900 Motivational Quotes To Inspire Small Business Owners
1. “It used to be that the big eat the small; now it’s the fast that eat the slow. Fast is the new big.”
2. “When you support a small business, you’re supporting a dream”
3. “Support women. Support freelancers. Support creatives. Support small businesses.”
4. Thank you for supporting my small business. We are honored to have you on board.
5. “Supporting small businesses is like that first sip of coffee in the morning. So gooooood……”
6. “The most powerful thing we can do is get involved locally. Help our local community and become community activists in our own smaller circle.” – Gavin Creel
7. “Walking into a small business is like that warm feeling you get in a small country town where everyone smiles and says hello. Whereas a corporate store, the people look at you as another dollar sign.”
8. “We have to keep small businesses healthy in order to keep our economy strong.”
9. “Every small purchase makes a big difference!”
10. “When you support handmade you are not just supporting a person, small business, family, our economy; you are purchasing a small part of an artist’s heart.” — Unknown
11. “When you raise taxes on small businesses, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.” — Mitt Romney
12. “Small businesses represent the creative consciousness…” – Maayan Zilberman and Alex Burn
13. “If you’re going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.” – Glen Mazzara
14. “Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, Do what is great while it is small.”
15. “Small businesses are the heartbeat of your neighborhood, the spine of your local economy, and the spirit of your town.”
16. “No protection for the small-business owner. Only taxes and extortion.”
17. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” —Robert Collier, author
18. “The self-employed need business strategies that are relationship-based, not transactional, authentic to who you are, and right-sized for small business.”
19. “When you buy from a small business, an actual person does a little happy dance.” — Unknown
20. My favorite movie is 'Forrest Gump.' He said nobody makes money catching whales, people make money catching shrimps. So we serve small business.
21. “I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. You are the first one to work, last one to leave, and last one to be paid.” — Kevin McCarthy
22. “As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.” — Sue Kelly
23. “The good news for small businesses is that the big ones rarely bother to use their advantage to its maximum. Why? Because they’ve forgotten how to think like entrepreneurs.”
24. When you support a small business, you support a dream. – Anonymus
25. “I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.” – Anthony Bourdain
26. “As someone who has owned a small business in the past, I understand how difficult it can be to get a loan.” — Tony Cardenas
27. “Small business. Big heart.”
28. Every small purchase makes a big difference. – Anonymus
29. “If you think you are too small to make an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.”
30. When you support handmade you are not just supporting a person, small business, family, our economy; you are purchasing a small part of an artist’s heart. – Anonymus
31. “My favorite movie is ‘Forrest Gump.’ He said nobody makes money catching whales, people make money catching shrimps. So we serve small business.” – Jack Ma
32. Small businesses provide the feeling that a real person is behind it all, someone who cares more about giving us a quality product or service, over just taking our hard-earned dollars. – Annia Bukhman
33. “In America, small business is a big deal.” — Bob Beauprez
34. “Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.” — Anthea Turner
35. “For Small Owner Operated Businesses:
36. “A big business starts small.” – Richard Branson
37. A small business is an amazing way to serve and leave an impact on the world you live in. – Nicole Snow
38. “Small businesses represent the creative consciousness...”
39. “A big business starts small.” — Richard Branson
40. Celebrity makes $80+ million a year, you will never meet them. You pay them full price or extra for what they sell. A small business owner makes $25K – $100K a year, they live next door, and you want a discount. – Anonymus
41. Small Business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient, & the persistent. It’s for the overcomer. - Unknown
42. “When you buy from a small business, you’re not helping a CEO buy a third vacation home. You are helping a little girl get dance lessons, a little boy get his team jersey, a mom and dad to put food on the table.”
43. “Behind every small business, there’s a story worth knowing.”
44. “Behind every small business, there’s a story worth knowing.” – Paul Ryan
45. “We need to keep our small businesses healthy in order to keep our economy strong.”
46. “As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.” — Kevin McCarthy
47. “Supporting a small business means you’re supporting a Family. You’re helping to pay a mortgage, electric bill, buy groceries, transportation, a child to get braces or sending a student to college.”
48. “Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy. Do what is great while it is small.”
49. When you buy from a small business, an actual person does a little happy dance. – Anonymus
50. “By using locally manufactured products, you will be able to help the small entrepreneurs in your area to a great extent.”
