Business Owners Quotes

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.

A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.

I was a small business owner, father, and husband just living out in the suburbs. I kind of had a boring life until Post Secret came and turned that upside down. I printed up 3000 self-addressed postcards and handed them out to people on the street, inviting them to write down a secret on that postcard anonymously and mail it to me. I got a lot of surprises.

It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

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.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.

The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.

I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.

The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.

High expectations are the key to everything.

A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And 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. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

We need to repeal and replace Dodd-Frank act. We need to make America fair again for all businesses, but especially those being run by small business owners.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off.

Senate Bill 1062 does not address a specific or present concern related to religious liberty in Arizona. I have not heard one example in Arizona where a business owner’s religious liberty has been violated. The bill was broadly worded - and could result in unintended and negative consequences. After weighing all the arguments I have vetoed Senate Bill 1062 moments ago.

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

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You can go as far as your mind lets you.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.