50+ Best Small Business Owner Quotes: Exclusive Selection

To be a small-scale business-owner, you must own a business with fewer than 500 employees and less than $7 million in annual revenues. Profoundly inspirational small business owner quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.

If you’re searching for motivational business quotes and popular entrepreneur quotes that perfectly capture what you’d like to say or just want to feel inspired yourself, browse through an amazing collection of significant globalization quotes, best innovation quotes and greatest employee engagement quotes.

Famous Small Business Owner Quotes

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. Orison Swett Mard

Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open. Thomas Dewar

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast. Tom Peters

It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change. Charles Darwin

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing and being nothing. Denis Waitley

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill

If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail. It takes backbone to lead the life you want. Richard Yates

It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts. Zig Ziglar

Have the end in mind and every day make sure you’re working towards it. Ryan Allis

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. Mark Zuckerberg

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

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. Jim Rohn

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. Conrad Hilton

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

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

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. Peter Drucker

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill

There is no finish line. There are only mile markers. Michael Ventura

The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Fall seven times and stand up eight. Japanese proverb

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

If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. Ken Robinson

Top Small Business Owner Quotes

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.’ Tom Preston-Werner

Creative risk-taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. Gary Ryan Blair

Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself. Oprah Winfrey

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. Nikos Kazantzakis

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success. Robert T. Kiyosaki

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. John D. Rockefeller

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. Ellen DeGeneres

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 keep moving forward. Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. Paulo Coelho

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. Bruce Lee

Failure is an attitude, not an outcome. Harvey Mackay

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. Newt Gingrich

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

If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you. Zig Ziglar

You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new. Steve Jobs

Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands. Zig Ziglar

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow. Ingvar Kamprad

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. Winston Churchill

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars — I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over. Warren Buffett

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. Les Brown Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is. Jimmy Carter

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford

Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once. Drew Houston

Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be. John Wooden

Without change there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. William Pollard

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision and relentlessly drive it to completion. Jack Welch of General Electric