Quotes for Small Business Owners
5 quotes about teamwork
Consider these five quotes about teamwork:
- "Bringing great people onto your team is about demonstrating that size really doesn't matter—people do." — Jess Campbell
- "A big business starts small." — Richard Branson
- "You don't build a business. You build people, then people build the business." — Zig Ziglar
- "Help your team feel more connected to your company by incorporating the right digital technology into their workflow." — Andrea Meyer
- "You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea." — Larry Page
18 quotes about encouragement and motivation
- "A small business is an amazing way to serve and leave an impact on the world you live in." — Nicole Snow
- "What you can do today can improve all your tomorrows." — Ralph Marston
- "To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart." — Thomas Watson Sr.
- "There's no finish line. There are only mile markers." — Michael Ventura
- "Don't worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow." — Oprah Winfrey
- "The key to success isn't through achievement but through enthusiasm." — Malcolm Forbes
- "Preparation doesn't assure victory. It assures confidence." — Amit Kalantri
- "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." — Walt Disney
- "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." — Tony Robbins
- "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." — Thomas Jefferson
- "A business absolutely devoted to service will have one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly huge." — Henry Ford
- "If we did all the things we were capable of, we'd astound ourselves." — Thomas Edison
- "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." — Steve Jobs
- "A person who's quietly confident makes the best leader." — Fred Wilson
- "Believe you can and you're halfway there." — Tony Hsieh
- "The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your own terms." — Will Rogers
- "Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will." — Nelson Mandela
- "There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination and wonder." — Ronald Reagan
16 quotes with advice
Consider these 16 quotes that offer advice about managing a business:
- "Find a great mentor, someone who has already been through the many challenges of being an entrepreneur." — Jodi Levine
- "Here's the simple but powerful rule...always give people more than they expect to get." — Nelson Boswell
- "My best advice to entrepreneurs is this: forget about making mistakes, just do it." — Ajaero Tony Martins
- "Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I'll spend the first four sharpening the axe." — Abraham Lincoln
- "The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well." — John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- "I don't believe in luck. I believe in preparation." — Bobby Knight
- "Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen." — Wayne Huizenga
- "Spend time upfront to invest in systems and processes to make long-term growth sustainable." — Jeff Platt
- "'Make something people want' includes making a company that people want to work for." — Sahil Lavingia
- "Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision and relentlessly drive it to completion." — Jack Welch
- "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." — Bill Gates
- "Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you." — Tony Hsieh
- "Your value will be not what you know. It'll be what you share." — Ginni Rometty
- "Listen to your customers deeply, or you'll have none." — Bryan Clayton
- "Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value." — Albert Einstein
- "Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field." — Dennis Waitley
12 quotes about failure and risk
Here are 12 quotes that discuss risk-taking and failure when operating a business:
- "Failure is not to be feared. It's from failure that most growth comes." — Dee Hock
- "Don't worry about failure. You only have to be right once." — Drew Houston
- "Most great people have attained their greatest successes just one step beyond their greatest failure." — Napoleon Hill
- "Success isn't final. Failure isn't fatal. It's the courage to continue that counts." — Winston Churchill
- "Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed. Pay the price and it's yours." — Orison Swett Marden
- "I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." — Thomas Edison
- "Whether you think you can or you think you can't—you're right." — Henry Ford
- "Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical." — Howard Schultz
- "Failure is success if we learn from it." — Malcolm Forbes
- "What would you do if you weren't afraid?" — Sheryl Sandberg
- "Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience." — Paulo Coelho
- "The biggest risk is not taking any risk." — Mark Zuckerberg

