Dream Big: 75+ Small Business Quotes for Entrepreneurs

Business is tough and often leads to a lack of motivation and energy. 

We provide you quotes from top business leaders that will help you get back on track and give you a boost of motivation and energy to continue the grind and achieve your desired goals. 

Remember that you are the best!

Below you will find 79 quotes from the world’s top business leaders that will boost your confidence and energy for further action.

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Here are 79 Small Business Quotes:

1.  “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

2. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.” – Steve Jobs

3. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.” – Eric Thomas

4. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

5. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

6. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” – Mark Zuckerberg

7. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

8. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

9. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

10. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

11. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

12. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” – Guy Kawasaki

13. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

14. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery


15. “Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.” – Nancy Ortberg

16. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” – Scott Belsky

17. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

18. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean

19. “The only thing standing between you and your dream is the story you keep telling yourself that you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort

20. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” – Tony Hsieh

21. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” – Henry Ford

22. “The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.” – Brian Tracy

23. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

24. “If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.” – Ray Kroc

25. “The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!” – Unknown

26. “Your business is never really good or bad ‘out there.’ Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.” – Zig Ziglar

27. “Successful entrepreneurs are those who find ways to solve problems.” – Robert Kiyosaki

28. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” – Albert Schweitzer

29. “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George S. Patton

30. “Successful people are not afraid of failure.” – Michael Jordan

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31. “Success is not just about what you accomplish in your life, it’s about what you inspire others to do.” – Unknown

32. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson

33. “The best way to predict the future of your business is to create it yourself.”

34. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” – Ann Landers

35. “A goal properly set is halfway reached.” – Zig Ziglar

36. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer

37. “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right.” – Steve Jobs

38. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates

39. “Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient, and the persistent.” – Unknown

40. “Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.” – Seth Godin

41. “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.” – Steve Case

42. “Successful entrepreneurs know how to manage risk, seize opportunities, and make things happen.” – Unknown

43. “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions.” – Catherine Cook

44. “Successful entrepreneurs are not afraid of change. They embrace it.” – Unknown

45. “The best way to sell yourself is not to sell yourself, but to tell the truth.” – Ben Stein

46. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett

47. “If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to be misunderstood.” – Tim Ferriss

48. “The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.” – Sun Yat-sen

49. “A successful business does what it does better than anyone else.” – Richard Branson

50. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar

51. “The best time to start a business was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.” – Unknown

52. “The best way to grow your business is to never stop learning.” – Unknown

53. “Successful entrepreneurs are never satisfied with the status quo.” – Unknown

54. “Successful entrepreneurs are visionaries with a disregard for the impossible.” – Unknown

55. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

56. “The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller

57. “Success is not a destination, it’s a journey.” – Zig Ziglar

58. “If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.” – Unknown

59. “Successful entrepreneurs are those who take calculated risks.” – Unknown

60. “Hire character. Train skill.” – Peter Schutz

61. “If you want to be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way.” –Mike Gafka

62. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” –Robert Collier

63. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince LOMBARDI

64. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” –Ken Blanchard

65. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford

66. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

67. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

68. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” –Albert Einstein

69. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotles

70. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

71. “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” –Bruce Lee

72. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

73. “There is no shortcut to any place worth going.” –Beverly Sills

74. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” –Mahatma Gandhi

75. “A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at them.” – David Brinkley

76. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

77. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

78. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks

79. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin


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