Being a business owner is a rewarding and hard experience. The correct advice can motivate and steer you through difficult times, regardless of your level of experience as an entrepreneur. These inspirational business sayings will inspire and rekindle your spirit of entrepreneurship.
Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
If you think it’s expensive to hire a talented employee, wait till you hire an untalented one.
If you can’t see yourself working with someone for life, don’t work with them for a day.
When you work on something, if you fall in love with it, that’s a good sign. If you do, others will.
Luck is not a business model.
Escape competition through authenticity.
To succeed in business you must learn the art of saying no.
We didn’t set out to build a product. We set out to solve a problem.
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
Surprise and delight your customers. There is nothing like that in business. If you delight your customers, you’re a long way home.
If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.
The quickest way to ruin the productivity of a small company is to have it adopt the practices of a large company.
There is no sport as competitive as business. It’s 24 by 7 by 365 by forever.
I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.— Peter Drucker
Search your parks in all your cities, you’ll find no statues of committees.— David Ogilvy
When you combine extreme focus and great teams, magic happens.— Sam Altman
The least effective people always seem to care the most about credentials.— Sam Altman
If you create it for yourself, it’s art. If you create it for others, it’s business.— Naval Ravikant
Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.— Drew Houston
You want to be world class at some narrow and important intersection, not decently good at a lot of things.— Sam Altman
We don’t do business with companies. We do business with people.— Simon Sinek
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think big. Start small.— Seth Godin
We don’t do unnecessary things at Berkshire. And there are many things at big companies that are unnecessary.— Warren Buffett
Always deliver more than expected.— Larry Page (Google)
In the business world, the rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield.— Warren Buffett
Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.— Brian Chesky (AirBnb)
There is no skill called “business.” Avoid business magazines and business classes.— Naval Ravikant
Screw it. Let’s do it.— Richard Branson (Virgin)
The companies that succeed are mistake fixing machines.— Brian Norgard
I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.
Sketch. Prototype. Build. Action over theory.— Brian Norgard
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.— Bill Gates
Product is king.— Jack Butcher
The best businesses are very personal.— Mark Cuban
We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.— Walt Disney
Progress is almost never linear. Ups and downs and bursts.— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Build something you yourself want” is to startups what “Write what you know” is to writing.— Paul Graham
A company becomes the people it hires, not the plan it makes.— Sam Altman
In a world where almost no one takes a truly long-term view, the market richly rewards those who do.— Sam Altman
Great products are personal.— Brian Norgard
The essential principle of business – of occupation in the world – is this: figure out some way in which you get paid for playing.— Alan Watts
When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.— Derek Sivers
Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.— Tony Hsieh
Serve, don’t lead.— Kobe Bryant
It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.— Scott Belsky
Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.— Clay Shirky
Choose your colleagues carefully; you will end up caring what they care about.— Sam Altman
Big results require big ambitions.— Heraclitus
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.— Michael Jordan
It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.— Jack Welch
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.— Mark Twain
Focus on what matters. Cut all the BS.— Sam Altman
No one person leaving a good company kills it, but sometimes one person staying can.— Sam Altman
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.— Ambrose Bierce
Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day.— Gary Vaynerchuk
Advertising is legalized lying.— H.G. Wells
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.— Henry Ford
Easy paths, crowded destinations.— Scott Belsky
You become whatever metric you choose to measure yourself by.— Brian Norgard
