Quotes on Business Owners

There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors. To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game. The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.

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.

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.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

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.

The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

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

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

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.

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

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

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.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.