Small Business Owner Quotes

“Every business has its own story and its own personality.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Your confidence, competence and belief will sustain you through the fear, uncertainty and doubt you will face. Knowing with everything you are, that you can do it.”
― Sarah Gerdes, The Overlooked Expert

“The Best Marketing Is Education!”
― Nylus Stanton, Viral-Marketing Professor: The Best Marketing Is Education!

“The greater the meaning behind your business, the harder it becomes to communicate it to the world.”
― Gregory V. Diehl, Brand Identity Breakthrough: How to Craft Your Company's Unique Story to Make Your Products Irresistible

“As a small business owner, you must sell or you will go out of business. Therefore, you must prospect (it's an integral part of the process). You have to bring people to your business, not just wait for them to show up.”
― Diane Helbig, Lemonade Stand Selling: Accelerate Your Small Business Growth

“Social Media Strategy isn't rocket science...but it might as well be if you don't know what you're doing.”
― Sherree Mongrain

“Hidden skills and knowledge are the essence of a successful small business or consulting firm. Unlease and leverage what is locked inside your head to help others while help yourself.”
― Sarah Gerdes, The Overlooked Expert

“The Overlooked Expert is the person who's fully capable of starting and running a profitable business.”
― Sarah Gerdes, The Overlooked Expert

“Where one sees a dead end, another sees a freeway without a speed limit. That's what separates the entrepreneur or small business owner from the rest of the world.”
― Sarah Gerdes, The Overlooked Expert

“No marketing technique is complete without a comprehensive understanding of your ideal client.”
― Patrick McFadden

“Everyone has a boss, and a business owner's boss is their customers.”
― Sabrina Newby

“Everyone has a boss, and a business owner's boss is the customer.”
― Sabrina Newby

“Always say something good about other people”
― André Camp, How To Get SECRET MONEY

“The small stores are holding the one card that large retailers cannot, personal service. A clean bathroom, lounge chairs, and a sympathetic ear concerning weight gain, sagging skin, and "batwing" arms round it all off.
C.L. McManus, Adventures in Small Business”
― C.L. McManus, Adventures in Small Business: The surprising humor and realities in owning and running a small retail store.

“Owning a small business is like getting married. You're in it for the long haul, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer. And like marriage, there's a learning curve. You learn it's best to keep your mouth shut more often than not.”
― C.L. McManus, Adventures in Small Business: The surprising humor and realities in owning and running a small retail store.

“Running a small business is a lot like spinning a roulette wheel. You can win big, you could lose everything, or maybe you'll do ok. The problem is, even after you've landed on a good space, you MUST take another spin at the wheel. On a particular day in March 2020, the wheel landed on Covid-19.”
― C.L. McManus, Adventures in Small Business: The surprising humor and realities in owning and running a small retail store.

“My expectations were pretty conventional regarding opening, operating, and ultimately closing my small store. I certainly didn't expect much emotion, nor did I expect that the faces, voices and stories would stay with me a lifetime, but they will. In reality, I ran the scale of emotions. Every significant interaction changed me. Though you can say that about most anything in life, these moments combined were, for me, truly "life-changing." My lifetime of annoyingly repetitive prayers was for exactly what I was to receive by operating that little store. I had an about-face with confidence, and although my patience will probably never be perfect, it went from a two to maybe a seven?”
― C.L. McManus, Adventures in Small Business: The surprising humor and realities in owning and running a small retail store.

“The tears the laughs the lessons learned
The products bought and then returned
The skin that was thin
Is now like buckskin
A degree in resilience well-earned”
― C.L. McManus, Adventures in Small Business: The surprising humor and realities in owning and running a small retail store.

“While Amanda Moran was unemployed during the Pandemic, she stayed home with her 3 sons, who were all participating in virtual learning. This is when she started Mama Nose Best and then decided to go back to school to study to be a Paralegal. It was a hard time for her, and she had to face many fears. Amanda Moran did the only thing she could at the time, she rose to the challenge!”
― Amanda Moran Baltimore