21 Top Thought-Provoking Quotes to Encourage Successful Business Owners—The Marketing Copyologist?

Running a business is hard. Period.

It takes an immense amount of dedication, focus, hard work, and time to run a successful business. There are days that the task seems incredibly daunting and that pushing forward seems impossible.

But small businesses make up the backbone of our country, and as we near the New Year, we want to remind you that we’re grateful for your hard work and dedication.

So, when you start to feel stressed, here's a list of our 23 favorite quotes to help keep you inspired, motivated, and grateful every day.

1. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”— Steve Jobs

2. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein

3. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates

4. “The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” – Oprah Winfrey

5. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” – Mark Twain

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

7. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey

8. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.”  —James Cameron

10. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

11. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” – George Bernard Shaw

12. “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” – Theodore Roosevelt

13. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

14. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates

15. “I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling

16. “The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.” – Tal Ben Shahar

17. “If you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything.” – Malcolm X

18. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” – Warren Buffett

19. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” – Swami Vivekananda

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

21. “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Jack Kerouac

22. "Prosperity is achieved by taking the risk of failure!"—Roger Dextor

23. "There's no better exercise for the heart than reaching down and lifting someone up—even a perfect stranger!"—Andrew S. Linick, Ph.D.

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