Inspirational Entrepreneurs Quotes to Motivate Them for Greatness. Running a successful ecommerce business requires a lot work, and some days you might feel like you won’t see the fruits of your labor.
That’s why we’ve gathered 30 inspiration quotes from BigCommerce merchants to help you push through rough patches and gray days to the brighter moment ahead.
We asked each merchant:
We hope you can draw inspiration from these quotes as you continue to build and grow your business.
1. Walt Disney:
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
2. 37 Signals:
Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let them guide you. Constraints drive innovation and force focus. Instead of trying to remove them, use them to your advantage.”
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Our chief want in life, is someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him, we are easily great.”
4. Robert H. Schuller:
Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
5. Oprah Winfrey:
Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.”
6. Unknown:
Remember why you started.”
7. Mandy Hale:
There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.”
8. Walt Disney:
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
9. Bo Schembechler:
The Team! The Team! The Team!”
10. Theodore Roosevelt:
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly, who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.”
11. Unknown:
You have to believe it before you see it.”
12. Steve Martin:
Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
13. Unknown:
Never underestimate the power of a t-shirt.”
14. Mahatma Gandhi:
Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
15. Roy Ash:
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.”
16. Mi On:
We all have things we must do that we don’t really care to do and things we must do that we don’t mind doing, then there’s the goofing off.”
17. Jon Acuff:
Dear entrepreneurs, you can start a thousand businesses, launch 100 projects, and take dozens of companies public, but you only have one shot at being part of your kid’s childhood. Your kid doesn’t care about your platform, they care about your presence.”
18. John A. Shedd:
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
19. Unknown:
If you don’t have big dreams and goals, you’ll end up working for someone that does.”
20. Thomas Edison:
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
21. Jeff Bezos:
Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.”
22. Drew Houston:
Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”
23. Jack Ma:
In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up.”
24. Warren Buffett:
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
25. Albert Einstein:
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
26. The Backroads Bosslady:
Don’t risk more than you can afford to lose!”
27. Abu Bakr:
Knowledge without action is meaningless”
28. Unknown:
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it.”
29. Marian Wright Edelman:
“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.”
