If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.
— Madam C. J. Walker
Astounding Business Owner quotations
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big!
How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top
If you think you can't, you're right.
Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.
Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.
I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day.
This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.
If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.
To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis.
A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.
To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring to the Chief Executive Offficers. I am talking about the Customers, the Employees, the Owner (or stockholders), and the Suppliers.
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.
If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100 percent from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement.
A business owner can become rich exponentially and people who work for wages become rich incrementally.
The ability to sell is the number one skill in business.
If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.
To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.
Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics and that there are no easy shortcuts to success. Their companies need ethics carefully sewn into their fabric.
Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.
All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.
The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.
I grew up always admiring business owners.
I was always interested in knowing who pulled what strings. I've always been in love with the decision making process, not just the product.
Formal education will make you a living;
self-education will make you a fortune. A successful business owner never stops learning. They educate themselves on the things they need to learn, and they never stop growing. They never arrive at a certain point and think, ahhh... now I don't need to learn anymore.
Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses
We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.
The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.
Every successful business creates or provides something of value that other people want or need at a price they're willing to pay, in a way that satisfies the purchaser's needs and expectations and provides the business sufficient revenue to make it worthwhile for the owners to continue operation.
Building a business is like building a home.
If the foundation rests on an unstable setting or is constructed with subpar materials, it doesn't matter if the rest of the home is perfect. It will never be a joy to its owner
The Obama administration is not helping small businesses create jobs.
In fact, it is responsible for the regulatory uncertainty nearly 50 percent of small-business owners cite as responsible for their lack of hiring.
As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.
When employees unite, they form a union but when business owners unite, they form a team.
The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced.
If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.