100+ Small Business Quotes For Business Owners

It’s difficult to picture a future without alternatives for products or services. This will become our reality unless we support small enterprises.

The fact that most of these supportive small company statements are from anonymous sources adds to their validity. 

It implies that these small company quotes come from ordinary people like us – individuals who understand our everyday lives – rather than millionaires who have lost touch with reality and preach from glassy towers.

Why Motivational Quotes Are Important For Everyone? 

Many of us turn to motivational or inspiring quotes to keep us going when the going gets rough. Many of these pithy statements have become recognized parts of society’s lexicon.  

Everyone requires inspiration at some time in their lives to keep going forward.  Motivational quotes supply us with a fast and opportune burst of insight to refocus our attention and the motivation we require for the day or event. 

A phrase can often inspire for the week and motivate us when our typical motivation has waned. A quotation can remind us to focus on a certain goal or plan of action. ‘Keep things simple, dumb’ is an excellent example.

Also Read – Top 10 Quotes by Successful Business Leaders Around The World

100+ Inspirational Small Business Quotes For Business Owners

1. Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. -Guy Kawasaki, Alltop Co-founder 

2. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. -Bill Gates, Microsoft Co-founder 

3. We have a “strategic” plan its called doing things. -Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines Cofounder 

4. Make mistakes faster. -Andrew Grove, Intel Co-founder 

5. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. -Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman 

6. Stay hungry. And bootstrap. -Rob Kalin, Etsy Co-founder 

7. Learn early. Learn often. -Drew Houston, Dropbox Co-founder 

8. We are our choices. Build yourself a great story. -Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder 

9. Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.  – Ryan Freitas, About.com Co-founder 

10. The value of an idea lies in the use of it. – Thomas Edison, General Electric Co-founder 

11. It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. – Scott Belsky, Behance Co-founder 

12. We are currently not planning on conquering the world. – Sergey Brin, Google Co-founder 

13. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once. – Drew Houston, Dropbox Co-founder 

14. Chase the vision, not the money, the money will follow you. – Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO 

15. Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you. – Mark Cuban, Entrepreneur 

16. Get big quietly so you don’t tip off potential competitors. – Chris Dixon, Investor 

17. Doing a good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower is hard. – Paul Graham, YCombinator Co-founder 

18. An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create. – David Karp, Tumblr founder and CEO 

19. I don’t think an economic slump will hurt good ideas. – Rob Kalin, Etsy founder 

20. The best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch. – Michael Arrington, TechCrunch founder 

21. Every day we spent not improving our products was wasted. – Joel Spolsky, Stack Exchange CEO 

22. Stay self-funded as long as possible. – Garrett Camp, founder of StumbleUpon 

23. Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. – Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder 

24. The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something. – Seth Godin, Squidoo founder, author and blogger

25. When I’m old and dying, I plan to reflect on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘Wow, I sure felt safe. – Tom Preston-Werner, Github Co-founder  

26. Turn a perceived risk into an asset. – Aaron Patzer, Mint founder  

27. Anything that is measured and watched improves. – Bob Parsons, GoDaddy founder 

28. Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.” – Jason Calacanis, LAUNCH Ticker founder 

29. No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your skin – every day of the week. – Spencer Fry, CarbonMade Co-founder  

30. The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world. – Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO 

31. See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” – Larry Ellison, Oracle co-founder 

32. If your product is in beta, put your business model in beta. – Joe Kraus, Google Ventures partner 

33. You can’t make anything viral, but can make something good. – Peter Shankman, HARO founder

34. Doing something valuable is more effective than hoping a logo or name will say it for you. – Jason Cohen, Smart Bear Software founder 

35. Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever. – Noah Everett, Twitpic founder 

36. Ideas are commodities. Execution of them is not. – Michael Dell, Dell chairman and CEO 

37. Data beats emotions. – Sean Rad, Adly and Tinder founder  

38. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying. – Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO 

39. You don’t need a 100-person company to develop that idea. – Larry Page, Google co-founder 

40. A ‘startup’ is a company confused about 1. What its product is. 2. Who its customers are. 3. How to make money. – Dave McClure, 500 Startups co-founder 

41. If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late. – Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder  

