Best 100+ Small Business Quotes For Motivation

Small Business Quotes | Small businesses are the backbone of our economy and they provide essential services and products to millions of people. Here are some quotes from small business owners that will inspire you to keep going despite the tough times.

Small business quotes to help you get through the tough times.

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”

– Peter F. Drucker

“Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.”

– Seth Godin

“The Golden Rule for Every Business is this: Put Yourself in your Customer’s Place.”

– Orison Swett Marden

“Never Give up. Today is hard and tomorrow will be Worse, but the day after Tomorrow will be Sunshine.”

– Jack Ma

“If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.”

– B.C. Forbes

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

– Walt Disney

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.”

– Chris Grosser

“To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.”

– Aristotle Onassis

“Great things in business are never done by one person.”

– Steve Jobs

“Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.”

– Seth Godin

“Patience: This is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.”

– J. Paul Getty

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

– Michael LeBoeuf

“There are no working hours for leaders.”

– James Cardinal Gibbons

“Make a Customer, Not a sale.”

– Katherine Barchetti

“Capital isn’t scarce. Vision is.”

– Sam Walton

“To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.”

– Bill Gates

“You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.”

— Dale Carnegie

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

— Walt Disney

“Satisfaction is a rating. Loyalty is a brand.”

— Shep Hyken

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

— Peter F. Drucker

“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”

— H. Jackson Brown

“First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.”

— Walt Disney

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

— Antoine De Saint-Exupery

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

— Steve Jobs

“Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

— Scott Belsky

“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”

— Jason Fried

“Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.”

— General George Patton Jr.

“By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Make the customer the hero of your story.”

— Ann Handley

“The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.”

— Sam Walton

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

— Mark Twain

“Business is all about relationships, how well you build them determines how well they build your business.”

— Brad Sugars

“Customer service is an opportunity to exceed your customer’s expectations.”

— John Jantsch

“It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.”

— Jeff Bezos

“An obstacle is often a stepped stone.”

— William Prescott

“Business is the salt of life.”

— Voltaire

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

— Henry Ford

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”

— Sam Levenson

“Don’t deliver a product, deliver an experience.”

— Unknown

“Don’t count the days, Make the days count.”

— Muhammad Ali

“In order to succeed. We must first believe that we can.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“The biggest mistake a small business can make is to think like a small business.”

— Aruna Bhayana

“Setting Goal is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

— Tony Robbins

“Don’t give up, the beginning is always the hardest.”

— Kemmy Nola

“Small opportunities are often beginning of great achievements.”

– Demosthenes

“To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.”

— Thomas J. Watson

“A winner never stops trying.”

— Tom Landry

“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

— Bill Gates

“You must not only aim right but draw the bow with all your might.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

— Steve Jobs

“Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, Do what is great while it is small.”

— Sun Tzu

“The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.”

— James Cash Penney

“If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.”

— Jeff Bezos

“The heart and soul of a company is creativity and innovation.”

– Robert Iger

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

— John D. Rockefeller

“Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.”

— James Cash Penny

“Know what your customer want most and what your company does best. Focus on where those two meet.”

— Kevin Stirtz

“The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary.”

— Sam Walton

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

— Robert H. Schuller

“Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.”

— Steve Jobs

“The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.”

— Jeff Bezos

“Every company’s greatest assets are its customers because without customers there is no company.”

— Michael LeBoeuf

“Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they’ll come back. We have to be great every time or we’ll lose them.”

— Kevin Stirtz

“Customers may forget what you said but they’ll never forget how you made them feel.”

— Anonymous

“Everything starts with the customer.”

— Lou Gerstner

“Customer don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.”

— Donald Porter

“Great customer service is a critical competitive advantage for a business.”

— Steve Benson

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”

— Lao Tzu

“Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.”

— Henry Ford

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

— Helen Keller

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

— Albert Einstein

“Always give your best effort even when the odds are against you.”

— Arnold Palmer

“If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.”

— Bob Hooey

“When you serve the customer better, they always return on your investment.”

— Arnold Palmer

“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.”

— Michael Korda

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

— OG Mandino

“Never ever give up! Constant effort is the key to success.”

— Xavier Davis

“The most successful entrepreneurs I know are optimistic. It’s part of the job description.”

― Caterina Fake

“If we did all the things we were capable of, we would astound ourselves”

– Thomas Edison

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do”

– Steve Jobs

“If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”

– Mark Zuckerberg

“Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”

– Mark Pincus

“Work 9-to-5, spend a couple of hours with your family, 7 to 2am is plenty of time to do damage.”

– Gary Vaynerchuk

“You don’t need to have a 100–person company to develop that idea.”

