Business Start-up QuotesBusiness start-up quotes in this collection apply to all types of businesses. Those of you interested in web or internet based businesses will get good coaching here.When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure. Mary Kay Ash If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. Tom Brokaw Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. Les Brown Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. Les Brown The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. Nolan Bushnell Make a little, sell a little, take small steps. 3M Corporation Creed How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist. Bill Drayton Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation. Peter F. Drucker Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. Peter F. Drucker Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation. Peter F. Drucker Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. Peter F. Drucker I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.... Thomas Alva Edison 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 Alva Edison The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.... Thomas Alva Edison When you're taking care of the customer, you can never do too much. And there is no wrong way…if it comes from the heart. Debbi Fields The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. Debbi Fields As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. Bill Gates This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. Bill Gates The entrepreneur is our visionary, the creator in each of us. We're born with that quality and it defines our lives as we respond to what we see, hear, feel, and experience. It is developed, nurtured, and given space to flourish or is squelched, thwarted, without air or stimulation, and dies. Michael Gerber There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own. J. Paul Getty The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation. Robert Iger Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve Jobs Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, 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 An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes. Victor Kiam Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. Victor Kiam If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish more. Brian Koslow The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have. Brian Koslow A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. Henry Kravis Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. Karl Marx A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. John C. Maxwell Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier. Paula Nelson The secret of business is to know something nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis Most new jobs won’t come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We’ve got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality. Ross Perot Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process. Tom Peters To me books on butterflies or baseball are more legitimate in terms of thinking about business strategy issues. Tom Peters The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato The cover-your-butt mentality of the workplace will get you only so far. The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business--but it's a whole lot more fun, don't you think? Bill Rancic I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world. Anita Roddick Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it's about trading: buying and selling. Anita Roddick Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what’s out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different. Jim Rohn The spirit of entrepreneurship includes imagination, inventiveness and openness to the new. This spirit of creative response aligns with the capacity to exercise moral imagination and to see ethical problems in a new light. To be sure, our most fundamental ethical values -- values such as honesty, avoiding doing harm, keeping commitments -- are grounded in timeless traditions and are not likely to be soon abandoned. But it is in the application of these ethical values to emerging, unique situations, where moral imagination and the entrepreneurial spirit can make a decisive difference. David Schmidt High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true. Robert H. Schuller If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. Robert H. Schuller Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. Robert H. Schuller What would you do if you knew you could not fail? Robert H. Schuller A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. Charles M. Schwab Entrepreneurship is the ability to create and build from a vision practically anything; fundamentally it is a human, creative act. Jeffry Timmons Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. Donald Trump 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 Capital isn’t scarce; vision is. Sam Walton High expectations are the key to everything. Sam Walton In order to be a success in business, there is one thing you must do. You cannot be successful without it. That is WORK. I have not told you anything new. Everyone knows that you cannot be successful in anything without work. Why does not everyone work? Because some lack the one thing that makes men want to work - ENTHUSIASM. That is something no one can give you. You must acquire it yourself, and the only way that you can become enthusiastic about anything is to have a thorough KNOWLEDGE of it. You have never seen an enthusiastic man who was lazy. Thomas J. Watson Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises form ongoing circles of exchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created. Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren’t there before. Margaret J. Wheatley I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out. Muhammad Yunus I'm encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun. Muhammad Yunus One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want. Zig Ziglar Return from Business Start-up Quotes and Starting a Business Sayings to Quotes Listed by Subject
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