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45 Business Quotes to Live, Work and Play By

Here are 45 quotes that every entrepreneur and small business owner can live, work and play by.

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22. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” – Peter F. Drucker
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23. “Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” – Zig Ziglar
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24. “In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two.” – Lee Iacocca
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25. “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
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26. “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.” – Ray Kroc
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27. “To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art.” – Chinese Proverb
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28. “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
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29. “Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” – Warren Buffett
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30. “You can’t do today’s job with yesterday’s methods and be in business tomorrow.” – Author Unknown
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31. “The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.” – Warren Buffett
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32. “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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33. “It’s better to hang out with people better than you, … Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.” – Warren Buffett
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34. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein
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35. “Roll with the punches. Tomorrow is another day.” – Jerry Maguire
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36. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
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37. “The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.” – Author Unknown
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38. “I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.” – Barbara Corcoran (Tweet this!)

39. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. – Dale Carnegie
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40. “Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process.” – Anthony Robbins
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41. “It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” – Dale Carnegie
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42. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
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43. “We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.” – Anne Frank
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44. “Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.” – Horace
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45. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
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Bonus: “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. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

 

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