51. “A big business starts small” – Richard Branson
52. “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”
53. Giving a gift from a small business is giving a gift twice. – Anonymus
54. “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”
55. “A small business is an amazing way to serve and leave an impact on the world you live in.” – Nicole Snow
56. “I was just trying to do a small business it grow that big, take that much responsibility and got in so much trouble. Every day is as busy as a President and I don’t have any power and then I don’t have my life.”
57. It’s time for a change. It’s time to #shoplocal and get back to the small businesses who know what it’s like to build a business, who understand that we need to #shopwithoursensorysenses.
58. “Small businesses create more jobs than large corporations.” — Kevin McCarthy
59. “Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.” — John Boehner
60. “Behind every small business, there’s a story worth knowing.” — Paul Ryan
61. “The biggest mistake a small business can make is to think like a small business.”
62. I’m a big fan of small business ownership. I think it’s the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it. – Bill Rancic
63. “By using locally manufactured products, you will be able to help the small entrepreneurs in your area to a great extent.” – Ram Nath Kovind
64. A big business starts small. – Richard Branson
65. “When you buy from a small business, an actual person does a little happy dance.”
66. “Small business people are people with goals and values that can’t be calculated on a profit and loss statement.” — Linda McMahon
67. Behind every small business, there’s a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores – these didn’t come out of nowhere. – Paul Ryan
68. We’re a small business, but we make big changes.
69. “Just a small business that decided to go for it.”
70. “A small business is an amazing way to serve and leave an impact on the world you live in.” — Nicole Snow
71. Do something today that your future self will thank you for. - Sean Patrick FlanerySean Patrick Quote - Small Business Struggles5. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is
72. “A small business is an amazing way to serve and leave an impact on the world you live in.” Nicole Snow
73. “Small businesses provide the feeling that a real person is behind it all, someone who cares more about giving us a quality product or service, over just taking our hard-earned dollars.” – Annie Bukhman
74. “probably contributes to an explanation of why people litigate, why they start wars, and why they open small businesses.”
75. “Every small purchase makes a big difference.”
76. “Know your communities well! Ask your customers questions and get feedback, get to know them and their needs, chat with other small businesses, work together, and above all: support each other!” —Andrew Young, chef and owner of Bubble and Brown Bakery
77. “A big business starts small.”
78. We need to keep our small businesses healthy in order to keep our economy strong. – Keith Haynes
79. “We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small businesses.” — George Pataki
80. “If we were all rational, there would be no small businesses, there would be no exploration, there would be very little innovation and there would be no great leaders to inspire all those things.”
81. “If people support independently owned small businesses in their community, they can make a difference.”
82. “Support your friend’s small business and progress the way you support the celebrities you don’t actually know.”
83. Thank you for supporting my small business!
84. “The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.” — Sandy Adams
85. “As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.” — Tim Scott
86. “When you support handmade, you are not just supporting a person, small business, family, our economy; you are purchasing a small part of an artist’s heart.”
87. “When you support a small business, you support a dream.” — Unknown
88. Your purchase has just helped a small business. Thank you for your support. We can’t wait for you to try your [product] and tell us what you think.
89. “Small businesses provide the feeling that a real person is behind it all, someone who cares more about giving us a quality product or service, over just taking our hard earned dollars.”
90. A big business starts small.
91. “Small business people are people with goals and values that can’t be calculated on a profit and loss statement.” – Linda McMahon
92. “My grandfather had a paint store. It’s what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history.” — Sheryl Sandberg
93. “Think big, shop small.”
94. “Small business owners have great passion and conviction for their product or service, but sometimes they need some additional support.”
95. “… they [small businesses] contribute tremendously to the unique identities of communities everywhere.” – Maayan Zilberman and Alex Burn
96. “We need to keep our small businesses healthy in order to keep our economy strong.” — Keith Haynes
97. “When you support a small business you are supporting a dream.”
98. “It takes YOU to start the trend. Shop small. Shop local. Eat local. Spend local. Enjoy local.
99. “Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.” — Sue Kelly
100. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier
101. “It’s not the government that creates jobs; it’s small businesses.” — Karen Mills
102. ... they [small businesses] contribute tremendously to the unique identities of communities everywhere.”
103. “When you shop small, you are backing the small businesses that strengthen and diversify our communities.” – Elizabeth Rutledge
104. “I didn’t realize how hard it was to run a small business.” — Andrew Mason
105. “...when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.”
106. Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient and the persistent. It’s for the overcomer. – Unknown
107. “I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.”
