Running a business is hard work, and it can be easy to get down or lose your motivation. With that in mind, here are 20 qoutes I have appreciated. I hope you find them insightful! I highlighted a few that stood out to me (and I threw in a few funny ones for good measure).

If you know of any other good quotes please add them in the comments.

1. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Norman Schwarzkopf
2. A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. – Unknown
3. You are not your resume, you are your work. – Seth Godin
4. Beware of any enterprise requiring new clothes. – Henry Thoreau
5. One finds limits by pushing them. – Herbert Simon
6. If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late. – James Goldsmith
7. Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson
8. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
9. You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong. – Warren Buffett
10. The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. – Carlos Castaneda
11. There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them. – Seth Godin
12. The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. – Thomas J. Watson
13. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. – Albert Einstein
14. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. – Theodore Roosevelt
15. Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is. – Seth Godin
16. Even if you are on the right track, You’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers
17. You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. – Jim Rohn
18. Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day. – Francis Gray
19. Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. – Albert Einstein
20. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight Eisenhower