Here are lists of inspirational quotes from highly successful entrepreneurs who have given their lives to Christ.
Pat Robertson – Founder of Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN)
1. If you give to God, He gives back thirty, sixty and one hundredfold. – Pat Robertson
2. When we started, there was no money available for us. I bought a bag of soybeans — 70 pounds for two dollars — and we literally lived on soybeans. We just didn’t have any money to spend. Everything was devoted to getting the Christian Broadcasting Network underway. My first year, total income was $8,000 for the whole enterprise. Second year it was $20,000. And now our income is in the $600 to $700 million range. So it does grow. You bet. – Pat Robertson
3. Tithing is giving the first 10 percent of your income to the poor, benevolent projects and in Biblical times, to the Temple of the Lord. In the Old Testament, people actually tithed three times, to give 25 to 30 percent of their income. While the churches may get upset, I don’t think it has to go to the church.- Pat Robertson
4. The most important virtue is humility, to have a servant’s heart, to listen to what people are saying, and to be empathetic to employees. I think that pride and arrogance are killers.- Pat Robertson
5. Hire the very best people possible and give them a strategic vision of where you want to go and give maximum freedom to employees to carry out the vision. – Pat Robertson
6. A good leader delegates. I get up early, to pray, read and think. If I didn’t have that time to myself, I would lose my mind! I do play golf and I have horses. I go out to the country. I’m not as busy as I used to be. As they say in the television industry, “I paid my dues.” They used to call me day and night, though. – Pat Robertson
Do Won Chang – Founder of Forever 21
7. Many people would expect I would be praying for something big. But that's not the case. I pray for my personal life, my business. And I just talk to God like a friend. - Do Won Chang
8. When I was in LA, I used to always go to church at 5 am to pray and start my day.- Do Won Chang
9. When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning. Whenever drivers drove nice cars, I'd ask them what job they had. They all said it was in the garment business. At the time, I didn't even know what "garment" meant. I later learned that it was the clothing business. And that is how I went on to start my clothing store.- Do Won Chang
10. In the beginning of our first year, the shop had sold only $100 worth of products per day. Predicted to make $30,000 a year. But, by the end of the year, we had total sales worth $700,000. So that's when I realized, if I kept going like this, I would have a good business.- Do Won Chang
11. This year, we are probably close to $4 billion. - Do Won Chang
12. I have never once thought of myself as a billionaire. Even today, I got here on a bus. I think it's better for me to challenge myself and work harder instead of going for a comfortable life. - Do Won Chang
13. If you look at Jewish people, there are many cases where families work in a company together. And boost its growth. I would like to follow that example and become a better company. - Do Won Chang
14. I want to ask you whether you have read that verse (John 3:16)? It shows us how much God loves us. The love he gave us, by giving us his only son, Jesus, was so unbelievable to me. I hoped others would learn of God's love. So that's why I put it there. - Do Won Chang
Sam Walton founder of Walmart
15. 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
16. We're all working together; that's the secret. - Sam Walton
17. If you want a successful business, your people must feel that you are working for them—not that they are working for you. - Sam Walton
Colonel Sanders – Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken
18. I still believe in the importance of charity, which means giving to God his just measure of goods he has seen fit to bestow on you in the form of material gain. When I started out in the franchise business, I didn’t know exactly what I was doing by promising God his part if he helped make my enterprise a success, but I now think that that is the reason for my success ever since. - Colonel Sanders
19. Lots of nights I would sleep in the back of my car so I would have enough money to buy cookers the next day if someone took a franchise. - Colonel Sanders
20. It (KFC) took about two years. I made only about a nickel on every chicken that they sold. And they got three dinners out of it. But I got one nickel for the whole meal. But you’d be surprised at how fast those nickels added up… I finally got up to where I had an income of a thousand dollars a day. - Colonel Sanders
21. Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. - Colonel Sanders
22. One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping-stone to something better. - Colonel Sanders
23. I never limited myself to serving gas. I also repaired flat tires that customers left at the station. The service station was open until 9 o’clock, then when I closed I repaired the inner tubes. Sometimes I didn’t finish working until 1 or 2 o’clock in the morning. Then I opened again at 5 a.m. Most gas stations didn’t open until 7, and I sold more gas between 5 and 7 in the morning than the other stations sold all day. - Colonel Sanders
24. There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business there. - Colonel Sanders
25. I pray to the Almighty to encourage you to dedicate your life to Jesus Christ. Whatever difficulties you may have to face, turn to him, recognize him and render him all your glory, and he will help you overcome. - Colonel Sanders
