Top 100 Own Your Own Business Quotes
#1. I think you have to be when you own your own business. I'm looking at the new No Limit as being a legacy. It's incredible that we've been able to build this up and survive over ten years and we are doing the right thing by maintaining.
Master P
#4. A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else's.
Kathy McClary
#5. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.
Martha Stewart
#6. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.
Johnny Carson
#7. It's a good note for any young hopeful in this business to take: study up and make sure you are informed at all times because knowing how to anticipate someone's subtle nuances in a performance will only elevate your own art!
Tisha Campbell-Martin
#8. Age should never meddle with such a matter. Mind your own business.
Soseki Natsume
#9. Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.
Marc Maron
#10. To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business. Yet we have no other world to live in. And
Matt Haig
#11. You need to talk to Alden about your feelings for him, Race said.
"You don't know anything about it. Mind your own business, Race."
You love him. I know. I'm in here. I feel your soul, Rose.
Mary Lindsey
#12. It's not your business to decide if a woman you love should, or should not, marry you. It's her business. Tell her all about yourself and leave the decision to her. God knows it's trouble enough having to make one's own decisions in life without having to make other people's too.
Elizabeth Goudge
#13. I define leadership as: Emotionally, you own your business. You own it with passion. And you either have or you don't have an economic investment. But when you have all three of those, you are the boss from Day One, and you care every single day more than anyone.
Mickey Drexler
#14. Business runs hot and cold so the more you're in charge of your own destiny, the better off you are.
Bill Burr
#15. When you're invested in your own business, you're going to run it better. When people are financially responsible for whether their store succeeds, they're going to have that kind of entrepreneurial spirit that's harder to get if headquarters is running things.
Fred DeLuca
#16. The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you anyway.
Thomas Lennon
#18. Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
Dalton Trumbo
#19. Clean your home first before complaining about others.
Debasish Mridha
#20. It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.
Bryce Courtenay
#22. The sooner we realize that the world has changed, the sooner we can accept it and make something of what we've got. Whining isn't a scalable solution.
Seth Godin
#23. Why don't you mind your own fucking business?" I snapped. "If I want to take my sister to my place of business, that's my own damned business and not any of your business." Was I overusing the word business? Fuck it. "So mind your own business.
MaryJanice Davidson
#24. If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business.
Robert Kiyosaki
#25. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.
Maya Angelou
#26. As an entrepreneur you own your business, you expand your brand, you increase your impact, you live with no excuses, and you enjoy your intentional growth daily.
Farshad Asl
#27. Typically the person who raises the money, or puts up the money to start the business, owns the lion's share of the business. So learn how to sell and keep learning. It will usually be your own fear that you have to overcome.
Robert Kiyosaki
#28. Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.
James Arthur Ray
#29. My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.
Faith Ford
#30. Personal branding is about managing your name - even if you don't own a business - in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your "blind" date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto.
Tim Ferriss
#31. Be very clear about your own offerings so you know exactly what kind of client or customer you want to work with (and the ones you don't.)
Lisa A. Mininni
#32. Starting your own business and thinking about how you can grow something and fulfill both expectations and needs of your retailers and still stay exciting for the runway, you sort of become this left brain-right brain person pretty quickly.
Joseph Altuzarra
#33. I don't like the fashion world. It's too nasty, too rip-off, too hard. And now it's all Gucci and Prada; it's very difficult to make your own business.
Anita Pallenberg
#34. Everyone's for free markets except when it affects your own business.
Dave Brat
#35. The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Michael Korda
#36. Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Martha Washington
#37. Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility.
Robin S. Sharma
#38. I've learnt to realise my brother is my own best friend. He'd always stick his nose in even though I turned around and said "It's none of your business", I know he only wanted to look out for me.
Andrew Chan
#39. It is only when the mirror has not spoken to Chimpanzee in a plain language that it thinks it looks more better than the Gorilla
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#40. This business can be very frustrating but there is success story after success story of people who take the bull by the horns. Actors who are frustrated ... [should] do your own project. Find a writer, shoot a movie. It can be done,
Tony Shalhoub
#41. Max marvels that you can't tell at all from his voice how this type of thing
the casual prying, snooping and implications
royally pisses him off. He really should have gone into acting. It's a tragically wasted talent.
Lynn Kelling
#42. All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.
Howell Raines
#43. Work very very hard. This business is no joke. Make sure you know what you want or you might be taking someone else's view instead of your own.
Zoe Cassavetes
#45. Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, 'Oh yes, I'm hosting my own show.'
Andy Cohen
#46. There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.
J. Paul Getty
#47. If your business depends on you, you don't own a business - you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic!
Michael E. Gerber
#48. Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
Queen Latifah
#49. Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
Epictetus
#50. It's really important to find a humble approach to your own creative work, your own business work. To recognize that you can't do everything yourself.
Adrian Grenier
#51. Branding is not something that happens on its own. You must be actively engaged in your product, your employees and your business in order to see solid improvements in your results.
Online Business Buddy
#52. Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher; come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth.
Germany Kent
#53. To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.
