Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. — Mark Zuckerberg
To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. — Aliko Dangote
Just start small with what you have and you can grow the business. — Folorunsho Alakija
People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth - and it's often propagated by venture capitalists. — Gurbaksh Chahal
One of the most common mistakes people make is massively underestimating the amount of money they need to start a business and get traction. — Cliff Lerner
When you create a business, you create something that improves the life of your customer, of another person, maybe of ten people, of a thousand people, of a million people. There's no higher calling. — Paul Zane Pilzer
Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge. — Michael Bloomberg
I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it. — Bill Rancic
Successful entrepreneurs don't wait for the perfect moment - they create it — Richard Branson
I didn't follow the policies of those already in the business. If I had, I would never have made a go of it. Instead, I started out with the determination to make a better nickel chocolate bar than any of my competitors made, and I did so. — Milton S. Hershey
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. — Epictetus
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
I followed someone who had very large shoes. He had very large shoes. Mr. J. R. D. Tata. He was a legend in the Indian business community. He had been at the helm of the Tata organization for 50 years. You were almost starting to think he was going to be there forever. — Ratan Tata
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. — Elon Musk
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World. — Will Rogers
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from. — Seth Godin
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. — Mark Zuckerberg
It's crazy that with an iPhone, a little Starlink antenna, and a solar power unit, you could live in an isolated cave in the mountains or on a raft in the middle of the Pacific and get a world-class education, start a business or art career, and make friends all around the world. — Tim Urban
Starting New Business Quotes
Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk. — Chris Hadfield
Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space. — Chris Hadfield
Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you. — Tony Hsieh
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly. — Peter Thiel
If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’. — Malcolm Gladwell
You might indeed be able to provide this money that people need to start a business, but can they run a business? This new consolidated agency [National Empowerment Fund] focuses on that matter of preparing people so that they can run business successfully. — Thabo Mbeki
Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.
Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle. — Beth Comstock
Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker. — Ann Bancroft
A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker. — Anne Bancroft
Building A Business Quotes
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. — Andrew Carnegie
Being a lifestyle entrepreneur is about building a business around your lifestyle rather than a lifestyle around your business. — Lewis Howes
Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.
To succeed in business, you must build a brand and never destroy it. One competitive advantage I had when I ventured into manufacturing was my brand “Dangote,” which I diligently built in the course of my trading commodities. — Aliko Dangote
From working in my mum's tiny chemist shop to my experience building large businesses, I have seen how we should support free enterprise and innovation to ensure Britain has a stronger future. — Rishi Sunak
The way to build a big business is to take care of people. — Tom Bilyeu
Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat the well enough so they don't want to.
I've said all along that we're building Axovant as a lasting company for the long run, not to hand over that upside to a pharma company in the future. — Vivek Ramaswamy
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals. — Rensis Likert
Sleep might be the most important aspect of building a great business and having a high-performing body. — Lewis Howes
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live. — Anne Sweeney
Running A Business Quotes
My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me. — Gary Vaynerchuk
To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route. — John Glenn
The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn. — Peter Hain
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
Two big lessons: 1: Never use a token you created as collateral. 2: Don't borrow if you run a crypto business. Don't use capital 'efficiently.' Have a large reserve. Binance has never used BNB for collateral, and we have never taken on debt. — Changpeng Zhao
You want a business so simple an idiot could run it. Then, run it better than an idiot. — Alex Hormozi
We can easily run a business with less, although to many people that seems counterintuitive. — Paul Jarvis
Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine. — Benjamin Graham
I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York Times,' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image. — Barbara Corcoran
I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park. — Billy Graham
If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your continued formal education and skills acquisition. — Strive Masiyiwa
New Business Quotes
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old — Peter Drucker
My friends keep telling me I'm doing it with Mary Palmer. That's not true - I'm too busy masturbating to meet anyone new. — Roddy Piper
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Either get busy living or get busy dying.
This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways. — Bill Gates
The war against Russia has been lost, it has been lost for months. People need to understand there was a deliberate coup. Americans working closely with the CIA systematically installed a new government composed of people that would do business with us. — Douglas Macgregor
Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business. — Ville Valo
More people would learn from their mistakes if they were not so busy denying them.
