If you can run one business well, you can run any business well. — Richard Branson
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. — B. C. Forbes
You want a business so simple an idiot could run it. Then, run it better than an idiot. — Alex Hormozi
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. — Andy Warhol
It’s difficult to run a business and be so consumed with another passion. — Jim Simons
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
We can easily run a business with less, although to many people that seems counterintuitive. — Paul Jarvis
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. — Henry Luce
Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. — Mark Zuckerberg
All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities. — Mahatma Gandhi
Business is a combination of war and sport. — Andre Maurois
Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships. — H. Ross Perot
Drive your business, let not your business drive you. — Benjamin Franklin
Short Running A Business Quotes
We would rather have our employees running our business. — James Sinegal
If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job. — Michael Gerber
Being business minded requires you to always approach things with humility and respect. — Strive Masiyiwa
What helps people, helps business. — Leo Burnett
You either make business your lifestyle, or business becomes your lifestyle. — Isaac Mashman
Top 10 Running A Business Quotes
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
In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine. — Benjamin Graham
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
Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood. — Sean Parker
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market — E. F. Schumacher
To be an ethical leader is indeed to be different. This kind of leader acknowledges the complexity of running a responsible business, yet tries to do it anyway. — Andrew Leigh
I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business. — Suge Knight
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. — Arianna Huffington
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Running A Small Business Quotes
From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward. — John Pople
Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness. — Anthea Turner
I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business. — Andrew Mason
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
I kind of decided that doing music is enough because I'm already running a couple small businesses. I'm a part of Bikini Kill Records, Le Tigre Records, and Digitally Ruined Records. In dealing with my health and everything, my ability to do that? I wouldn't be good at it. — Kathleen Hanna
One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business. — David Ulevitch
If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends. — Glen Mazzara
One life. Just one. Why aren't we running like we are on fire towards our wildest dreams?
Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way. — Lori Gottlieb
Running A Successful Business Quotes
There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company. — Dave Ulrich
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
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
God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Don't run after them.
To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running, and if you have a good team around you and more than a fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can't guarantee it just by following someone else's formula. — Richard Branson
I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business. Remember many new businesses do not make it and running a business will be a tough experience, involving long hours and many hard decisions - it helps to have that passion to keep you going. — Richard Branson
Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business. And what that sends to my generation is, one day, you can just wake up and run for Senate, no matter how [much] lack of experience you have. — Meghan McCain
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
I think you have to humble yourself before the process of starting and running a business. Only the incredibly fortunate achieve their success quickly. Most people, it takes many many years of incredible hard work, and many periods of severe poverty, and it kind of makes it all the better. — Patrick Grant
I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk. — Lou Gerstner
I'm not running for office. I don't have to be politically correct. I don't have to be a nice person. Like I watch some of these weak-kneed politicians, it's disgusting. I don't have to be that way. — Donald Trump
I think it's a very shallow thought to think creative people can't do business. I am as proud of the fact that our magazine has a commercial success as I am that we're a critical success. I want people to realize that I'm very strategic in how I run Bazaar. — Glenda Bailey
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
Anyone can run away, it's super easy. Facing problems and working through them, that's what makes you strong.
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
Running from your problems is just adding another one to the list.
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
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
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
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
To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. — Aliko Dangote
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
The way to build a big business is to take care of people. — Tom Bilyeu
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
Launching A Business Quotes
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
Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.
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
Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up.
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
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
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
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
When we start a new venture, we base it on hard research and analysis. Typically, we review the industry and put ourselves in our customer's shoes to see what we could do better. — Richard Branson
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
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Succeeding In Business Quotes
The Power of WHO provides great lessons about how to succeed in business and in life. If you surround yourself with quality people and great friends, the sky's the limit. — Wayne Gretzky
If you think you can't, you're right. — Carol Bartz
I’ll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. — Matt Groening
The interesting thing is that there are so few important decisions. You don't have to go in the "right" direction. You don't have to enter the "right" business. What you have to do is have made a decision as to what you're going to do and then you just have to figure out how to succeed at it. — Ken Oshman
Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just ain't gonna go home. I decided early on that I wasn't going to go home. This is what I'll be doing until they put me in jail or in a coffin. — David Mamet
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business. — J. Paul Getty
To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting: There are lots of people! — Jim Rohn
At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business. — Susan Wojcicki
If you focus on what you want and you persevere, chances are you succeed. You know, that's what I found. It might not be in acting - it might be in business, financing, it might be in the arts, it might be in anything. But it's all about focusing and being inspired. — Cory Monteith
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.
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
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
Small Business Owner Quotes
How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top — Yvon Chouinard
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
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
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. — Gary Vaynerchuk
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. — Debbi Fields
There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair. — Ida Tarbell
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
There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it. — James A. Garfield
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
People are always asking me about the secrets and tricks I use to get results. Sorry if this disappoints you: There are no secrets. There are no tricks. If anything, it’s the opposite: Whether you’re a pro athlete or a guy running a business or driving a truck or going to school, it’s simple. Ask yourself where you are now, and where you want to be instead. Ask yourself what you’re willing to do to get there. Then make a plan to get there. Act on it. There are no shortcuts. — Tim Grover
In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it. — Hillary Clinton
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
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
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 want to be just a voice on the phone.
I have to get to know these guys face-to-face and develop a sincere relationship.
That way, if we run into problems in a deal, it doesn't get adversarial.
We trust each other and have the confidence we can work things out. — Wayne Huizenga
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. — Hunter S. Thompson
They said that the Negro had no initiative; that he was not a business man, but a laborer; that he had not the brain to engineer a corporation, to own and run ships; that he had no knowledge of navigation, therefore the proposition was impossible.
Oh! ye of little faith. The Eternal has happened. — Marcus Garvey
My biggest fear is that we [Unilever company] at one point in time will not be able to attract the best and brightest [workers]. I don't worry so much about the business, the strategy. If we can continue to attract the best, I know they will ultimately figure out how to run the company in a very tough environment. — Paul Polman
I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run. — Michael Weatherly
Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my competitor sitting at a desk in his opposition house, thinking and thinking with the most devilish intensity and clearness, and I ask myself what I can do to be prepared for his next brilliant move. — Harry Gordon Selfridge
People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are paid much more than they are worth. People who know nothing about medicine and nothing about economics unhesi. — Thomas Sowell
What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture. ...In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business. — Henry Mintzberg
When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine — Margaret Thatcher
If you've got a good enough business, if you have a monopoly newspaper, if you have a network television station - I'm talking of the past - you know, your idiot nephew could run it. And if you've got a really good business, it doesn't make any difference. — Warren Buffett
A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport. — Robert Kiyosaki
As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me. — Richard Branson
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it. — Peter Lynch
I still run into people in the business who skip over any other credits I have and say, 'I loved 'Hey, Dude!'' This was back in '88, '89, '90. It was a goofy show about kids working at a dude ranch in Arizona. We did 65 episodes; I wrote 13 of them. We didn't know what we were doing, but it was writers' boot camp. It was great. — Graham Yost
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. — Honore de Balzac
Here in Denver, we want to thank Jeremy Jacobs for the way he runs his business. Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten Ray Bourque and won a Stanley Cup. — Joe Sakic
Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business. — Chad Hurley
Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror. — Anita Roddick
The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan. — John Tesh
Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running, fitness, training, motorsports - is all about functionality, whereas the vocabulary of the luxury business - handbags, ready-to-wear - is all about the product. — Francois-Henri Pinault
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