J. Paul Getty
#54. Don't pursue business just for your own gain. Only answer the calls for help.
Derek Sivers
#55. Retailers must do a little bit of everything today. They need to wear many different hats - a business strategist, a store designer, a marketer, a merchandiser, a buyer, a financial wiz, a personnel officer, a coach, a trainer, and anything else that comes about when you run your own
James Dion
#56. Do you always mix business and pleasure?" She flashed her most alluring smile.
"Miss Stockton, when you own an inn, your business is pleasure.
J.M. Maxim
#57. Look at your own behaviors and ask yourself, "Would I want to be my friend???
Ted Rubin
#58. Serving as your own boss, and doing so successfully, consistently, day in and day out, takes an uncommon degree of slight edge integrity, and frankly many business owners just don't have it.
Jeff Olson
#59. While not as common as they used to be, entire groups of people with what seems like an infinite amount of time on their hands to be angry about something that doesn't even affect them in the slightest, still exist.
Lindsey Ouimet
#60. An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
Akio Morita
#61. Learn to bet on yourself and have confidence in your own decisions. No one knows your business better than you.
Leah Busque
#62. Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!
Kevin O'Leary
#63. Your personal life is now known as Facebook's data. Its CEO's personal life is now known as mind your own business.
Glenn Greenwald
#64. In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset.
Chris Guillebeau
#65. To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.
Brigham Young
#66. Even in good times we didn't socialize with most of our neighbors. Mom says when she was growing up she did, but so many of the old families have moved out and new people moved in and neighborliness has changed. Now being a good neighbor means minding your own business.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#67. Are you sure I can't mend a shirt or darn a sock for you in trade? Anything?"
"You can quit your yammerin' and carry this table downstairs so I can get back to minding my own business instead of messing around in yours.
Karen Witemeyer
#68. keep your breath to cool your porridge
Jane Austen
#69. The Future belongs to those who can spread ideas.
Guy Kawasaki
#70. Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
Anonymous
#72. I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands.
Martha Washington
#73. Stay in your car in your lane on your road in your world. Stay in your own lane. Don't be minding other people's spiritual business. Stay in your car. In your lane. On your road. In your world.
Iyanla Vanzant
#74. Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)
Robert A. Heinlein
#75. Mind your own business, you goddamn raisin with legs! Taran screamed from inside the house.
Cecy Robson
#76. But sometimes, minding your own business isn't the right thing to do. Sometimes, you need to confront the evil in the world. I tried to ignore that for too long and people got hurt.
Elizabeth Hunter
#77. I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.
Andy Grove
#78. If the store were your own business, you'd escort the customer to a product's location in the store and refer to the customer by name.
Steven Burd
#79. There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.
P. J. O'Rourke
#80. Mom: A doctor, Lily? AND your own business? I want to be you when I grow up.
Colleen Hoover
#81. Learn something that is valuable to others. Learn everything about it. Then maximize your earning from that knowledge. And then start your own business. That is what you have to do if you want to become very wealthy.
Porter Stansberry
#82. If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.
Bill Rancic
#83. Mind your business had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend.
Anita Diamant
#84. That's your business, isn't it, cousin? To make nothing your business. Even your own sons going to war. How I pleaded with you. But you buried your nose in those cursed books and let our sons go like they were a pair of haramis.
Khaled Hosseini
#85. If you can raise a family, then you can build a business.
Michael Port
#87. I'll take risk on what I do on my life . Just mind your own business .
Azlnrdzi
#89. The fans get to see you, and you can do great by your record if you have a great performance or a great night there. That's all part of the business. But at their core, awards shows are not really a sincere thing. For a lot of years, the artists had to pay to play their own set.
Jay-Z
#90. There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.
Robert Breault
#91. It turns out, to disrupt someone else's business, you have to add a net new line of business to your own portfolio. This
Geoffrey A. Moore
#92. When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future. Things go wrong all the time when you're running your own business, but it's how you perceive it and deal with it that matters.
Lori Greiner
#93. If you have a problem with someone you have to go after them, and it's not necessarily to teach that person a lesson, it's to teach all the people that are watching a lesson that you don't take crap, and if you do take crap, you're just not going to well
Donald Trump
#94. The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.
Jim Rohn
#95. Here we are, then, once more back at the old doctrine - Laissez faire. Let us translate it into blunt English, and it will read, Mind your own business. It is nothing but the doctrine of liberty. Let every man be happy in his own way.
William Graham Sumner
#96. The secret of the creative life is how to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We're all in the dirty laundry business and we're being paid to take risks and look silly. Race car drivers get paid to risk their lives in a more concrete way; we get paid to risk our lives in an emotional way.
Paul Schrader
#97. There are three proven rules for good teeth: brush after every meal; see your dentist twice a year; and mind your own business.
Henry Boyd
#98. From the country with limited hope to grow your own business and express your own personality, Russia has become the land of significant opportunity.
Roustam Tariko
#99. Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.
Richard Branson
#100. Create your own fears; choose to fear living an average life.
Ehab Atalla
