Being a small business owner can be rewarding and stimulating, but it can also be very challenging. Whether you are at the point of getting ready to launch a startup or you are maintaining a successful business, there will always be times when you ask yourself if you should keep doing what you are doing. You can lose your motivation, so sometimes you need some inspirational words to keep you going. This Union Commercial Capital blog post offers 30 powerful quotes every small business owner should live by:
“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda
“There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” -Seth Godin
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” -Dwight Eisenhower
“The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.” –Roy L. Smith
“Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day.”–Gary Vaynerchuck
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”–Charles Darwin
“The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer’s place.”–Orison Swett Marden
“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.”–David Rockefeller
“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” -Confucius
“Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.” -Oprah Winfrey
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.” -William Edward Hickson
“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach. And it’ll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build.” -Steve Wozniak
“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” -John F. Kennedy
“Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.” -Stephen Hawking
“Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world. If you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it’s so easy to sell your product to the world.” –Kevin Systrom
“To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.” –Sir Richard Branson
“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”–Bob Parsons
“I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.”–Neil Armstrong
“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” –Carl Bard
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.” -Mark Twain
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” -Farrah Gray
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” -Steve Jobs
“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.” -Ray Kroc
“It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.”-Charlotte Whitton
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” -Muhammad Ali
“Before you start any business, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.” -Chanakya
“If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.” -Simon Sinek
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” -Aristotle
“The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.” -Tom Peters
“You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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