A hard thing about business is minding your own — Unknown
The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer. — J. Paul Getty
Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. — Naval Ravikant
Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets. — Robert Kiyosaki
Being a Company of One lets you control your own life and your job. — Paul Jarvis
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
If you are a company of one, your mind-set is to build your business around your life, not the other way around. — Paul Jarvis
If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job. — Michael Gerber
A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business. — James Cook
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. — B. C. Forbes
Just start small with what you have and you can grow the business. — Folorunsho Alakija
If you've got a business - you didn't build that. — Barack Obama
The only way you're going to make it in business is when everything is your fault, when everything is your responsibility. — Patrick Bet-David
Embrace accountability and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage. — Naval Ravikant
Short Own Business Quotes
We would rather have our employees running our business. — James Sinegal
Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else. — Alan Sugar
A Company of One is simply a business that questions growth. — Paul Jarvis
Drive your business, let not your business drive you. — Benjamin Franklin
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well. — Richard Branson
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. — Aristotle Onassis
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job. — Ted Turner
All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities. — Mahatma Gandhi
Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business. — Clara Barton
Top 10 Own Business Quotes
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay. — Maya Angelou
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big. — Andrew Carnegie
Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers. — Ibn Khaldun
My life, my choices, my mistakes, my lessons- NOT YOUR BUSINESS. — Wiz Khalifa
Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. — J. I. Packer
People still stereotype all day long. But if you forget your own age, you'll get so focused on the business that you become ultra-confident and people will forget to question how old you are. — Gurbaksh Chahal
If you mind your own business, you`ll stay busy all the time. — Hank Williams, Jr.
It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path. — Aleister Crowley
People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing. — Charlotte Lamb
Own Business Image Quotes
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
Do Your Own Business Quotes
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do. — Buddha
Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but go your own way. Where you are headed there are no trails, no paths, just your own instincts. — Sergio Bambaren
Mind your own business and don't eat junk food. Treat everyone the way you want to be treated, work hard and love what you do. — Besse Cooper
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
Let people do what they need to do to make them happy. Mind your own business, and do what you need to do to make you happy. — Leon Brown
To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own. — John Gray
Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.' — George Will
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
I think you have to be when you own your own business. I'm looking at the new No Limit as being a legacy. It's incredible that we've been able to build this up and survive over ten years and we are doing the right thing by maintaining. — Master P
I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy. — Rand Paul
I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business. — Johnny Carson
The fans get to see you, and you can do great by your record if you have a great performance or a great night there. That's all part of the business. But at their core, awards shows are not really a sincere thing. For a lot of years, the artists had to pay to play their own set. — Jay-Z
Owning Your Own Business Quotes
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours. — Epictetus
Your personal life is now known as Facebook’s data. Its CEO’s personal life is now known as mind your own business. — Glenn Greenwald
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live. — Anne Sweeney
Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.
Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own. — Isaac Mizrahi
Take business risks under your own name. — Naval Ravikant
Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great. — James C. Collins
Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.
Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down. — Michael Bloomberg
There will always be somebody more successful, more beautiful, more talented. You have to realize, you're not running their race. You're running your race. — Joel Osteen
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. — Bill Rancic
Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood. — Sean Parker
Starting Your Own Business Quotes
Typically the person who raises the money, or puts up the money to start the business, owns the lion's share of the business. So learn how to sell and keep learning. It will usually be your own fear that you have to overcome. — Robert Kiyosaki
Have you ever been tempted to start your own business? First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God. — Phil Vischer
Starting your own business and thinking about how you can grow something and fulfill both expectations and needs of your retailers and still stay exciting for the runway, you sort of become this left brain-right brain person pretty quickly. — Joseph Altuzarra
Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat the well enough so they don't want to.
Learn something that is valuable to others. Learn everything about it. Then maximize your earning from that knowledge. And then start your own business. That is what you have to do if you want to become very wealthy. — Porter Stansberry
There are two kinds of intelligence in this world. People who are Monopoly smart and people who are Trivial Pursuit smart... If you're starting your own business, don't even talk to me. But If you need to know who the lead singer of Kajagoogoo is, I'm your guy. His name is Limahl, by the way. — Christian Finnegan
There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration. — Richard Branson
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.
