10 inspiring quotes for starting your own business

Starting your own business is a very risky endeavor that requires endurance and skill. After all, it involves both ups and downs. The main thing is not to give up, as even the most famous and successful figures in the business world have experienced failures and setbacks. But despite this, they managed to achieve success. So why not learn from the best? We present to you 10 inspiring quotes from famous people around the world.

1. American businessman and billionaire Donald Trump said, “There is nothing more criminal to financial well-being than coming up with a great idea and failing to implement it.”
2. Former ITT Corporation executive Harold Geneen said, “In the business world, there are two types of profit: cash and experience. Seek experience first, and cash will follow.”
3. Former IBM president Thomas J. Watson said, “If you want to achieve success, your heart must be in your business, and your business must be in your heart.”
4. James Goodnight, American researcher, founder, and CEO of SAS believed that “The key to business success is innovation, which in turn is born from creativity.”
5. Steve Jobs, the legendary founder of Apple, believed: “There’s no point in hiring smart people and then telling them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”
6. “A good decision is the result of experience. And experience is the result of bad decisions.” – believed Walter Wriston, American financial manager and Citicorp executive
7. American steel magnate, multimillionaire, and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie said: “No one will rise to the top who does not do what they are told or who does not do more than what they are told.”

However, we should not forget about Ukrainian businessmen who have managed to achieve success and overcome difficulties.

1. For instance, Oksana Seredyuk, a well-known restaurateur and co-owner of the Mafia restaurant chain says: “Any crisis is a time for new opportunities, a chance to accumulate your strengths and find new ways of development. It is necessary to know how to negotiate – with suppliers, landlords, doing everything possible to reduce dependence on economic and socio-political upheavals.”
2. Yevhen Romashin, CEO of Corum Group believes that “Achievements beget achievements. For result-oriented people, new achievements are the main motivation.”
3. And I would like to conclude this inspiring collection with the words of Oleh Zakhorolskyi, founder of the enterprise “ZIP”: “We understand that we ourselves create the reality in which we live and work. Each of us creates a wonderful, bright world in our hearts, in our souls, in our families, in our teams – this is how we change the whole world!”

May these quotes inspire you and help you understand that on the path to success – any setback is just another reason to keep moving forward!