– Larry Page

“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”

– Josh James

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

– Tony Hsieh

“Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”

– Wayne Huizenga

“A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.”

– Fred Wilson

“Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”

– Robert Collier

“Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

– Biz Stone

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

– Bill Gates

“Listen to your customers deeply, or you will have none.”

– Bryan Clayton

“If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell six friends. If you make customers unhappy on the internet, they can each tell 6,000.”

– Jeff Bezos

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

– Drew Houston

“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

– Bill Gates

“Failure is success if we learn from it.”

– Malcolm Forbes

“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”

– Winston Churchill

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”

– Michael Jordan

“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”

– Tony Hsieh

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

– John D. Rockefeller

“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.”

– Meg Whitman

“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”

– David Karp

“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”

– Jason Fried

“The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.”

– Marc Benioff

“It can be challenging to start over but it can also be a great opportunity to do things differently.”

– Unknown

“When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.”

– Donovan’s Echo

“One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.”

– Unknown

“Time flies, people change. You’re not always needed. There are times to move forward and places to let go.”

– Unknown

“Life is all about accepting difficult challenges and working and keep moving to win them.”

– Unknown

“One of the best feelings is finally losing attachment to somebody that isn’t good for you.”

– Unknown

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”

– Walt Whitman

“If you spend too long holding on to the one who treats you like an option, you’ll miss finding the one who treats you like a priority.”

– Unknown

“Be attentive, set your dreams, and keep moving towards them to become successful.”

– Unknown

“Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.”

– Unknown

“Just keep moving forward & don’t give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you”

– Johnny Depp

“Every time, life brings new difficulties for us. We need to find new doors and keep moving to get out of those difficulties.”

– Unknown

“Don’t give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don’t listen to them.”

– Sidney Sheldon

“If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

“Life is not about how hard you can hit, but how much you can get hit & still keep moving forward.”

– Rocky Balboa

“God wants to test you with difficulties. It depends on you if you want to keep moving in life or just give up like a coward.”

– Unknown

“Change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

– Unknown

“Every entrepreneur faced difficulties and so will you. It totally depends on you, if you give up like a coward or keep moving like entrepreneurs.”

– Unknown

“Whatever happens, just keep moving forward. It is a bad day, not a bad life.”

– Unknown

“Difficult challenges, bad days, moments of confusion- these things happen to keep us alert, make us stronger, to keep us moving forward.”

– Unknown

“Fail early, fail often, fail forward has to be one of my favorite quotes. I’ve failed in a lot of aspects, but I’ve never ever felt sorry for myself. Always learn and always keep moving forward.”

– Unknown

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”

– Abraham Lincoln

“Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.”

– Alan Alda

“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”

– Marcus Aurelius

“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”

– Saint Augustine

“Never apologize for opening up or expressing yourself sincerely.”

– Unknown

“Whatever you’re facing today, keep going. Keep moving, Keep hoping, Keep pressing on. There is a victory on the other side!.”

– Unknown

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

– Walt Disney

“Challenges are like speed-breakers on the road. They will try to stop you. But you should never stop and keep moving forward.”

– Unknown

“In the race of life, many people will push you down. No one will come to help you in rising up again. You must rise up by yourself and keep moving so that you can win the race of your life.”

– Unknown

“Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

– Conrad Hilton

“A good leader takes care of those in their charge. A bad leader takes charge of those in their care.”

– Unknown

“The bigger your obstacle, the bigger your future. Don’t get discouraged, keep moving forward.”

– Unknown

“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”

– Roy T. Bennett

“The most important thing any broken individual can do is keep their chin up and keep moving forward.”

– Unknown

“Forget your weaknesses, increase your strengths, and be the most awesome you, that you can be.” – Tim Fargo

“Don’t dare to stop while moving in life or be ready to be called a loser.”

– Unknown

“Sometimes the memories are what keep us from moving on.”

– Unknown

“I’ve never seen a problem that was solved by only complaining about it.”

– Unknown

“The key to the door of a successful life is to keep moving. Keep moving through difficulties and problems to open the door to success.”

– Unknown

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”

– Duke Ellington

“In order to be able to achieve something big in life. You need to focus and keep moving in life.”

– Unknown

“If you make a mistake, no matter what, then correct your mistake and continue to move forward.”

– Unknown

“Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.”

– Anderson Silva

“You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.”

– Conrad Hall

“There are things ahead far, far better than any we leave behind.”

– Unknown

“Never surrender. When your heart gets tired, just walk along with your legs-but move forward.”

– Unknown

“You ‘re not really free until you have been free to try to please everyone.”

