200 Inspiring Business Quotes and Sayings for Entrepreneurs

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What Is a Business?

A business is characterized as an association or venturesome element occupied with business, modern, or expert exercises.

The expression “business” additionally alludes to the coordinated endeavors and exercises of people to create and sell labor and products for benefit. Businesses can go from little activities working in one industry to huge tasks working in numerous enterprises all throughout the planet.

**“I NEVER DREAMED ABOUT SUCCESS, I WORKED FOR IT.”**

“Business Quotes”

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count.”
“Done is better than perfect.”
“No investment is without risks, and no opportunity is guaranteed. Nothing is certain. And if somebody claims it, stay away from that person.”
“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”
“Play by the rules, but be ferocious.”
“Every problem is a gift—without problems, we would not grow.”
“You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
“There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.”
“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”
“I don’t know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.”
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”
“Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it’s starting a new business, whether it’s leaving home, whether it’s getting married, or whether it’s flying into space.”
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
“The real test is not whether you avoid this failure because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”
“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.”
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.”
“The first one gets the oyster, the second gets the shell.”
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!”
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
“I feel that luck is a preparation meeting opportunity.”
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
“Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.”
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
“The only way around is through.”
The best investment is in the tools of one’s own trade.”
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
“Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.”
“Have the end in mind and every day make sure you’re working towards it”
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make, you a fortune.”
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”
“Success likes yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”
“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
“Creative without strategy is called art. Creativity with strategy is called advertising.”
“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large”
“Poor people have a big TV. Rich people have big libraries.”
“Don’t be evil”
“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”
“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”
“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”
“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”
“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.”
“I may be over the top on this, but I just don’t want to be like my competitors. I want my people to believe that whenever he and our other competitors succeed, we will be less able to do all the things we want to do.”
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
“Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happens.”
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently…”
“Businesses absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
“You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”
“My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long university education that I never had—every day I’m learning something new.”
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t—you’re right.”
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
“As ever, the accountant in me saw the risk, the entrepreneur saw the possibility. So I split the difference and kept moving forward.”
“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.”
“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”
“A big business starts small.”
“You don’t build a business, you build people, and then people build the business.”
“Bringing great people onto your team is about demonstrating that size really doesn’t matter – people do.”
“Make something people want” includes making a company that people want to work for.”
“A small business is an amazing way to serve and leave an impact on the world you live in.”
“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
“Find a great mentor, someone who has already been through the many challenges of being an entrepreneur.”
“Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.”
“Spend the time upfront to invest in systems and processes to make long-term growth sustainable.”
“Help your team feel more connected to your company by incorporating the right digital technology tools into their workflow.”
“There is no finish line. There are only mile markers.”
“Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”
“If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.”
“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”
“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.”
“Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.”
“Do what you love and success will follow? Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.”
“Don’t worry about failure. You only have to be right once.”
“I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance too?”
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”
“We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.”
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
“It’s important that leaders are consistent. You can change your mind, but change your mind against a consistent framework.”
“You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.”
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
“Dedicate yourself to a core set of values. Without them, you will never be able to find personal fulfillment, and you will never be able to lead effectively.”
“Take risks. Failure is a stepping stone to success.”
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
“If you want to grow you have to do something different from the majority of people.”
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
“The road to success is always under construction.”
“If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.”
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
“Longevity is a fleeting moment that lasts forever.”
“When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.”
“Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.”
“In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.”
“Remain a lifelong student. Don’t lose that curiosity.”
“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”
“It always seems impossible, until it is done.”
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
“Our chief wants in life is someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him, we are easily great.”
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
“Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.”
“Remember why you started.”
“There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.”
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
“The Team! The Team! The Team!”
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena”
“You have to believe it before you see it.”
“Never underestimate the power of a t-shirt.”
“Be the change you wish to see in the World.”
“An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.”
“We all have things we must do that we don’t really care to do and things we must do that we don’t mind doing, then there’s the goofing off.”
“A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
“Don’t risk more than you can afford to lose!”
“Knowledge without action is meaningless”
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it.”
“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.”
“Life’s too short to learn from your own mistakes. So learn from others”
“Always deliver more than expected.”
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
“It is not the business of generals to shoot one another”
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”
“The golden rule for every businessman is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place.”
“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!”
“The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
“Life is too complicated not to be orderly.”
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.”
“Business opportunities are like buses: there’s always another one coming.”’
“Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.”
“There is no royal, flower-strewn path to Success. And if there is, I have not found it. For if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.”
“Business is more exciting than any game.”
“Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.”
“We are currently not planning on conquering the world. “
“A man should never neglect his family for business.”
“The only limits are, as always, those of vision. To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.”
“I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.”
“To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.”
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
“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
“The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.”
“The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything”. I say, “Only one man can do anything.”
“I feel that luck is a preparation meeting opportunity.”
“If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example.”
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations.”
“You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough, I can have it. It’s called perseverance.”
“The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
“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.”
“Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.”
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want to be done because he wants to do it.”
“If you did not look after today’s business, then you might as well forget about tomorrow.
“The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.”
“Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.”
“Being able to touch so many people through my businesses, and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.”
“Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
“The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.”
“To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.”
“To the degree, we’re not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.”
“Long-range planning works best in the short term.”
“You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.”
“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”
“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
“Starting and running your own business can be scary, challenging, and full of setbacks. It can also be rewarding, inspiring, and liberating.”

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