Business Owners Quotes:

A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.

- James Cook

topic: Owners, Business Owners

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

- Nolan Bushnell

source: "Mina Bekheet - Cofounder of Oxford Biotech". Enterprising Oxford interview, www.eship.ox.ac.uk.

topic: Ideas, People, Entrepreneur, Amazing People, Successful Leaders

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. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Way In Life

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

- David Rockefeller

topic: Motivational, Success, Hard Work, Inspirational Hard Work, Inspired To Work

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Business, Innovation And Leadership, Inspiration And Innovation

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Graduation, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Team

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

- Henry Ford

topic: Money, Funny Inspirational, Business, Model T, Own Business

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100 percent from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement.

- Kevin Systrom

topic: Inspiring, Success, Jobs, Quitting Your Job, Business Owners

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

- Pierre Corneille

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Taking Risks, Inspirational Runner

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

- Madam C. J. Walker

topic: Inspirational, Opportunity, Waiting, Business Woman, Own Business

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

- Paul Ryan

topic: Business, Cities, Knowing, Hardware, Salons

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

- Donald Trump

topic: Inspirational, Success, Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Starting Week

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top Management

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Heart, Follow Your Heart, Intuition, Inner Voice, Business Life

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

- Drew Houston

source: "The Era Of The #fumblebrag" by Caleb Garling, www.wired.com. March 26, 2015.

topic: Business, Worry, Young Entrepreneurs, Starting Up, Business Owners

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

- Bill Gates

topic: Leadership, Motivation, Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Business Life

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

- Biz Stone

source: Twitter post from Sep 03, 2010

topic: Inspiring, Perseverance, Business, Successful Entrepreneurs, Overnight Success

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

- Caterina Fake

topic: Business, Important, Entrepreneurship, Inspired To Work, Business Woman

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

- J. Paul Getty

topic: Business, Succeed, Individual, Super Motivational, Business Meeting

The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

- Mark Cuban

topic: Basketball, Business, Nba, Starting Week, Good Week

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Life, Motivational, Success, Business Life, Inspiring Business

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

- Madam C. J. Walker

topic: Business, Hard Work, Empowerment, Inspiring Business, Inspirational Hard Work

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

- Zig Ziglar

source: "Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.

topic: Loyalty, Business, Educational, Customer Experience, Inspiring Business

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inner Voice, Job Growth

The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

- Mark Cuban

topic: Business, Nba, Good Week, Starting Week, Personal Business

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

- Mark Zuckerberg

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Morning, Risk, Young Entrepreneurs, Successful Entrepreneurs, Chance And Risk

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.

- Tony Hsieh

topic: Business, Vision, Ends, Starting New Business, Successful Entrepreneurs

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Motivational, Success, Business, Life Opportunity, Motivation And Drive

High expectations are the key to everything.

- Sam Walton

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball, Inspiring Business, Entrepreneurial Spirit

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

- Donald Trump

topic: Inspirational, Sometimes, Investment, Best Investment, Investment Success

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

- Ray Kroc

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspiring, Success, Motivation, Marketing And Sales, Job Satisfaction

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

- Arianna Huffington

source: FaceBook post by Arianna Huffington from Mar 22, 2014

topic: Running, Business, Exercise, Fearlessness, Own Business

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Inspirational, Business, War, Market Risk, Investment Success

A man should never neglect his family for business.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Family, Inspiring, Happy Family, Inspirational Family

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Perseverance, Successful, Young Entrepreneurs, Perserverance

The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Opportunity, Complaining, Customer Experience, Inspiring Business, Inspirational Service

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

- Norman Schwarzkopf

topic: Leadership, Business, Character, Good Character, Inspiring Leader

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas A. Edison

source: "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

topic: Funny, Life, Motivational, Make Me Feel Better, Makin Money

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Empowering Women, International Business

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

- Richard Branson

source: Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

topic: Inspirational, Success, Encouraging, Live And Learn, Business Life

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

- Richard Branson

topic: Inspirational, Business, Opportunity, Social Entrepreneurship, Young Entrepreneurs

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Business Life, Failure In Life

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Leadership, Art, Business, Management Motivation, Funny Leadership