10 Thought-provoking Quotes About Running a Business

We all need inspiration to push us forward and keep us on track with our goals.  We need wisdom to pursue our goals in a healthy and patient way.

Procrastination is easy. Inspiration and motivation…not so much sometimes. One way to inspire yourself is with the words of others. When feeling discouraged, allow yourself to remember why you are doing what you’re doing, and who you are doing it for.

To start you out on the “road to inspiration”, here are 10 quotes to motivate you:

  • “You don’t build a business, you build people, then people build the business.”
    -Zig Ziglar

  • “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
    -Mark Twain

  • “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
    Jim Rohn

  • “If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to help moving forward. 
    -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
    -Lou Holtz

  • “Success is not final; failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    -Winston Churchill

  • “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get runover just sitting there.”
    -Will Rodgers

  • “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into action, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”
    -Barack Obama

  • “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”
    - Colin Powell

  • “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
    -Thomas Edison

There you have it! I hope these quotes helped inspire you and motivated you to start working on whatever project you feel that you’ve put off! (Or is that just me?)

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