It’s no secret that running a business can be quite a challenge. However, business owners are those that say, “Challenge accepted!” They have an option of accepting the “9 to 5” life that their peers have so accepted. But, they choose to not follow the beaten path and believe in blazing their own trail. However occasionally, even the toughest of the business owners may feel bogged down by the pressure. It is for moments like these that motivational quotes are for! They not only cheer us up, but also inspire us to not give up. Success is just around the corner. Here are some inspirational quotes from successful personalities, we all are aspiring to be some day.

“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”
-Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO Amazon

“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.”
– Sir Richard Branson, founder Virgin Group

“Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.”
– Sara Blakely, founder SPANX

“You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.”
– Steve Case, co-founder AOL

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
- Thomas Edison, American inventor & businessman

“Failure is not the opposite of success. It is the stepping stone to success.”
– Arianna Huffington, Editor-in-Chief of Huffington Post

“I learned to be as open about my failure with my friends and family as I was willing to be about my successes.”
– Christina Wallace, Three-time entrepreneur and VP of growth at Bionic

“I think the best companies are those that can recognize when something isn’t going right, and fix it, instead of just turning a blind eye because it’s easier.”
– Ben Lerer, Founder of Thrillist Media Group

“If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.”
– Brian Tracy, CEO Brian Tracy International

“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”
-Bo Bennett, founder eBookit.com

“Failure is not about insecurity, it’s about lack of execution.”
– Jeffery Gitomer, Business trainer

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
-Bill Gates, founder and CEO Microsoft

“You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”
– Steve Jobs, founder, chairman and CEO Apple Inc.

“That fear of failure motivates me more than anything."
– Mark Cuban, serial entrepreneur, owner of Dallas Mavericks and star of ABC’s Shark Tank.

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”
– Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO Dropbox

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill, Renowned British statesman, army officer, and writer

“Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.”
- Vinod Khosla, founder, Sun Microsystems and President of Khosla Ventures

“Fail often so you can succeed sooner.”
– Tom Kelley, founder Ideo

“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect”
– Adam Osborne, Book and software publisher and inventor of the first commercially available portable computer

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently… A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”
-Henry Ford, founder Ford Motor Company

“I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.”
– Jack Welch, chairman and CEO General Electric

“Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.”
– William Rosenberg, founder Dunkin’ Donuts

“The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.”
– Marc Benioff, CEO Salesforce

“When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.”
-Robert Kiyosaki, founder Cashflow Technologies Inc.

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
-Napoleon Hill, Author of Think and Grow Rich, one of the 10 best-selling self-help books of all time

We hope that these motivational quotes keep you inspired to keep working towards meeting your business goals. Do you have a quote that has motivated you? We would love to hear it! Share it with us in the comments section below.

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