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 30+ small business quotes that contain meaningful and motivational lessons from some of the most successful and famous entrepreneurs.
Inspiring Quotes About Business Growth
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
– Lao Tzu
“Many companies get trapped by the paradox of hitting numbers ‘now’ versus improving sales for future quarters or years ahead.”
– Tiffani Bova
“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.”
– William Durant
“Employees want to feel inspired by their leaders…hire individuals who will lead by example.”
– Jody Kohner
“Happy employees lead to happy customers, which leads to more profits.”
– Vaughn Aust
“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 in space.”
– Chris Hadfield, astronaut
“It’s very easy to be different but very difficult to be better.”
– Jonathan Ive, Chief Design Officer, Apple
“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.”
– Thomas Watson, Sr., former CEO, IBM
“I do not know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.”
– Susan Butcher, sled dog racer
“If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.”
– Dhirubhai Ambani, founder, Reliance Industries
“The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.”
– Sergey Brin, co-founder, Google
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot, author
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
– Anaïs Nin, writer
“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer/statesman
“Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.”
– William George Jordan, writer/editor
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”
– Andy Rooney, journalist
‘Business not only business, it’s own freedom.”
– Suvodip Sarkar, Founder & CEO – Earning Shekho & Siksakul
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”
– Napoleon Hill, author
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
– John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States of America
“Every problem is a gift — without problems we would not grow.”
– Anthony Robbins, motivational speaker and writer
“Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation.”
– Clayton Christensen, economist and Harvard professor
“Becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”
– Michelle Obama
