33 Quotes For Small Business Owner that Will Motivate and Keep You Committed

Being a business owner or an entrepreneur is exciting but not an easy journey to take. Deciding to start a business alone requires enough courage and guts to establish it. Many face multiple trials as they continue to work on their own niche industry.

Especially during these economically difficult times, business owners and entrepreneurs need all the help and encouragement they can get to keep their business afloat and thriving. We are glad to offer that help through this compilation- to remind you that your hard work will pay off if you stay committed!

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1. "Risk is essential. There is no growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?"

-Alex Noble

2. "Don't worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow."

-Oprah Winfrey

3. "Make something people want” includes making a company that people want to work for."

-Sahil Lavingia

4. "If something is important enough, or you believe something is important enough, even if you are scared, you will keep going."

-Elon Musk

5. "Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't."

-Warren G. Tracy's student

6. "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."

-Mother Teresa

7. "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

-Robert Louis Stevenson

8. "Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."

-Lou Holtz

9. "Failure is just a resting place. It is an opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

-Henry Ford

10. "Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes."

-Dee Hock

11. "Spend the time upfront to invest in systems and processes to make long-term growth sustainable."

-Jeff Plat

12. "What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed."

-Dave Thomas

13. "Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down."

-Charles F. Kettering

14. "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

-Conrad Hilton

15. "If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

-Jim Rohn

16. "Here is the simple but powerful rule…always give people more than they expect to get."

-Nelson Boswell

17. "My best advice to entrepreneurs is this: forget about making mistakes, just do it."

-Ajaero Tony Martins

18. "Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself."

-Oprah Winfrey

19. "It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers’ shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship."

-Mark Cuban

20. "If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes."

-Andrew Carnegie

21. "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."

-David Brinkley

22. "One of the marks of successful people is they are action-oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk-oriented."

-Brian Tracy

23. "Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.”

-James Cash Penney

24. "Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me."

-Arianna Huffington

25. "How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities."

-Zig Ziglar

26. "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

-Vince Lombardi

27. "The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work."

-Oprah Winfrey

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

-Steve Jobs

29. "A business absolutely devoted to service will have one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large."

-Henry Ford

30. "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."

-Steve Jobs

31. "It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be."

-Richard Branson

32. "Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

-Albert Einstein

33. "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

-Charles Darwin

Don't Give Up Now When You're Almost There

We might never know what the future would exactly look like but one thing's for sure, it will not be the same as before. It is up to us, business owners and entrepreneurs, to adapt. Temporary setbacks have more to offer, they are opportunities for innovation.

Take the time to seek how you can improve your business' services, strategies, systems, and methods to adapt to the world's new normal. You can survive this is you stay motivated and committed!

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