36 Quotes on Starting a Business

from Entre TV 01/15 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz

Steering the Entrepreneur ship can be a lonely journey. The road to business success, both on & offline, is a long & bumpy one, often littered with potholes. You need to be willing to spend long hours learning & applying new info, when you’d rather be spending time having fun with family & friends. It can take several attempts and wrong turns before you hit on the right business model – that also fits into your lifestyle. The truth is, once you decide to leave the safety net of your day job to build your own business, you are stepping onto a crazy roller-coaster ride. Amongst all the fun and excitement of being your own boss, there will be days when you feel scared, alone & confused. Deals you were counting on, fall through. People you thought you could trust let you down. Products you thought would be home-runs, are strike-outs. During tough times like these, there isn’t much you can do, other than keep the faith and keep going. I’m a great believer that being in business involves mastering the inner game of self and the outer game of business. That’s why I am such a fan of motivational & inspirational quotes. They keep me focused & positive, even when things are not going to plan.
1. Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. ~ John Wayne
2. If you don’t make things happen then things will happen to you. ~ Elon Musk
3. It has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. ~ Richard Branson
4. Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. ~ Henry J. Kaiser (Oakland Industrialist)
5. Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ~ Vince Lombardi, NFL Coach
6. You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, & expect to win. ~ Zig Ziglar, Motivation Spkr
7. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. ~ Napoleon Hill, Motivation Author
8. To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. ~ Thomas Watson, Sr, IBM
9. Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~ Churchill
10. To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, some-thing to inspire you. ~ Tony Dorsett, NFL Back
11. Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ~ John Wooden, UCLA Coach
12. You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough, I can have it. It’s called perseverance. ~ Lee Iacocca, xCEO Chrysler
13. Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it. ~ Wm Durant, Auto Pioneer
14. Success requires training & discipline + hard work. If you’re not intimidated, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. ~ David Rockefeller, $B
15. Success is liking yourself, what you do, & how you do it. ~ Maya Angelou, Spkr
16. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. ~ Confucius
18. Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take big chances; go for broke. ~ E.Musk
19. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~ Bruce Lee, Actor
20. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ~ Steve Jobs
21. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope & confidence. ~ Helen Keller
22. Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal 2nd & keep your foot on 1st. ~ Player
23. Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. ~Henry Ford
24. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do, than by the ones you did do. ~ Mark Twain
25. The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is that little extra. ~ NFL Coach
26. It’s not, “How busy are you?” but “What are you busy at?” ~ Oprah Winfrey
27. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~ Beverly Sills, Opera Singer
28. Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in & day out. ~ Serge Brin
29. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~ Thomas Edison
30. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~ Swami
31. When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. ~ Audre Lorde, Poet
32. Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. ~ “Rich Dad”
33. If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. ~ Ray Kroc, McDonalds
34. The important thing is 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, Cookies
35. Capital isn’t scarce; vision is. ~ Sam Walton, Walton
36. If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it – teach yourself to be impatient. ~ Henry Ford

What are Your Thoughts? Which one is your favorite? Do you know of any other good motivational business quotes you’d like to share?