Motivational Quotes to Inspire Small Business Owners, Being a small business owner or entrepreneur is tough and challenging. Every day is a new day, a new challenge, a new adventure, a new opportunity. To deal with highs and lows, ups and downs of entrepreneurship, to keep your fire ignited and keep your passion going, you need motivation.
We have put together a list of more than 100 small business quotes that contain meaningful and motivational lessons from some of the most successful and famous entrepreneurs.
1. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
— Peter F. Drucker, Management Consultant, Educator, and Author
2. “Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.”
— Seth Godin, Writer and Business Visionary
3. “The Golden Rule for Every Business is this: Put Yourself in your Customer’s Place.”
— Orison Swett Marden, American Inspirational Author
4. “Never Give up. Today is hard and tomorrow will be Worse, but the day after Tomorrow will be Sunshine.”
— Jack Ma, Founder Alibaba Group
5. “If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.”
— B.C. Forbes, Financial Journalist and Author Forbes Magazine
6. “If you can dream it, you can do it.”
— Walt Disney, Entrepreneur, Animator, Voice actor and Film producer
7. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.”
— Chris Grosser, Photographer
8. “To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.”
— Aristotle Onassis, Greek Shipping Magnate
9. “Great things in business are never done by one person.”
— Steve Jobs, Founder Apple Inc.
10. “Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.”
— Seth Godin, Author & Former Dot Com Business Executive
11. “Patience: This is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.”
— J. Paul Getty, British American Petrol Industrialist
12. “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”
— Michael LeBoeuf, Business Author and Motivational Speaker
13. “There are no working hours for leaders.”
— James Cardinal Gibbons, American Prelate of the Catholic Church
14. “Make a Customer, Not a sale.”
— Katherine Barchetti, Owner of K. Barchetti Shops
15. “Capital isn’t scarce. Vision is.”
— Sam Walton, Walmart Founder
16. “To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.”
— Bill Gates, Founder Microsoft Corporation
17. “You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.”
— Dale Carnegie, Writer and Lecturer
18. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
— Walt Disney, Entrepreneur, Animator, Voice actor, and Film producer
19. “Satisfaction is a rating. Loyalty is a brand.”
— Shep Hyken, Author and Speaker
20. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
— Peter F. Drucker, Management Consultant, Educator, and Author
21. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr., American Author
22. “First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.”
— Walt Disney, Entrepreneur, Animator, Voice actor and Film producer
23. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Writer, Poet, Aristocrat and Journalist
24. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
— Steve Jobs, Apple Founder
25. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
— Margaret Thatcher, British Stateswoman, Former British Prime Minister
26. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”
— Scott Belsky, Entrepreneur, Author and Early-Stage Investor
27. “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”
— Jason Fried, Founder & CEO at Basecamp
28. “Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.”
— General George Patton Jr., General of the United States Army
29. “By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.”
— Benjamin Franklin, American polymath, Founding Fathers of the United States
30. “Make the customer the hero of your story.”
— Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer, Speaker and Author
31. “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.”
— Sam Walton, Founder of Walmart
31. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
— Mark Twain, American Writer, Publisher, and Lecturer
33. “Business is all about relationships, how well you build them determines how well they build your business.”
— Brad Sugars, Chairman and Founder ActionCOACH
34. “Customer service is an opportunity to exceed your customer’s expectations.”
— John Jantsch, Author Duct Tape Marketing, Speaker and Author
35. “It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.”
— Jeff Bezos, Founder, Chairman, CEO, and President of Amazon
36. “An obstacle is often a stepped stone.”
— William Prescott, Military Commander
37. “Business is the salt of life.”
— Voltaire, French writer, historian and philosopher
38. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
— Henry Ford, American Captain of Industry, Founder Ford Motor Assembly
39. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
— Sam Levenson, Humourist, Writer, Teacher, Television Host, and Journalist.
40. “Don’t deliver a product, deliver an experience.”
— Unknown
41. “Don’t count the days, Make the days count.”
— Muhammad Ali, Professional Boxer
42. “In order to succeed. We must first believe that we can.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer – Zorba the Greek.
