find products for your customers” – Seth Godin
87. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” – Robert Collier
88. “If beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, value is in the mind of the consumer.” – Michele Jennae
89. “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” – Sun Tzu
90. “Success is never owned; success is only rented, and the rent is due every day.” – Rory Vaden
91. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
92. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
93. “Most of us have experienced wow moments. We just haven’t taken time to think deeply about them.” – Michael Hyatt
94. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
95. “A growth mindset means focusing more on learning than knowing.” – Beth Comstock
96. “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland
97. “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra
98. “When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” – Henry J. Kaiser
99. “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” – Zig Ziglar
100. “Master the topic, the message, and the delivery.” – Steve Jobs
We hope you’ve enjoyed this list of 100 business and marketing quotes! Be sure to follow us on Instagram for all the latest updates – @barker_social
