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.
Best Business Quotes in English 2024
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
– Mark Twain
If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.
– J. Paul Getty
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
– Andy Warhol
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
– Sam Walton
If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
– Elon Musk
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
– Theodore Isaac Rubin
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
– Colin Powell
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
– Max de Pree
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
– Jeff Bezos
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
– Dale Carnegie
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
– Thomas A. Edison
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
– Napoleon Hill
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
– Peter Drucker
Details create the big picture.
– Sanford I. Weill
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people.
– Mary Kay Ash
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
– Confucius
So little done, so much to do.
– Cecil Rhodes
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves.
– Herbert Hoover
Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.
– Robert H. Schuller
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
– Walter Scott
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
– Adam Smith
It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
– Will Rogers
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
– Winston Churchill
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
– Edward Gibbon
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
– Arnold H. Glasow
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
– Coco Chanel
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
– Gary Ryan Blair
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.
– Howard Aiken
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
– Henry Ford
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
– Khalil Gibran
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
– Aristotle Onassis
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
– Tom Peters
It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
– Elon Musk
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
– Thomas Jefferson
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
– W. Edwards Deming
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
– W. Edwards Deming
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
– Leo Rosten
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
– Andrew Carnegie
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.
– William Arthur Ward
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
– Andrew Carnegie