108. “After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.” — Ellen Tauscher
109. “Every small purchase makes a big difference.” — Unknown
110. “If I don’t support other small businesses, how can I expect others to support my small business.”
111. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into smaller manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” –Mark Twain, American Humorist, and Author
112. “Small opportunities are often beginning of great achievements.”
113. “Small business is the backbone of our economy. I’m for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.” — Michele Bachmann
114. “Behind every small business, there’s a story worth knowing.” – Paul Ryan, politician
115. “Many small businesses are doomed from day one, not from competition or the economy, but from the ignorance of their owners . . . their destiny is already decided because they have no idea how a business should be operated.” –William Manchee, author
116. “Many small businesses would rather face an angry barbarian horde than tackle their cash flow statement or price a new product.”
117. “Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.” – Tom Allen
118. “And what most people don’t understand is that the bulk of business in this country is small business.” — Alphonso Jackson
119. “A small business is an amazing way to serve and leave an impact on the world you live in.”
120. “We need to keep our small businesses healthy in order to keep our economy strong.” – Keith Haynes
121. “It’s not how far you fall but how high you bounce that counts” is a quote that will inspire your small business team.
122. “I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.” – Jack Ma
123. “We are so lucky”: Community keeps small business founders going after blaze tears through Melbourne warehouse
124. When you buy from a small business you’re not helping a CEO buy a third vacation home. You are helping a little girl get dance lessons, a little boy his team jersey, a mom put food on the table, a dad pay a mortgage or a student pay for college. – Anonymus
125. “70% of small businesses are owned and operated by a single person.”
126. “When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.” –Jesse Jackson
127. “If you think you are too small to make an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.” – Ekaterina Walter
128. “Small businesses provide the feeling that a real person is behind it all, someone who cares more about giving us a quality product or service, over just taking our hard-earned dollars.”
129. “Big businesses can help by engaging aspiring entrepreneurs and promoting initiatives which support small businesses from within.”
130. “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”
131. “Independent businesses give cities their shape, texture, color, and taste… often literally.” – Hasan Minhaj
132. “Don’t just stand for the success of other women – insist on it.” –Gail Blanke, President and CEO, Lifedesigns
133. “It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.”
134. “Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher”
135. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
136. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb
137. “You don’t build a business, you build people, then people build the business.”
138. “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
139. “One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want.” –Zig Ziglar, Motivational Speaker, and Author
140. “Customers may forget what you said but they’ll never forget how you made them feel.”
141. “I’m happy as long as I am making other people happy.”
142. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.”
143. “Never ever give up! Constant effort is the key to success.”
144. “If people haven’t laughed at your dreams, then you aren’t dreaming big enough. Just keep pushing forward.” - Daymond John
145. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” – Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
146. “Resilience isn’t a single skill. It’s a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.” – Jean Chatzky
147. “You are not your resume, you are your work.” — Seth Godin
148. “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.” – Dennis Waitley
149. “Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.” –Nelson Mandela, South African Leader
150. “When you buy something made by a person, there is something special there, and you feel it.” – J. Donald Walters
151. “People think innovation is just having a good idea, but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.” - Mark Zuckerberg
152. “It isn’t enough just looking for the quality in the products we buy, we must ensure that there is quality in the lives of the people who make them.” – Orsola De Castro
153. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” – Ralph Marston
154. “Think globally, act locally.”
155. I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got. – Walter Cronkite
156. “Entrepreneurs aren’t looking to go backward. They are looking to go forward, toward their prize of realizing their dreams.”
157. “If you broke a lot of rules as a kid, you’d probably make a great entrepreneur.” - Harley Finkelstein, president of Shopify
158. “Independent businesses are the lifeline of every community.”
159. “What if we started by slowing down and not consuming so much stuff, just because it’s there and cheap and available.”
160. “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
161. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”
162. “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” - Oprah Winfrey
163. “I always believe in buying things locally; anything locally made is a big plus, along with organic materials.” — Jessica Hart
164. “I don’t build to have clients. I have clients in order to build.” – The Fountainhead
165. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
166. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do” – Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple
167. “Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.”
168. “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
169. “It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin, naturalist, biologist, author
170. “In order to succeed. We must first believe that we can.”