– Unknown

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”

– Albert Einstein

“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”

– Steve Maraboli

“The truth is, unless you let go unless you forgive yourself unless you forgive the situation unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”

– Steve Maraboli

“You can meet someone who’s just right, but he might not be meant for you. You break up, you lose things, you never feel the same again. But maybe you should stop questioning why. Maybe you should just accept it and move on.”

– Winna Efendi

“I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward.”

– Fridtjof Nansen

“A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”

– Jodi Picoult

“Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.”

– Tom Peters

“Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be.”

– John Wooden

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”

– Ken Robinson

“If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail. It takes backbone to lead the life you want.”

– Richard Yates

“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”

– Denis Waitley

“People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”

– Peter Drucker

“Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.”

– Harvey Mackay

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

– Winston Churchill

“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”

– Robert T. Kiyosaki

“It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”

– Zig Ziglar

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

– Drew Houston

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

– Thomas Edison

“If you can’t fly then run if you can’t run then walk if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”

– Winston Churchill

“I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars — I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”

– Warren Buffett

“There is no finish line. There are only mile markers.”

– Michael Ventura

“Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.”

– Zig Ziglar

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

– Henry Ford

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”

– Newt Gingrich

“Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.”

– Orison Swett Mard

“Without change, there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.”

– William Pollard

“The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It’s this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.”

– Ginni Rometty

“If you look at history, innovation doesn’t come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.”

– Steven Johnson

“Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.”

– Thomas Dewar

“It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”

– Paulo Coelho

“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”

– Ellen DeGeneres

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.”

– Mark Zuckerberg

“Make the choices that make you nervous. If you make the choice that’s the easy way out, that wasn’t the big vision or big choice to make.”

– Eileen Burbidge

“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.”

– Steve Case

“Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.”

– Jimmy Carter

“Creative risk-taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.”

– Gary Ryan Blair

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”

– Jim Rohn

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

– John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”

– Nikos Kazantzakis

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

– Conrad Hilton

“Have the end in mind and every day make sure you’re working towards it.”

– Ryan Allis

“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”

– Ingvar Kamprad

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

– Napoleon Hill

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

– Jack Welch

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

– Bruce Lee

“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”

– Napoleon Hill

“Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.”

– Oprah Winfrey

“Starting a successful business is not tricky. Starting a successful business does not require above-average intelligence. Starting a successful business does require having a pig-headed, purpose-driven tenacity about achieving your life goals and fulfilling your life’s vision through providing products and services that offer uncompromising quality in a scalable and duplicable way.”

– Clay Clark

“A small business is an amazing way to serve and leave an impact on the world you live in.”

– Nicole Snow

“Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationship.”

– Henry Ross Perot

“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

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” –

Jack Welch

“You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”

— Adena Friedman

“Business has only two functions – marketing and Innovation.”

— Peter Drucker

“Business is all about relationships, how well you build them determines how well they build your business.”

— Brad Sugars

“There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination and more drive.”

— Sophie Kinsella

“Entrepreneurs understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity.”

— Victor Kiam

“Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.”

— Seth Godin

“As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.”

— Paul Hawken

“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”

— Aristotle

“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”

– H. Jackson Brown

“The biggest mistake a small business can make is to think like a small business.”

– Aruna Bhayana

“Don’t count the days. Make the days count.”

– Muhammad Ali

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

– Steve Jobs

“The heart and soul of a company is creativity and innovation.”

– Robert Iger

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

– Mark Twain

“The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary.”

– Sam Walton

“Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.”

– Steve Jobs

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”

– Lao Tzu

“Great customer service is a critical competitive advantage for a business.”

– Steve Benson

“Always give your best effort even when the odds are against you.”

– Arnold Palmer

Never ever give up! Constant effort is the key to success.”

– Xavier Davis

“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”

– Ralph Marston

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”

– C.S. Lewis

“The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.”

– Hasidic Proverb

“I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have.”

– Thomas Jefferson

“The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.”

– Roy L. Smith

“A small business is an amazing way to serve and leave an impact on the world you live in.”

– Nicole Snow

“The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.”

– John Hancock

“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”

– Bill Phillips

“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”

– Rikki Rogers

“Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy. Do what is great while it is small.”

– Sun Tzu

“An obstacle is often a stepping stone.”

– William Prescott

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

– Scott Belsky

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

– Walt Disney

“To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.”

– Aristotle Onassis

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

– Drew Houston

“Make the customer the hero of your story.”

– Ann Handley

“Patience: This is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.”

– J. Paul Getty

“Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.”

– Oprah Winfrey

“Make a customer, not a sale.”

– Katherine Barchetti

“Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they’ll come back. We have to be great every time or we’ll lose them.”

– Kevin Stirtz

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: The fear of failure.”

– Paulo Coelho

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, and we need to do everything we can to support them.

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