Running a business can ignite spikes of exhilarating joy as well as phenomenal dips of depression, depending how your niche market is profitable at that particular moment. However, there will be times when you’ll be scared and feel powerless. There’s some bad days where there isn’t much you can do, other than to get motivated.

So in this case, here are 50 quotes that will motivate you to push forward.

1. The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. – Nolan Bushnell

2. The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. – Dennis Waitley

3. 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. – Debbi Fields

4. Life is too complicated not to be orderly. – Martha Stewart

5. The golden rule for every business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place. – Orison Swett Marden

6. I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them! – C.J. Walker

7. My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job. – Ted Turner

8. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Norman Schwarzkopf

9. Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson

10. Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg

11. Business is more exciting than any game. – Lord Beaverbrook

12. 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

13. It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by — Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. – Ren Mulford Jr.

14. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. – Albert Einstein

15. We are currently not planning on conquering the world. – Sergey Brin

16. For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. – Bill O’ Reilly

17. To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth

18. If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. – Bill Rancic

19. A man should never neglect his family for business. – Walt Disney
The only limits are, as always, those of vision. – James Broughton

20. I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. – Donald Trump

21. Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading: buying and selling. – Anita Roddick

22. To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. – Tryon Edwards

23. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates

24. Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel

25. The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. – Henry Ford

26. The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. – Epictetus

27. I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making. – B.C. Forbes

28. The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything”. I say, “Only one man can do anything.” – John W. Gardner

29. I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. – Oprah Winfrey

30. If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. – Ingvar Kamprad

31. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations. – Steve Jobs

32. You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance. – Lee Iacocca

33. The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. – Laurence Sterne

34. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. – David Rockefeller

35. Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman. – George Soros

36. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight Eisenhower

37. If you did not look after today’s business then you might as well forget about tomorrow. – Isaac Mophatlane

38. The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. – Thomas J. Watson

39. Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. – Babe Ruth

40. Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing. – Magic Johnson

41. Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. – James Thurber

42. The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. – Carlos Castaneda

43. The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. – Blaine Lee

44. To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. – George Kneller

45. To the degree we’re not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. – Peter McWilliams

46. The enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth-persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. – John F. Kennedy

47. Long-range planning works best in the short term. – Doug Evelyn

48. The NBA is never just a business. It’s always business. It’s always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal. – Mark Cuban

49. You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. – Joseph E. Levine

50. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. – Richard Branson

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