What’s kept me intrigued is that it is one of the few jobs where everyday you can study something new. You are constantly learning about new businesses, new situations, new management teams, new issues. So it’s infinitely challenging. — Bill Ackman
Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to a whole new place. — Jensen Huang
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. — Thomas A. Edison
For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now. — Janine Benyus
Growing Business Quotes
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. — Thomas Paine
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. — Leonardo da Vinci
There would be no hair growing business today had I not started it. — Madam C. J. Walker
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow. — Ralph Ellison
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. — Walt Disney
Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time. — Jamie Dimon
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses. — John Hickenlooper
Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business. — Jared Kushner
How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group. — John Harvey-Jones
I like money because I can hire more people and grow a business but not so I can increase my lifestyle, or whatever. — MrBeast
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late. — Reid Hoffman
I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business. — Steve Jobs
Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us. — Angelo Sotira
The best way of learning about anything is by doing. — Richard Branson
You can go as far as your mind lets you. — Mary Kay Ash
Let's face it, space is a risky business. I always considered every launch a barely controlled explosion. — Aaron Cohen
Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving. — Richard Branson
Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast. — Tony Hsieh
People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan. — Dave Ramsey
Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs can be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals can feel a sense of worth again. — Natalie Portman
We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel. — Howard Stern
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters. — Seth Godin
For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast. — Tony Hsieh
Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room. — Naveen Jain
To do business with a friend is difficult. The business itself is so stressful, so if you're havin' a bad day you can easily take it out on somebody, and then you takin' it out on somebody can easily turn into a blowup. It's weird, because you might really get to know a person by doin' business with them, then you probably decide you don't even wanna be around them, and that can really launch it off. — Bow Wow
Of course if you are launching a new business you can thinking about revenues, profits, and so on, but metrics such as customer satisfaction or employee retention might be meaningful if you are focusing more internally. — Scott D. Anthony
Now my mom designs to resign so she runs for US senate, and now at 67 my mom just launched a new company called Women's Leadership Live, she is the cofounder and CEO, and it's all about empowering women to be successful in business however they define success. When you have a role model like that you really don't ever look at gender as an issue and it's about owning your place and taking charge of your role, regardless of what you look like. — Stephanie McMahon
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When you're launching a business, you just really want to know somebody deeply to help in how you do it. — Alex Blumberg
(On soft launches) It allows you to test your assumptions and see which ones you got right, and more, importantly, which ones you got wrong. A big hard launch is expensive. Getting even one thing wrong can force you to go out of business. — Kevin O'Leary
Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not. — John Novak
So Merrill Lynch has launched its first campaign in years to advertise the accomplishments of its investment banking business. The ads feature things like Merrill's recapitalization of Sierra Pacific. I guess including "helping Enron achieve its earnings goals in 1999" might be a little awkward given that Merrill Lynch bankers are currently on trial in Houston for that "accomplishment." — Bethany McLean
Our government is committed to helping our young people develop the skills and training they need to succeed. Through our Summer Company program, students can launch a business, become employers, and gain an advantage in the highly competitive global economy - all while still in school. — Brad Duguid
When we launched If WeRanTheWorld, I said to my team, I want us to innovate in every aspect of how we design and operate this as a business venture, as much as the web platform itself - because I want us to design our own startup around the working lives that we would all like to live. Women and men alike. — Cindy Gallop
To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening. — Richard Branson
We're in the media business today. We're in the business of helping authors and publishers market their books to readers. And that's where we make our money. We sell book launch packages to authors and publishers and really help accelerate, build that early buzz that a book needs to succeed when it launches and accelerate that growth through ads on the site. — Otis Chandler
The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off the ground is just amazing. The ability to gain user feedback really quickly and adapt to what your consumers want is totally different with the web as it is now. But finding a new market, helping people and taking that original idea and turning it into a business is really exciting right now. — Matt Mickiewicz
It has taken more than a hundred scientists two years to find out how to make the product in question; I have been given thirty days to create its personality and plan its launching. If I do my job well, I shall contribute as much as the hundred scientists to the success of this product. — David Ogilvy
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