171. “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”
172. “Starting a successful business is not tricky. Starting a successful business does not require above average intelligence.” – Clay Clark
173. “Hustle until you no longer need to introduce yourself.” – Anonymous Entrepreneur
174. “Don’t spread yourself too thin… focus trumps freneticism any day.”– John Coleman
175. The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. – Debbie Fields
176. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
177. “If you look at history, innovation doesn’t come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.” – Steven Johnson, author and speaker
178. “I think local shopping areas and markets are terribly important, both for tradespeople and the local feeling of an area.” – Prunella Scales
179. “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” – Oprah Winfrey
180. “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision and relentlessly drive it to completion.” – Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of General Electric
181. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn
182. “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” – Frank Zappa
183. “Bringing great people onto your team is about demonstrating that size really doesn’t matter – people do.”
184. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister
185. “You can feel when someone really cares about the neighborhood they’re running a business in.” — Sandeep Salter
186. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” - Henry Ford
187. “Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.”
188. “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.” – Josh James, CEO and co-founder of Omniture
189. “I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.” - Larry Page
190. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”
191. “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” — Oprah Winfrey
192. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich, politician, author
193. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” - Winston Churchill
194. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” —Bruce Lee, actor
195. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” –Guy Kawasaki, Alltop Co-Founder, and Entrepreneur
196. “You don’t need to have a 100–person company to develop that idea.”
197. “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” – Mark Zuckerberg
198. “If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.” – Zig Ziglar, author, salesman and motivational speaker
199. And so you get a different kind of care and quality in their product because their work is a reflection of themselves.
200. “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra
201. “Make something people want" includes making a company that people want to work for.”
202. “I want to support my friend’s business but I’m just not into (fancy nails, jewelry, vegan baking, hipster sweaters for pugs, etc)”
203. “In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.”
204. “As a leader, it’s a major responsibility on your shoulders to practice the behavior you want others to follow.” - Himanshu Bhatia, founder & CEO of Ricovr Healthcare
205. “A Knock Down Does Not Have To Be A KnockOut.” – Kyle Vidrine
206. “Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities, and don’t let the bastards get you down.” –Michael Bloomberg, Former Mayor of New York and Founder of Bloomberg L.P.
207. “Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.”
208. “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” - Albert Einstein
209. “The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.” - Vince Lombardi, football coach and NFL executive
210. “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
211. “You don’t learn to walk by following the rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” — Richard Branson
212. “In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” - Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook
213. “Don’t deliver a product, deliver an experience.”
214. “Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.”
215. “Find a great mentor, someone who has already been through the many challenges of being an entrepreneur.” -Jodi Levine
216. “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
217. “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
218. “Think globally, act locally urges people to consider the health of the entire planet and take action in their own communities and cities.” – Patrick Geddes
219. “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
220. “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary.”
221. “Most independent businesses are run by people – not by boards, not by stockholders, not by algorithms.” — Erica Cerulo
222. “I see dead Presidents. Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington.”
223. “These are establishments that are often the character of a neighborhood, a community.” – Rembert Browne
224. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
225. “Any time is a good time to start a company.” –Ron Conway, Noted Startup Investor, SV Angel
226. “The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.” -Michael Gerber
227. “Buy local fruits and veggies at the grocery store. You will support local businesses and cut down on all the fuel that is used to truck produce around from state to state.” – Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
228. “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” Mark Twain
229. “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer and Nobel Prize nominee
230. “Authenticity and hustle – that’s why you should support independent businesses.” – Yu-Ming Wu
231. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.” Eleanor Roosevelt
232. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
233. “There are no working hours for leaders.”
234. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.” — Henry Ford
235. “Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves—their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.” - Peter Drucker, management consultant, educator, and author
236. Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of
237. There is no royal, flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it. For if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard. – C.J. Walker
238. “Just go for it. Don’t be afraid. You’re always going to wonder, ‘What if?’” —Sarah Lawrence, owner of Black Sheep Boutique
239. “Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.” –Seth Godin, Author
240. “When you support an independent business, you’re supporting a true reflection of the person or people behind it.” – Stella Ishii
241. “To create success in your business, you have to protect your capacity to serve others by learning to work efficiently and effectively.”
242. “Everything starts with the customer.”
243. “If you hear a voice within you saying ‘you are not a painter’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
244. “Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.” – Jeffrey Zeldman
245. I’m happy as long as I am making other people happy. – Dominique Ansel, Dominique Ansel Bakery
246. “Setting goal is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
247. “You can’t lose confidence in yourself, or you’ve lost already. When you get knocked down, you’ve got to keep getting back up.” -Tim Tebow
248. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.” —Herbert Swope, journalist
249. “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
250. “Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice.”
