I have been a small business owner for a couple of years now and whenever I get the chance I love nothing more than going to watch someone successful in business talk about tactics and methods to take business to the next level. Last year I went to a business seminar where Curtis Luckett III was speaking and it was truly inspiring. One of the best pieces of advice that he gave us was on the theme of inspiration and how reading quotes from successful business leaders each morning, could act as excellent daily motivation tools. For that reason I wanted to share some of my favorites quotes on business in the hope that they can offer you some inspiration.
Sara Blakley, Spanx founder
“Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.”
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Group
“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”
Ben Silbermann, Pinterest founder
“Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.”
Mary Kay Ash, Mark Kay Cosmetics founder
“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”
Jack Ma, founder of AliBaba
“Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine,”
Warren Buffett, Investor
“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong”
Denis Waitley, Inspirational Speaker
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.”
Nolan Bushel, Electrical Engineer and Businessman
“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer”
Vince Lombardi, Football legend
“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”
What are some of your favorite quotes about business? Let us know in the comments section below.