Running A Business Quotes

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  It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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  Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

  Babe Ruth

  Motivational, Inspiring, Running

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• I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Excerpts from an Oral History Interview with Daniel Morrow: "Advice for Future Entrepreneurs", americanhistory.si.edu. April 20, 1995.

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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Running, Business, Entrepreneur

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

  Confucius

  Life, Business, Philosophical

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• My number one rule in business, and in life, is to enjoy what you do. Running a business involves long hours and hard decisions; if you don't have the passion to keep you going, your business will more than likely fail. If you don't enjoy what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Passion, Numbers

  "Richard Branson’s Three Most Important Leadership Principles". Interview with Dan Schawbel, www.mittimes.com. September 25, 2014.

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• When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.

  Christian Siriano

  Running, Helping Someone, Adults

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I want a lot of young people to see me in my working environment. I want them to see me being a good person while also running a business. I want young people to aspire to that.

  Zendaya

  Running, People, Want

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Running

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• Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

  Carly Fiorina

  Running, Business, Opportunity

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• Running a business is not the same as being president of the United States.

  Rick Santorum

  Running, President, United States

  "Rick Santorum: ‘Running A Business Is Not The Same As Being President Of The United States’" by Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2012.

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• I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

  Lori Greiner

  Running, Thinking, Nuts

  "Think You Can Pitch? Creatives Break Down Their Art". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 31, 2012.

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• Producing is very much like running a business, where you find the project, you find the different people involved, you put the elements together, and you make sure they all work together well.

  Catherine Bell

  Running, People, Working Together

  "Catherine Bell Exclusive Interview Last Man Standing and Army Wives". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2011.

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• I never wanted to run a production company. I didn't want to convert my life into running a business.... so I always resisted it and kept things simple.

  Anne Robinson

  Running, Simple, Want

  "Anne Robinson: 'I was paid £300 a week for Points of View, now I'm worth £30m'". Interview with Roz Lewis, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2015.

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• There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.

  James A. Garfield

  Loyalty, Running, Kindness

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• I think you have to humble yourself before the process of starting and running a business. Only the incredibly fortunate achieve their success quickly. Most people, it takes many many years of incredible hard work, and many periods of severe poverty, and it kind of makes it all the better.

  Patrick Grant

  Running, Hard Work, Humble

  "Recognize Craftsmanship". Interview with Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com. October 8, 2013.

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• My expertise is running businesses.

  Amit Bhatia

  Running, Expertise

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• I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business. Remember many new businesses do not make it and running a business will be a tough experience, involving long hours and many hard decisions - it helps to have that passion to keep you going.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Passion, Successful

  "Gentleman's Journal" Interview, www.thegentlemansjournal.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Running a business without marketing will kill it.

  Paul Cookson

  Running, Marketing

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• When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for... getting attention is not a bad thing. And letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary what the facts are is not a bad thing.

  Brit Hume

  Running, Thinking, Years

  "Extended Interview: Brit Hume". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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