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Hello

Does anyone know of where I can find a collated list of (potentially/hopefully) thousands of inspirational quotes, geared towards business minded people/entrepreneurs...

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Quick, practical options for getting thousands of business/entrepreneurial quotes in a machine-friendly format. wants a text file or SQL dump; ’s suggestion to search is fine, but the fastest, least risky sources are open datasets and open-source APIs you can clone or self-host. The open Quotable project provides both a public API and a GitHub data repo you can clone; it’s the easiest place to start. (github.com)

If you want a straightforward download: clone the Quotable data repo and use the included JSON as your canonical source, then convert to whatever format you need (CSV, NDJSON, or SQL). Example flow (run where you want the files stored):

git clone https://github.com/quotable-io/data.git
cp data/quotes.json ./quotes.json

Convert to SQLite quickly with a small Python script (example below). Replace field names if your copy uses different keys.

import json, sqlite3
q = json.load(open('quotes.json'))
conn = sqlite3.connect('quotes.db')
c = conn.cursor()
c.execute("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS quotes (id TEXT PRIMARY KEY, content TEXT, author TEXT, tags TEXT)")
for item in q:
    tid = item.get('_id') or item.get('id')
    c.execute("INSERT OR IGNORE INTO quotes VALUES (?,?,?,?)",
              (tid, item.get('content') or item.get('quote'), item.get('author'), ','.join(item.get('tags',[]))))
conn.commit(); conn.close()

If you prefer to build the dump by calling an API (useful to filter by tag like business/leadership or to page results), use Quotable’s paginated endpoints and append each page to a newline-delimited JSON file, then import to SQL. The public API supports paging and tag filters, so you can target business-related tags programmatically. (github.com)

A few cautions and alternatives: QuoteSlate and other open APIs let you self-host if you need high-volume or custom filtering. Avoid scraping commercial sites (Goodreads, BrainyQuote, etc.) because of terms-of-service and copyright restrictions—Kaggle sometimes hosts scraped collections but those can be legally grey. Prefer open-source data or your own curated copy to stay safe. (github.com)

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Here's a thought. Have you tried googling Inspirational quotes business?

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If you read my full question, I want potentially thousands of such quotes inside something like a text file, or maybe an sql dump. Something I can write a script to be able to manipulate.

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