Small Business Owners Quotes

Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top

It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears.

I like the way [Marcus Lemonis] thinks. He's made me think about things in a different way. He's made me want to support small businesses in a very real way, seeing what these small-business owners go through and the struggle it is and the courage it takes to put your heart and money behind things at a 24-hour job. I think I relate to that as an actress and a writer and someone who works freelance, in many ways. It never ends, you never clock out. You've always got to keep things moving.

You're a small business and you have to take care of yourself the way you would a small business and take care of yourself the way any small business owner would.

We'll be passing tax relief for small business owners and working families across the country.

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

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

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

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.

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.

There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

You're generally better off sticking with what you know.

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

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.

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

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

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.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

High expectations are the key to everything.

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

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

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

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.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

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.

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.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

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.

You can go as far as your mind lets you.

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

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