Many businessmen and women call their businesses their “babies”. The amount of work that goes into starting a business, and then turning it into a profitable venture, can often seem overwhelming to new business owners. There is no short-track to success when setting up a business, as it requires hard work every day that you work on it. Here are 20 business quotes that will motivate you to put in that extra few hours to make your business a success.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.
I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
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.
Don’t expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen…
It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.
Watch, listen and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