251. “Fast fashion is not free. Someone somewhere is paying.” – Lucy Siegle
252. “Most independent businesses are run by people – not by boards, not by stockholders, not by algorithms.” – Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur
253. “If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.”
254. “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” – Peter Drucker
255. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” –Bill Gates, Microsoft Founder, and former CEO
256. “Good things come to those who shop local.”
257. “The biggest risk is not in what you build. It is in not supporting what you build.”
258. “Shop local, cause Amazon won’t sponsor your kid’s ball team.”
259. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.”
260. “By doing so, you’re directly putting money back into your own community. You’re funding great ideas and ventures that can only exist outside of mainstream, corporate chains.” – Tamara Santibanez
261. “Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.” –Stephen R. Covey, Author
262. “The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.” –Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO
263. “The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.” - Jeff Bezos
264. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” — Albert Einstein
265. “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.”
266. “I would rather earn 1% off 100 people’s efforts than 100% off my own efforts.” —John D. Rockefeller, oil industry businessman
267. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard
268. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” - Thomas Edison
269. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
270. “Bringing great people onto your team is about demonstrating that size really doesn’t matter – people do.” Jess Campbell
271. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
272. “I’m tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.” –Madonna, singer
273. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” –Thomas Edison, inventor
274. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” —Truman Capote, author
275. “Why help make big companies bigger when you can get the same thing from the little guy and actually help someone accomplish their dream?” –Trevor D. Richardson, author
276. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
277. “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
278. “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
279. “Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last.” —Ian Hutchinson, author
280. “Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.” – Tom Peters, author
281. “What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.”- Roy T. Bennett
282. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
283. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” —J.K. Rowling, author
284. “You manage things; you lead people.” —Grace Murray Hopper, computer scientist and U.S. Navy Rear Admiral
285. “Don’t start a business unless it’s an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession.” - Mark Cuban
286. “It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective, and are able to align the interest of a great team.” - Steve Case
287. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”
288. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” – Mark Twain
289. “Build systems for the business to come, not the business you have.”
290. “It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.” — Mary Kay Ash
291. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” — Coco Chanel
292. “Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.” - Reid Hoffman
293. “There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” - Elon Musk
294. “I’m a normal consumer but try to do the best I can. I try to buy locally, and I mostly avoid supermarkets.” – Imelda May
295. “I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company grows.” - Garrett Camp, co-founder of Uber
296. “A business absolutely devoted to service will have one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”
297. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell, former U.S. National Security Advisor
298. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” - Jim Rohn, entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker
299. “I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.”
300. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison, inventor
301. “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!”
302. “Note to self: every time you were convinced you couldn’t go on, you did.” ― Unknown
303. “Support your friends. Don’t ask for free stuff, pay for it. Go to their shows, be the first to buy their products and promote their ideas.” — Unknown
304. “I always believe in buying things locally; anything locally made is a big plus, along with organic materials.” – Jessica Hart
305. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”
306. “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.”
307. “I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it’s common sense.” — Eliot Page
308. “You have to work on the business first before it works for you.”
309. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
310. “What is the difference between coaching, consulting, and training?
311. “Independent businesses create and offer choice.” — Lyndsey Butler
312. “Independent business is the fabric, man.”
313. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
314. “In a world where you can shop anywhere…shop local.”
315. “What if we started by slowing down and not consuming so much stuff, just because it’s there and cheap and available.” – Andrew Morgan
316. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln
317. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
318. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
319. “Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” —Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor, producer, and philanthropist
320. If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”
321. “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” – Paulo Coelho, author
322. “Independent businesses are where innovation happens - it’s where things move forward.”
323. “As consumers, we have so much power to change the world by just being careful in what we buy.” – Emma Watson
324. “Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
325. “The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.”
326. “No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible, be the unexpected.” - Lynda Barry, cartoonist, author, and motivational speaker
327. “Timing, perseverance, and 10 years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” -Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter
328. “One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.” – Brian Tracy
329. “You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” – Warren Buffett
330. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill
331. “One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.”
332. “How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities.”
333. Support your friend’s business and progression like you support the celebrities that you actually don’t know. – Anonymus
334. “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.” –Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO
335. “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.” - Jeff Bezos
336. “Buy GOOD things from REAL people.”
337. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
338. “There is little success where there is little laughter.”
339. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
340. “What can go wrong, will go wrong.” – Ozzy Osbourne
341. “Independent businesses make neighborhoods healthy; they ground them.”
