Starting and growing a business can be tough. It can be a confusing and lonely grind.
All the tools, services and advice available can act as a hindrance rather than help, muddying the waters, obscuring the clear way forward.
Sometimes a little inspiration can help. Here are some words of wisdom that might do the job.
Whenever you see a successful business,
someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art.
Chinese Proverb
“You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
Steve Jobs
“You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event – it is a habit.”
Aristotle
”One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’ t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”
“We will either find a way, or make one.”
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“High achievement always takes place in a framework of high expectation.”
Jack Kinder
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.”
When everyone is looking for gold, it’s a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.
“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.”
