Starting a business is never easy. Competition is tough, and you’ll have your ups and downs. Sometimes, though, those downs seem to last forever, and it’s important to remember, there’s always light at the end of tunnel. I’ve put together a list of a few quotes that I refer to, when things just can’t seem to get worst. They usually make me feel better, and help me through to the hard time to the times where I’m proud to say, I’m a business owner…
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
Vince Lombardi
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There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
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We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.
Samuel Smiles
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All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Henry David Thoreau
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Do not judge bt perfomance bt on potentiality
Your quotes were helpful. I use the Confucius quote on my blog. My post gives six tips for starting an online business, not from someone who is an expert, because I am not. But from the point of view of a novice.
Good quotes.
How about:
“If it was easy, any schmuck would do it.”
– Dr. Paul Bernstein
Louie awesome quote! I’ll save it to my list.