26. When Jesus took the cussing out I lost 50% of my vocabulary. - Colonel Sanders
Sir John Templeton – Founder of Templeton Fund
27. Invest at the point of maximum pessimism. - John Templeton
28. If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd. - John Templeton
29. If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search. - John Templeton
Mary Kay Ash - Founder of May Kay Cosmetics
30. Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. - Mary Kay Ash
31. Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. - Mary Kay Ash
Tyler Perry – Founder of Tyler Perry Studios
31. Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living. - Tyler Perry
32. You will always fine jealous people. They’re the ones promoting you. - Tyler Perry
33. God will prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies so let them watch you eat. It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need. - Tyler Perry
34. You will always fine jealous people. They’re the ones promoting you. - Tyler Perry
35. God will prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies so let them watch you eat. - Tyler Perry
36. You know what the question is that a lot of people ask me all the time, ‘How did you make it, how did you make it?’ Well I tell you there is only one answer for that, “The truth be told, it was nothing but the grace of God. I say this in the press all the time but people will cut it out of articles or they don’t wanna print it or they don’t wanna say it. - Tyler Perry
37. Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection. - Tyler Perry
38. Being alone doesn't necessarily mean that you're lonely. - Tyler Perry
Strive Masiyiwa - Founder of Econet Wireless
39. You can only find opportunities if you are looking for them. - Strive Masiyiwa
40. The opportunity is in the problem. The moment I see a problem, I immediately begin to think about the opportunities that can be created by trying to solve it. - Strive Masiyiwa
41. My favorite business book is the bible. If you study the bible with a view to extracting principles on how to set up, and manage a business effectively, you will be absolutely amazed; it has everything. - Strive Masiyiwa
42. A vision on its own is not enough. Hard work & dedication is required to make that vision a reality. - Strive Masiyiwa
Cathy Hughes - Founder of Radio One
43. You have to be willing to go out on faith. That’s the reason I believe in the power of prayer, because I believe you have to be able to first believe in a being superior to you, You have to believe in God and once you’re able to believe in God and embrace the greatness of the creator, then you’re able to believe in yourself and embrace the greatness that God put into you and each of us, and you’re able to tap into that. But there will be days. - Cathy Hughes
44. You must be very persistent, and you have to have the confidence in yourself that you can achieve that which you are seeking to accomplish. - Cathy Hughes
45. I don't view things as lows and highs. Business has its ups and downs and everything in life is a cycle. Everyone's life has ups and downs, so I don't take it personally. As the Good Book says, "this too shall pass away" and I live by that adage that bad times will not only pass but so will good times. I've had challenging times, but it's kind of dangerous to say what was the lowest because you don't know what the good Lord has in store for you in the future. - Cathy Hughes
46. When people know they can count on you to be good to your word, you can build relationships that are far more valuable to you than money and the money just automatically follows. - Cathy Hughes
David Green – Founder of Hobby Lobby
47. To succeed in retail, you have to love it. The process of bringing items in, displaying them attractively, and seeing them miraculously change into actual cash in the drawer has to get your blood racing. - David Green
48. We're still family-owned, which keeps life a whole lot simpler. When my wife and kids and I decide to make a business move, we don't have to ask Wall Street about it. - David Green
49. It is by God's grace and provision that Hobby Lobby has endured. Therefore, we seek to honor God by operating the company in a manner consistent with biblical principles. - David Green
50. When Hobby Lobby was created in the early 1970s, I was committed to use profits to help ministry work. - David Green
51. I want to be the very best competitor I can be. The Bible says, "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom" (Ecclesiastes 9:10). - David Green
Norm Miller – Interstate Batteries CEO
52. I came to Christ under duress. I realized that I had become an alcoholic and all of the life-trappings I acquired were no longer satisfying to me. I was an empty person. On top of that, I was anxious with the fear of failure. It was around that time that a friend of mine told me I needed to read the Bible. It was God's Word and it was truth. I simply asked God to prove that His Word was true. - Norm Miller
53. I came across the Scripture in Galatians 5:22 where it talks about the fruit of the Spirit. All I read were the first three attributes and I realized that was exactly what I am looking for-love, joy and peace. I knew that if I had love, joy and peace then I really had life. Circumstances really didn't make any difference if I could have these things. So, if this was the fruit of the Spirit, I wanted to know how I could get the Spirit. Then I read in Matthew 7:7 where it says, "seek and ye shall find." I told God, "I am a seeker and Your Word says that I shall-not may- find. - Norm Miller