Top 74 Start Your Business Quotes
#1. Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours
Richard Branson
#2. Learn the rules and learn the game, before you start breaking the rules and changing the game.
Your education, experience and understanding of what was and what is, will give you the best foundation to change what will be.
Loren Weisman
#3. You don't have to justify your path to anyone. If people says to you "Why would you start this business?" Your response "because this is what I choose." No further explanation necessary.
Timi Nadela
#4. 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
#5. You can laugh at Christianity; you can mock and ridicule it. But it works. It changes lives. If you trust Christ, start watching your attitudes and actions, because Jesus Christ is in the business of changing lives.
Josh McDowell
#6. Its easier to start a global business than a local one, make your business one where you can work from anywhere in the world
Roger James Hamilton
#7. To be able to watch something that you start on your television that you then move to your mobile device, I think that's a big benefit for the content business.
Jon Feltheimer
#8. Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
Richard Branson
#9. If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion.
Matt Mullenweg
#10. When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.
Hulk Hogan
#11. I have a foundational belief that business results start with culture and your people.
Douglas Conant
#12. If you go out there and start making noise and making sales - people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all.
Daymond John
#13. It was actually very difficult., especially during the first five years of the start-up stage, when all the odds seemed to be against us - this is probably true for most entrepreneurs. To succeed, you really have to put your heart and soul into it. (p. 71)
Injap Sia
#14. Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!
Kevin O'Leary
#15. A lot of us start out nimble. You need to stay that way. You want to have that in your culture. Check to see why things are going wrong and fix them. Understand what's going on in your business so you know if there's a drop somewhere.
JJ Ramberg
#17. Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.
Arthur Phillips
#18. Quotes = Success
Music = Success
Failure = Success
Loyalty = Success
Books = Success
Mistakes = Success
...
These are the lessons for today, try to put them in your bag and start using them one by one!
Deyth Banger
#19. Your business will look totally different from your customer's viewpoint, so jump the counter and start to see things from their perspective.
Feargal Quinn
#20. You're through running from that sh*t. I get it now, I don't like it, but I get it. You still have unfinished business that's why they're always on your mind. I hope you'll get to the point where you stop running and start fighting back.
Jordan Silver
#21. If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally.
Robert Herjavec
#22. There are two things that make today the greatest entrepreneurial age: 1. We have access to teachers like never before. 2. You can start a business from home while still working at your job.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#23. Before you start any business, you need to get your target audience down pat. Who do you want to serve? Who will your product/service benefit the most? Don't worry about the rest.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#24. There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you've mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!
Jack Canfield
#25. In this particular business [cinema], you don't choose your own experiences. They start to happen and then they start to peel off and make other ones happen, and then you can start choosing. But it happens to you.
Kelli O'Hara
#26. When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.
Kelly Cutrone
#27. It's a given that if you start your own business, you're going to be (1) in control of your destiny, and (2) real busy.
Georgette Mosbacher
#28. If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case. So dust off your horn and start tooting.
Hugh MacLeod
#29. Always seek input from others to aide you in reaching the best possible decision for your business/start-up. This is due to entrepreneurship mostly being about taking calculated risks, and you will always create better strategies if more facts and information go into the decision-making process.
Luigi Wewege
#30. If you take an idea and just hold it in your head, you unconsciously start to do things that advance you toward that goal.
Biz Stone
#31. Whatever business you have, if you truly believe in what you're doing, you're capable of going any place and doing anything. Pursue Your Dreams!
Rachel A. Olsen
#32. Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.
Robert Kiyosaki
#33. In school, you get a limited view of the world. Start working. Find your passion. Take your time doing that. Once you've found what you're passionate about, then lock down. Even if you want to start a business, it's helpful to work, see how other businesses are run.
Joe Mansueto
#34. One of my psychoses is that I feel like I can do anything. Actually, I believe anybody can do and make anything, even things that don't exist. The making isn't the hard part; it's having faith. If you do only reasonable things, you'll never start your own business.
Bre Pettis
#35. I believe a lot of players that start to think about money - 'Oh my goodness; I'm up for a new contract' - they don't have a great season because they're thinking about all these different things. Do your business on the field, and everything takes care of itself.
