47 Business Quotes to Inspire Small Business Owners

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Use these business quotes to inspire your entrepreneurial self and motivate you to achieve your business and financial goals.

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Business Quotes

“Business is all about relationships, how well you build them determines how well they build your business.” – Brad Sugars

“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” – Denis Waitley

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

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“Creative risk-taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.” – Gary Ryan Blair

“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.” – Napoleon Hill

“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.” – Ellen DeGeneres

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“People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.” – Peter Drucker

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” – Paulo Coelho

“Make the choices that make you nervous. If you make the choice that’s the easy way out, that wasn’t the big vision or big choice to make.” – Eileen Burbidge

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.” – Michael LeBoeuf

“Entrepreneurs understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity.” – Victor Kiam

“Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.” – Thomas Dewar

“Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.” – Tom Peters

“Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.” – Orison Swett Mard

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationship.” – Henry Ross Perot

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

“Business has only two functions – marketing and Innovation.” – Peter Drucker

“There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination and more drive.” – Sophie Kinsella

“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.” – Zig Ziglar

“As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.” – Paul Hawken

“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Winston Churchill

“Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be.” – John Wooden

“A small business is an amazing way to serve and leave an impact on the world you live in.” – Nicole Snow

“Have the end in mind and every day make sure you’re working towards it.” – Ryan Allis

“If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail. It takes backbone to lead the life you want.” – Richard Yates

“Starting a successful business is not tricky. Starting a successful business does not require above-average intelligence. Starting a successful business does require having a pig-headed, purpose-driven tenacity about achieving your life goals and fulfilling your life’s vision through providing products and services that offer uncompromising quality in a scalable and duplicable way.” – Clay Clark

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

“If you look at history, innovation doesn’t come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.” – Steven Johnson

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson

“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.” – Ingvar Kamprad

“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” – Aristotle

“Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.” – Harvey Mackay

“Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.” – Seth Godin

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison

“There is no finish line. There are only mile markers.” – Michael Ventura

“I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars — I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over.” – Warren Buffett

“Without change, there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.” – William Pollard

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” – Nikos Kazantzakis

“The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It’s this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.” – Ginni Rometty

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision and relentlessly drive it to completion.” – Jack Welch

“You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.” – Steve Case