342. “It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.” — Edwin Land
343. “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
344. “Support each other. Why do you need a reason to do that besides the fact that it’s the right thing to do?”
345. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
346. “There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.”
347. “Good order is the foundation of all things.”
348. “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” – Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook
349. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
350. “Hakuna Matata… it means no worries!” – Lion King
351. “Supporting another person’s success won’t ever damper yours.”
352. “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
353. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
354. “Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you.”
355. “Independent business is the fabric, man.” – DJ Clark Kent
356. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” – Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures
357. “Never let yourself be pushed around–but treat the good people great.”
358. “I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.” – Bobby Knight
359. “Some of the most green people in our lives are our parents and grandparents, who always bought locally and carefully.” – Su-chin Pak
360. “The first one gets the oyster, the second gets the shell.” – Andrew Carnegie
361. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower, former president
362. “What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
363. “If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.” - Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox
364. “The way to get started in business is to quit talking and start doing.” –Walt Disney, Co-Founder, Disney
365. “Great customer service is a critical competitive advantage for a business.”
366. “If people haven’t laughed at your dreams, then you aren’t dreaming big enough. Just keep pushing forward.” - Daymond John, founder, President, and CEO of FUBU
367. “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” – Babe Ruth
368. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
369. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores – these didn’t come out of nowhere.”
370. “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
371. “Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.” – Thomas Dewar, distiller, businessman
372. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee, martial artist, actor and director
373. “The best compliment is the referral of family and friends.”
374. “When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming.” — Dory
375. “Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.”
376. “An obstacle is often a stepped stone.”
377. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison
378. “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” –Wayne Gretzy, Hockey Star
379. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
380. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
381. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” - Henry Ford
382. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: The fear of failure.”
383. “Make the customer the hero of your story.”
384. “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” Thomas Watson, CEO of IBM
385. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t — you’re right.” –Henry Ford, Ford Motor Company Founder
386. “Most independent businesses are run by people - not by boards, not by stockholders, not by algorithms.”
387. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” —Rosalynn Carter, former U.S. first lady
388. “Support each other. Why do you need a reason to do that besides the fact that it’s the right thing to do?” – Scarr and Los Franco
389. “The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”
390. “If we did all the things we were capable of, we would astound ourselves” – Thomas Edison, inventor
391. “Some of the most green people in our lives are our parents and grandparents, who always bought locally and carefully.” — Su-chin Pak
392. “In the face of adversity, we have a choice. We can be bitter, or we can be better. Those words are my North Star.” ― Caryn Sullivan
393. “There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.” – Mahatma Gandhi
394. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson
395. “The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.” —Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce
396. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” —Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing
397. “Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day, until you reach your goal.” - Ava DuVernay, filmmaker
398. “These are establishments that are often the character of a neighborhood, a community.”
399. “It’s important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.” - Sara Blakely
400. “Independent businesses are the lifeline of every community.” — Wilson Tang
401. “My best advice to entrepreneurs is this: forget about making mistakes, just do it.”
402. “If you don’t laugh reading this book I’ll eat my pocket protector. Wait, did I just admit I had a pocket protector?”
403. When you buy something made by a person, there is something special there, and you feel it. The consciousness with which a thing is made is often more important than the thing itself. – J. Donald Walters
404. “An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.” - Scott Belsky
405. I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. - Steve Jobs
406. “Some of the most green people in our lives are our parents and grandparents, who always bought locally and carefully.”
407. “Don’t count the days, Make the days count.”
408. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
409. “Independent businesses create and offer choice.” – Lyndsey Butler
410. “I try to eat locally and go to the farmer's market.”
411. “There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”
412. “I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally.”
413. “You’re helping real people - who you may know personally - do what they do better.”
414. “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”― Robert Jordan
415. Support your friends. Don’t ask for free stuff, pay for it. Go to their shows, be the first to buy their products and promote their ideas. – Anonymus
416. “Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?” – Alex Noble
417. “It is not your job to prove your value to anyone. It is your job to find the people that already value what you do.”
418. “If you don't love what you do, you won’t do it with much conviction or passion.” - Mia Hamm
419. “Have the end in mind and every day make sure you’re working towards it.” – Ryan Allis, co-founder of iContact Corporation
420. “Startups are the truest passion projects.” - Vinay Kanchan
421. “When nobody fails, everybody loses. Feedback and resilience are vital.” ― Alan Froggatt
422. “Hope is the thing with feathers” — Emily Dickenson
423. “By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.”
424. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder
425. “And so you get a different kind of care and quality in their product because their work is a reflection of themselves.” – Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur
426. “When you support an independent business, you’re supporting a true reflection of the person or people behind it.” — Stella Ishii
427. “You don’t need to have a 100–person company to develop that idea.” – Larry Page
428. “You want to know who your real friends are? Start your own business and ask for their support.”
429. “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” – Phil Knight
430. “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Thomas Watson Sr., CEO of International Business Machines
431. “There’s this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it’s done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.” - Drew Houston
432. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” — Frederick Douglass
433. “Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” – William Durant
434. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” - Napoleon Hill
435. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
436. “Here is the simple but powerful rule… always give people more than they expect to get.”
437. “Business opportunities are like buses: there’s always another one coming.” - Richard Branson
438. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
439. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
440. “The concept of being a locavore, or one who chooses whenever possible to incorporate locally grown or locally produced food into one's nutrition plan, is of great importance.”
441. “You don’t build a business, you build people, then people build the business.” – Zig Zigler
442. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful business entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” –Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and CEO, Apple
443. “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
444. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily.” - Zig Ziglar, author, salesman, and motivational speaker
445. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
446. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
447. “Friends don’t let friends shop at chain stores”
448. “The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It’s this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.” – Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM
449. “It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.” - Simon Sinek, author and motivational speaker
450. “I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars — I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over.” – Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
451. “When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’”
452. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” – Drew Houston, founder and CEO of Dropbox
453. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
454. “Know what your customer want most and what your company does best. Focus on where those two meet.”
455. “Independent businesses make neighborhoods healthy; they ground them.” – Bernie Telsey
456. “When you serve the customer better, they always return on your investment.”
457. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” –Babe Ruth, Baseball Legend
458. “Fast fashion is not free. Someone somewhere is paying.”
459. “Patience: This is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.”
460. “If you hear a voice within you saying ‘you are not a painter’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh
461. “Make the choices that make you nervous. If you make the choice that’s the easy way out, that wasn’t the big vision or big choice to make.” – Eileen Burbidge, partner of Passion Capital
462. “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” – Wayne Huizenga, serial entrepreneur
463. “You want to know who your real friends are? Start your own business and ask for their support.” – Steve Jobs
464. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
465. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”
466. “You want to shop and live near places that actually mean things to people; places that have a real effect on communities.” – Sandeep Salter
467. “Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.” -Dee Hock
468. “Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.” –Jack London, Author
469. “On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. Raise your sail and begin.” – Gregory S. Williams
470. “You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”
471. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
472. “When I go to a new place, I’ll find the locally made natural lip balms and buy them as my little memento.” — Betsy Hodges
473. “You’ve got to be willing to say the thing you didn’t think you would say and do the thing you didn’t think you would do to get the results you’ve always said you deserve.”
474. “Shop where you stay, shop where you see smile, shop such so they sustain.” – Amit Kalantri
475. “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” - Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr
476. “Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.” ― Shannon M Mullen
477. “You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.” – Steve Case, co-founder of AOL
478. “Every time you spend money, you are casting a vote for the kind of world you want.” – Anna Lappe
479. “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination and more drive.”
480. “You’re helping real people – who you may know personally – do what they do better.” – DJ Neil Armstrong
481. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
482. “Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
483. “Everyone has an innate capacity to bounce back from setbacks, reconnect with their passion for work, do their best and thrive no matter how dire external circumstances may seem.” ― Rani Bora
484. “You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.” –Steve Case, AOL Co-Founder, and CEO
485. “Always give your best effort even when the odds are against you.”
486. I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. – Steve Jobs
487. “We used to build businesses with all effort and hard work. Today, we create businesses by paying attention to what the market wants and co-creating with those we serve.”
488. “In a world where you can shop anywhere, shop local.” – Robyn Liechti
489. “Surround yourself with like-minded people who support you on the road to success.”
490. “It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.”
491. “Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone. The best reward is to get there surrounded by winners.” - Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks
492. “Customer don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.”
493. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden
494. “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. president
495. “No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.”
496. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.” – Jeff Bezos
497. “The only way around is through.” – Robert Frost
498. “If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.” –Ray Kroc, McDonald’s Founder
499. “Here is the simple but powerful rule… always give people more than they expect to get.” – Nelson Boswell
500. “You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.” - Jessica Herrin
501. “I do a lot of reading about food and the food industry, so I try to eat locally and go to the farmer’s market.” – Nikki Reeds
502. “This might shock you, but you should fail during the course of your business.” —Mike Kappel, founder and CEO of Patriot Software, LLC
503. “To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.”