LaDainian Tomlinson
#36. Experience shows that, once you start using the business storytelling process, you are unlikely to return to your old methods.
Luis Cubero
#37. In business it is most often all about getting your foot in the door and once you do, everything opens up and things start to naturally progress into bigger and more opportunities.
Lori Greiner
#38. The problem is that many entrepreneurs start with good intentions to create a new mindset system but then slack off. The solution is to make that system part of your daily routine.
Lisa A. Mininni
#39. If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.
Jeff Bezos
#40. Passion
it's the driving force that you just can't ignore. It's what will make your new adventure seem more like fun, than work. It's the difference between wanting to start a business and craving it.
Mac Anderson
#41. If you can't develop a lot of paying customers for your product, you don't really have a business to build.
Timothy Freriks
#42. When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.
Josh Turner
#43. Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then, start to think about not just your economic concerns, but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have.
Jerry Greenfield
#44. If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
Fran Tarkenton
#45. The fact that you have started a small business doesn't mean you should be thinking small. Think BIG! Start Small! Expand your territories!
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#46. When you start out in this business, the Hall of Fame is not what you're thinking about. You think all you want to do is make it to the major leagues. That's your goal, and that's your ambition as a broadcaster, just as it is with playing.
Hank Greenwald
#47. To you, being rich might mean owning a goat farm in South Carolina. For your best friend, it might mean being able to start her own business selling wine over the Internet. Whatever the case, youre probably not motivated by the money itself, but by what the money could let you be and do.
J.D. Roth
#48. Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?
Joshua E. Leyenhorst
#49. When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.
Will Arnett
#50. If you are an entrepreneur planning to start your own company, I can't think of a better place to begin than by operating your business by the Golden Rule. Make this a high priority; never make a decision that contradicts the Golden Rule.
Mary Kay Ash
#51. For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
#52. If you're a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You're probably on your email a lot, taking phone calls and going on regular business trips that don't involve your man. He can start to feel left out of a very important and very time-consuming part of your life.
Patti Stanger
#53. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.
Martha Stewart
#54. A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else's.
Kathy McClary
#55. When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.
Wayne Rogers
#56. Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
Lee Iacocca
#57. Realize that your life situation will never line up perfectly for you to start a business.
Ehab Atalla
#58. Entrepreneur, your last 20 tweets has to be about your brain, brand and business.
Onyi Anyado
#59. You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.
Miranda Lambert
#60. Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business.
Alexander Osterwalder
#61. It's alright to keep and open mind, but at a certain point - once you have thoroughly completed your homework - you have to learn how to stop and focus on intensely and passionately executing these goals step by step. You have to repel the distractions.
Injap Sia
#62. Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental.
Robert Kiyosaki
#63. There's no such thing as "Perfect' time to start your own startup business. You will be waiting for the rest of your life.
Timi Nadela
#64. You need to ask yourself " How much do you want" before you start your online business.
Satyendra Pandey
#65. Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?
Brian Tracy
#66. Your biggest fear is the transition from football to business. You feel inferior at the beginning. You don't have the knowledge to compete. But once you start focusing and understanding, then you start relating to things.
Emmitt Smith
#67. The way to be irreplaceable is to become a social innovator. Start projects that motivate you to save the world and simultaneously make you money (and create mindshare) for your company. Social innovation makes magic happen.
Richie Norton
#68. If you are successful, you will be cloned. That's life. In fact, it's a sign that you've made it when clones of your website, mobile app, and business start cropping up.
Fred Wilson
#69. Embrace your fire - even in hard times. A down economy can actually be a great time to start a business.
Jean Chatzky
#70. 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
#71. If you set a goal of becoming an expert in your business, you would immediately start doing all kinds of things you don't do now.
Geoff Colvin
#72. Intake is everything. And that is, that's where you start to realize your ego has no business in our business. Once you think you know everything, it's only a matter of time. So I will forever remain a student.
Pharrell Williams
#73. I think if you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else.
Joan Cusack
#74. Have you ever been tempted to start your own business- First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God.
Phil Vischer
