Quotes About Starting Your Business

#1. The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that ... don't miss it.

Barbara Corcoran

#2. If you've never given a speech before, do you want your first speech to be in front of ten thousand people or ten people? You don't want everyone to watch you starting your business. It makes no sense to tell everyone to look at you if you're not ready to be looked at yet.

Jason Fried

#3. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Irving Berlin

#4. America has been very open to immigrants in terms of laws, getting loans - it has been helping immigrants more than it's been helping African Americans in starting a small business. That's key, whether you're starting a restaurant or a laundromat.

Marcus Samuelsson

#5. Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product.

Manoj Bhargava

#6. Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

Jack Dorsey

#7. If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you earn the money in the private sector by starting a business and hiring a lot of people, that's when you become the enemy.

Rush Limbaugh

#8. Heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business ... Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over.

Michael Martin Hammer

#9. Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.

Tony Hsieh

#10. There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration.

Richard Branson

#11. The only type Carrick has is pretty with a vagina that's open for business. But now, I'm starting to think that maybe now he has just one type - Andi Amaro.

Samantha Towle

#12. To be honest, I've always made films and I never really stopped, starting with little stop-motion experiments using my dad's Super 8 camera. In my mind, it's all one big continuum of filmmaking and I've never changed.

Christopher J. Nolan

#13. I wasn't that interested in the dollars-and-cents part of business. My interest in starting Mary Kay Inc. was to offer women opportunities that didn't exist anywhere else.

Mary Kay Ash

#14. We often equate a new beginning or fresh start to moving to a new area, changing jobs, starting a new business or entering a new relationship. While this is true, there is also the possibility that God wants to bring newness to you right where you are.

Jamie Larbi

#15. When starting a new business, people get blinders on. They have an idea, they stick to the idea, but they don't test it or check with their potential audience to see if this is a good idea. It happens all the time. Talk to your customers, see what they like and what you can change or not change.

JJ Ramberg

#16. I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point.

Shiri Appleby

#17. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors. It is a key not only to starting a business but also to clarifying your own personal identity and choices. A

Blake Mycoskie

#18. Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.

Naveen Jain

#19. For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership.

Kathryn Minshew

#20. Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would ... make money.

Robert Redford

#21. You may start small but don't stay small

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#22. The research that Noam Wasserman has assembled here can help entrepreneurial companies who want to prepare well for their future. The Founder's Dilemmas is a must-read for anyone thinking about starting a business.

Timothy C. Draper

#23. Starting my business has been very hard work. I have received no help from any officials at all.

Chen Guangbiao

#24. When I get asked for advice for a young person starting in the music business, I tell them, 'Play every chance you get, and be real lucky.'

Johnny Gimble

#25. Perseverance is the key to starting a successful business.

Sara Blakely

#26. Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.

Chris Hadfield

#27. So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.

Matthew Lesko

#28. There are two kinds of intelligence in this world. People who are Monopoly smart and people who are Trivial Pursuit smart ... If you're starting your own business, don't even talk to me. But If you need to know who the lead singer of Kajagoogoo is, I'm your guy. His name is Limahl, by the way.

Christian Finnegan

#29. Accept that the starting point is the worst your business will ever be. The

Jon Nastor

#30. If you are an entrepreneur or starting your own business learn how to sell

Timi Nadela

#31. The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. You want to create a monopoly. We want to invest in a company that has a good plan to create a monopoly.

Peter Thiel

#32. So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.

Simon Sinek

#33. I had long planned to start a foundation. I wanted to do something with long-range benefit to humanity. Starting a business and making a lot of money doesn't make for a fulfilling life.

Fred Kavli

#34. When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true.

Willard Scott

#35. You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.

Simon Le Bon

#36. I followed someone who had very large shoes. He had very large shoes. Mr. J. R. D. Tata. He was a legend in the Indian business community. He had been at the helm of the Tata organization for 50 years. You were almost starting to think he was going to be there forever.

Ratan Tata

#37. Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

Natalie Massenet

#38. I used to pick up lettering jobs when I was first starting in the business like in between if I couldn't get other work.

Ralph Reese

#39. For me, politics is not a career. For me, my career was being in business and starting a business and making it successful. My life's passion has been my family, my faith and my country.

Mitt Romney

#40. With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.

P.T. Barnum

#41. Starting a business is risky. Half of all new businesses fail to experience a fifth anniversary. And everyone knows that you could lose all the money you've invested in your new company and then some. Those are the obvious risks of trying to be an entrepreneur.

Scott Shane

#42. Starting a business is easy, succeeding is a different story." Model Me VIP

Steven Cuoco

#43. Starting a business on the side while keeping your day job can provide all the cash flow you need.

Jason Fried

#44. Money is a very fundamental ingredient in anyone starting up a new business.

Lloyd Dorfman

#45. Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company.

Marc Benioff

#46. Be your own boss. If you're aiming for true wealth and freedom consider starting your own business.

Timi Nadela

#47. Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed

Sam Altman

#48. When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.

John Corbett

#49. Thinking about starting a small business? Assume everything will cost twice as much and take twice as long as you think it will.

Dave Ramsey

#50. When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.

Peter Thiel

#51. When women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.

Sheryl WuDunn

#52. Knowledge is more important than capital. Lack of capital is a common excuse for not starting a business venture.

Timi Nadela

#53. The only thing worse than starting something and failing ... is not starting something.

Seth Godin

#54. Thomas sniffed. "Don't let's start with all that." "I am not starting anything! You yourself started this business!" "Enough, Kam. I am warning you." "You don't warn me when I'm warning you!

Mira Jacob

#55. My goal with our American Made program is to inspire people of all ages to become 'doers,' whether it's them learning how to make an easy weekday dinner or starting their own business.

Martha Stewart

#56. The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.

Robert Kiyosaki

#57. If you're just starting out, don't focus on the cheese, focus on the cow.

Ehab Atalla

#58. I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream.

Greg Wise

#59. 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

#60. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

Mark Cuban