Top 70 Small Business Quotes
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51. “Plan your work – work your plan.”

— B.C. Forbes

52. “You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.”

— Napoleon Hill

53. “There is no sale without the story; no knockout without the setup.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

54. “Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.”

— Richard Branson

55. “The ability to bounce back after a setback is the single most important trait an entrepreneurial venture can possess.”

— Richard Branson

56. “There is never a bad time to start a business – unless you want to start a mediocre one.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

57. “Trust is a good business practice.”

— Jim Blasingame

58. “Do it. Try it. Fix it.”

— Sam Walton

59. “Know what your customers want most and what your company does best. Focus on where those two meet.”

— Kevin Stirtz

60. “Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new, innovative and fresh approaches are the very reason many start-ups are able to compete and sometimes outpace the established market leaders.”

— Richard Branson

61. “Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them. We know if we treat our employees right, they’ll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they’ll come back.”

— J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

62. “If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.”

— Ray Kroc

63. “Don’t expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen...”

— Deborah Meaden

64. “Love what you do or don’t do it.”

— Mark Cuban

65. “Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you’re working on.”

— Thomas A. Edison

66. “Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

67. “If you want to build a business, build the people.”

— Brownie Wise

68. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it.”

— Kim Garst

69. “Punctuality is the soul of business.”

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

70. “The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don’t bother thinking about becoming a business owner.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

71. “Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.”

— W. Clement Stone

72. “Don’t start a business. Find a problem. Solve a problem. The business comes second.”

— Robert Herjavec

73. “The only thing worse than losing an employee you have trained is keeping an employee you haven’t trained.”

— Zig Ziglar

74. “If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.”

— Jim Rohn

75. “Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise, someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass.”

— Mark Cuban

76. “You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.”

— Seth Godin