Starting A Business Quotes

Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

With every obstacle that has happened to me in my life, my brain immediately says, ‘Where is the hidden blessing?’ In starting a business and growing a business, every day is learning how to manage obstacles.

The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.

So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.

You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

Don't take too much advice.

The research that Noam Wasserman has assembled here can help entrepreneurial companies who want to prepare well for their future. The Founder's Dilemmas is a must-read for anyone thinking about starting a business.

I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.

Bethann Hardison has been my collaborator, my closest friend, we've gone through starting businesses, losing businesses, kids, divorces, marriages, and she was my maid of honor when I married my husband, David Bowie. And she's still such a part of my life. This is the person when it's totally dark, outside and inside, this is the person I would call.

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.

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.

Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

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

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

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

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

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

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

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.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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.

Well, you know, I love being an entrepreneur and when I did 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Mr. Trump, he taught us a lot about starting businesses.

Doing something new and challenging. It can be anything from starting a business to playing a sport. Seeing a great concert, looking at extraordinary art, or being in nature. More than anything, it's my son's smile and love that makes me light up!

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

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

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.

Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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.

You can go as far as your mind lets you.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

If you can dream it, you can make it so.