75+ Inspirational Small Business Quotes [2024]

Ankita Ghosh

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

75+ Inspirational Small Business Quotes [2024]

Starting and running a business is no easy task. Although this can be an incredibly fun and exciting time, you will also experience long days, feelings of doubt, and many challenges along the way.

Here is an interesting collection of 75+ Small Business Quotes that you may find helpful throughout your journey as an entrepreneur or business owner.

Inspirational Small Business Quotes

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. - Henry Ross Perot

If your business is not on the internet then your business will be out of business. - Bill Gates

If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. - Yogi Berra

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. - Bill Gates

A business absolutely devoted to service will have one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. - Henry Ford

Your Customer doesn’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. - Damon Richards

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others. - Hasidic Proverb

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. - Peter F. Drucker

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. - Mark Twain

There’s no luck in business. There’s an only drive, determination, and more drive. - Sophie Kinsella

All you have in business is your reputation – So it’s very important that you keep your work. - Richard Branson

An obstacle is often a stepped stone. - William Prescott

Everything starts with the customer. - Lou Gerstner

The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter F. Drucker

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein

The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. - Walt Disney

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. - Aristotle

You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple. - Adena Friedman

Know what your customer wants most and what your company does best. Focus on where those two meet. - Kevin Stirtz

Never ever give up! Constant effort is the key to success. - Xavier Davis

Study successful people and businesses, then do what they did to become successful while making slight modifications to fit your lifestyle, your values, your business model & your goals. - Clay Clark

First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare. - Walt Disney

Motivational Small Business Quotes

Every small business’s greatest assets are its customers.

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. - Charles F. Kettering

Don’t count the days, Make the days count. - Muhammad Ali

Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement. - James Cash Penny

By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail. - Benjamin Franklin

Don’t find fault. Find a remedy. - Henry Ford

You build on failure. Use it as a stepping stone and close the door on the past. Don’t try to forget the mistakes, but don’t dwell on them. - Johnny Cash

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions. - John Hancock

Don’t deliver a product, deliver an experience.

Never give up. Great things take time.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. - Frank Zappa

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be. - Napoleon Hill

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing; that’s why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business. - B.C. Forbes

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks. - Bill Gates

You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you’re asking for money. - Gary Vaynerchuk

Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you. - Margaret Thatcher

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field. - Dennis Waitley

What you do today can improve all your tomorrow. - Ralph Marston

I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation. - Bobby Knight

Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers. - Seth Godin

Great customer service is a critical competitive advantage for a business. - Steve Benson

I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson

I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying. - Jeff Bezos

What would you do if you weren’t afraid? - Sheryl Sandberg

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. - Steve Jobs

The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm. - Malcolm Forbes

There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team. - Jason Fried

You don’t build a business. You build people and people build the business. - Zig Ziglar

Best Small Business Quotes to Inspire Entrepreneurs

Small Business is the salt of life. - Voltaire

There are no working hours for owners. - James Cardinal Gibbons

Tough times never last, but tough people do. - Robert H. Schuller

Preparation doesn’t assure victory, it assures confidence. - Amit Kalantri

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. - C.S. Lewis

Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and success will naturally follow. - Oprah Winfrey

Life is what happens when you’re making other plans. - John Lennon

Never Give up. Today is hard and tomorrow will be worse, but the day after Tomorrow will be Sunshine. - Jack Ma

It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. - Scott Belsky

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. - Michael Korda

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the Axe. - Abraham Lincoln

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all. - Michael LeBoeuf

The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works. - Jeff Bezos

Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. - General George Patton Jr.

Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves. - Steve Jobs

Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they’ll come back. We have to be great every time or we’ll lose them. - Kevin Stirtz

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius

Action is the foundational key to all success. - Pablo Picasso

Great things in business are never done by one person. - Steve Jobs

If you aren’t first, you’re last. - Talladega Nights

Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once. - Drew Houston

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. - Bruce Lee

Opportunities don’t happen. You create them. - Chris Grosser

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. - Harold Geneen

Here is the simple but powerful rule always gives people more than they expect to get. - Nelson Boswell

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t. - Rikki Rogers

What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone. Know your customer and have a burning desire to succeed. - Dave Thomas

Setting Goal is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. - Tony Robbins

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. - Og Mandino

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. - Henry Ford

Luck is what you have leftover after you give 100%. - Langston Coleman

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Ankita Ghosh

I'm Ankita Ghosh and I am working with Starter Story as a content creator for more than a year. I write content around various business-related topics with the goal of helping small businesses launch and grow.

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