42. All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA. -Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder

43. Before dreaming about the future or making plans, you must articulate what you already have going for you – as entrepreneurs do. -Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder 

44. No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy is, you’ll always lose out to a team if you’re playing a solo game. -Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder 

45. The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be. -Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder 

46. I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars — I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over. -Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO 

47. A vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination. -Steve Case, AOL co-founder 

48. Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you. -Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO 

49. Embrace what you don’t know, especially initially, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will be doing things differently from everybody else. – Sara Blakely,  SPANX founder

50. What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone. Know your customers and have a burning desire to succeed. – Dave Thomas, Founder, Wendy’s 

51. As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. – Donald Trump, The Trump Organization president 

52. Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you’re right. – Henry Ford, Ford Motor Company founder 

53. Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. – Bruce Levin 

54. Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes not to let my fears run me. – Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post Media Group president and EIC 

55. Risk more than others think is safe. Dreaming more than others think is practical. – Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO 

56. Diligence is the mother of good luck. – Benjamin Franklin 

57. 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, AOL co-founder

58. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney, Disney founder 

59. A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader. – Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures co-founder

60. We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.” – Pete Cashmore, Mashable founder and CEO 

61. I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term. – Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder 

62. Always deliver more than expected. – Larry Page, Google co-founder 

63. 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. – Mary Kay Ash, Mary Kay Cosmetics founder 

64. You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.” – Richard Branson, Virgin Group founder 

65. I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. – Bill Gates,  Microsoft co-founder

66. Even if you don’t have the perfect idea to begin with, you can likely adapt. – Victoria Ransom, Wildfire Interactive co-founder 

67. High expectations are the key to everything. – Sam Walton, Walmart founder 

68. Don’t take too much advice. Most people with a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they do. Don’t over-analyze everything.  I have been guilty of overthinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work. – Ben Silbermann, Pinterest founder 

69. You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done. – Russell Simmons, Def Jam founder  

70. You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down. – Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder 

71. Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities, and don’t let the bastards get you down. – Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg L.P. founder 

72. Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself. – Oprah Winfrey, Harpo Productions, OWN founder 

73. I resolved then that I would amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know. – Harland Sanders, KFC founder 

74. So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard. – Caterina Fake, Flickr co-founder 

75. Trust your instincts. – Estee Lauder, Estee Lauder founder 

76. There are lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world. -Phil Libin, Evernote CEO 

77. If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business. -Ray Kroc, McDonald’s founder 

78. Theory is splendid, but it is valueless until put into practice. – James Cash Penney, J.C. Penney founder

79. Sustaining a successful business is a hell of a lot of work, and staying hungry is half the battle. -Wendy Tan White, MoonFruit co-founder and CEO 

80. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder 

81. You’re probably in trouble if you define yourself by how you differ from the competition. – Omar Hamoui, AdMob co-founder 

82. Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. – Steve Jobs,  Apple Inc. co-founder, chairman and CEO 

83. 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, Facebook founder 

84. Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell. – Lisa Stone, BlogHer co-founder and CEO 

85. If you’re passionate about something and work hard, then I think you will succeed. – Pierre Omidyar, Ebay founder and chairman

86. Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for. – Kyle Bragger, Forrst founder 

87. When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue. – Josh James, Omniture CEO and co-founder  

88. An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something already existing. -Edwin Land, Polaroid co-founder 

89. 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. – Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media founder and CEO 

90. If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large. – Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO 

91. Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop. – Jeffrey Zeldman, A List Apart Publisher 

92. Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect. – Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder

93. Your work will 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. – Steve Jobs, Apple Inc. co-founder, chairman and CEO  

94. The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to think about what can be done better tomorrow every evening. – Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA founder 

95. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. -Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder 

96. Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that matters to me. -Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder 

97. When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. -Elon Musk, Tesla founder 

98. You should never take more than you give. -Elton John

99. That’s the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up. -Walt Disney 

100. If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. -James Cameron 

101. Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. -John Lennon

Conclusion

Motivational quotes will drive you on, providing you the much-needed impetus to confront anything life throws at you, no matter how young or old you are, your accomplishments and tribulations, where you are from, or what you are experiencing right now. 

Quotes are invaluable sources of knowledge and insight when they are most needed. They undoubtedly motivate at times of difficulties, challenges, and tribulations.