504. “Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?”
505. “A business absolutely devoted to service will have one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” – Henry Ford
506. “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
507. “The consciousness with which a thing is made is often more important than the thing itself.” – J. Donald Walters
508. “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.” - Virginia Rometty, former chairman, president and CEO of IBM
509. “My advice for anyone thinking of starting their own business is, above all, don’t wait. If you get an idea in the shower in the morning, try to make it the next day.” - Harley Finkelstein
510. “If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.” – Peter Singer
511. The best compliment you can give is a referral. – Anonymus
512. “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” Nelson Mandela
513. “Vision without action is a daydream.” - Karthik Shankar
514. “I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey
515. “Business has only two functions – marketing and Innovation.”
516. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
517. “The secret of success in any field is redefining what success means to you.” – RuPaul
518. “Independent businesses create and offer choice.”
519. “The most successful entrepreneurs I know are optimistic. It’s part of the job description.” ― Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr
520. Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
521. “It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed. You only have to be right once.” - Mark Cuban
522. “Independent businesses are the lifeline of every community.” – Wilson Tang
523. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
524. “When I go to a new place, I'll find the locally made natural lip balms and buy them as my little memento.”
525. “Authenticity and hustle - that’s why you should support independent businesses.”
526. “The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.” —Tom Peters, author
527. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” –Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
528. ”It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
529. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
530. “Good things come to those who shop local.” – Melinda Lemay
531. “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 it.” – Johnny Cash
532. “We don’t let go of something until the benefits of what’s ahead are greater than what we’ve been holding on to.”
533. “When you make the effort to spend and support the mom and pop business owners, you are supporting and building your community.”
534. “Resilience is built from real hardship and cannot be bought or manufactured.” ― Julie Lythcott-Haim
535. “What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall
536. You can feel when someone really cares about the neighborhood they’re running a business in.
537. “If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.”
538. “If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
539. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” - Henry David Thoreau
540. “Please start a business during this depressive recession. Your opportunity only goes up from here. Opportunities come and go but if you do nothing about them so do you.”
541. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” – Sheryl Sandberg
542. “Never give up. Great things take time.”
543. “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!” – Henry Ford
544. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
545. Supporting another person’s success won’t ever damper yours. – Anonymus
546. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
547. “The best way of learning about anything is by doing.”
548. You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy local and that’s kind of the same. – Anonymus
549. “Luck is what you have leftover after you give 100%.” – Langston Coleman
550. “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, Founder, Wendy’s
551. ”It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
552. “You can’t have a million-dollar business dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.” – Stephen C. Hogan
553. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” - Estée Lauder
554. “There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” – Seth Godin
555. “Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.” - Marva Collins, educator and businesswoman
556. “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.” - Virginia Rometty
557. “Customer service is an opportunity to exceed your customer’s expectations.”
558. “Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of your range.” ― Gregory Boyle
559. “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.”
560. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” —Eleanor Roosevelt, former U.S. First Lady
561. Do not judge me by my success. Judge me
562. “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
563. “Business is all about relationships, how well you build them determines how well they build your business.”
564. “You can’t buy happiness but you can buy local. And that’s kind of the same.”
565. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
566. “If you aren’t first, you’re last.” – Talladega Nights
567. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” - Steve Jobs
568. “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
569. “Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.”
570. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” - Walt Disney
571. “If your business is not on the internet then your business will be out of business.”
572. “It’s during our very worst fall that we can either die or learn to fly.” ― Sira Masetti
573. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
574. “Every business has its own story and its own personality.”
575. “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” - Albert Einstein
576. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” - Elon Musk
577. “The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.”
578. “Buy less. Choose well. Make it last.”
579. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”
580. “The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.”
581. “You can feel when someone really cares about the neighborhood they’re running a business in.” – Sandeep Salter
582. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” –John Maxwell, author
583. “Independent businesses feel like home.”
584. “Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.” – Orison Swett Mard, inspirational author
585. “Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.” - Napoleon Hill
586. “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”
587. “Independent businesses are where most interesting concepts and new ideas are generated.”
588. “Work 9-to-5, spend a couple of hours with your family, 7 to 2am is plenty of time to do damage.” – Gary Vaynerchuk, chairman of VaynerX