Success is like pumping an old well handle. You have to pump a very long time before you get water. But don't give up or you will have to start all over again. — Zig Ziglar
Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life. — Richard Branson
Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed. — Martha Stewart
In this particular business [cinema], you don't choose your own experiences. They start to happen and then they start to peel off and make other ones happen, and then you can start choosing. But it happens to you. — Kelli O'Hara
Make the most of your life instead of comparing it to everyone else's. — LeCrae
Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them — Robert Kiyosaki
Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust. — Howell Raines
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. — Albert Einstein
Either get busy living or get busy dying.
I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet. — Hugh Hefner
My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people's business alone. And let them think what they want. — Ray Charles
I don't know how people get so anti-something. Just mind your own business, take care of your own affairs, and don't worry about other people so much. — Betty White
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. — Paul Valery
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business. — William S. Burroughs
He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet. — Michelle Obama
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
What you think of me is none of my business. — Larry Winget
I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. — Mitch Hedberg
The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble. — Danny Lyon
More people would learn from their mistakes if they were not so busy denying them.
I'd be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I'd run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back. — Emo Philips
I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two. — Sayings
I'm grateful I've got my mind. I can take care of my own business. — John Morton
A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes. — David Duke
For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan. — John Shadegg
Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa. — T. Boone Pickens
Maybe it makes me old-fashioned, but investing to me is about owning great companies for many, many years. — Francois Rochon
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. — George Washington
As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves. — Laurie Helgoe
When you learn to love your own company, you become far more careful about whom you spend your time with. — Katrina Mayer
Every company should work hard to obsolete its own product line - before its competitors do. — Philip Kotler
No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company. — Edward Whitacre, Jr.
Companies not adjusting to this new reality — Larry Fink
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
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
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
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
Small Business Owner Quotes
How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top — Yvon Chouinard
If you think you can't, you're right. — Carol Bartz
Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure. — Donald Trump
Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard. — Caterina Fake
Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything. — William Rosenberg
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. — Kevin Systrom
Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you. — Tony Hsieh
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. — Mitch McConnell
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. — Sher Valenzuela
The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. — Zig Ziglar
I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground. — Madam C. J. Walker
My business is, with all my might to serve my own generation; in doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord Jesus tarry... The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping. — George Muller
We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all. — Pericles
Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival. — Dalai Lama
If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons — Strive Masiyiwa
One simply cannot start from zero. If you want to start your own business, save some money or know someone who can lend you some. You may not need a huge amount, but those first bills must be covered – and then some. When I began, business practice was based on CBD – Cash Before Delivery – not COD Cash On Delivery. The same holds true in many cases today. — Estee Lauder
The goal of the cobbler, Jughashvili continued, without mentioning his father, Beso, by name, was to accumulate capital and reopen his own business. But eventually, the “petit-bourgeois” cobbler realized he would never accumulate the capital and was in fact a proletarian. “A change in the consciousness of the cobbler,” Jughashvili concluded, “followed a change in his material circumstances. — Stephen Kotkin
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. — John Welch
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. — Henry Ford
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns. — Plato
Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand. — George Formby
The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens. — John Hancock
The railroad business is one of the great businesses of the world...first of all, they’re not going to build a new one right? If you own the second largest railroad in Canada...That’s Canadian Pacific. You know it’s an asset that was created 150 or 60 years ago...the replacement cost of the railroad is you know, hundreds of billions of dollars. — Bill Ackman
Entrepreneurs spend an inordinate amount of time inside of our own heads - thinking, analyzing, agonizing, and obsessing over every little detail of our business. Sometimes, we need a break from ourselves. — Lewis Howes
Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business. — Ronald Reagan
It is right that people and businesses retain as much of their own money as possible so that they have the freedom to innovate and invest in the future. — Liz Truss
That Islam you see on TV does not represent me, I'm too busy waging jihad against myself, My own nafs are my enemy. I'm sorry that Muslim and Muslim lands do not represent Islam, Our religion is perfect, but we on the other hand. — Boonaa Mohammed
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
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 will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business. — Eugene H. Peterson
It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business. — Ron Howard
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
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