Richard Branson Quotes

I have gone through some bad times with my own business. At one point, I was working my socks off, driving, delivering, baking. It was hard, hard work. But I worked through it. Running your own bakery is hard. I never came close to bankruptcy, but I had to cut back on staff.

Running your own business is a huge amount of fun, but there's also a huge amount of seriousness, so actually, they level out.

You need that hunger no matter what, because eventually the honeymoon period wears off. Somewhere between printing your business cards that say 'founder' on them and everything else you have to do, you realize, 'Oh, actually this is a ton of work.'

Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it.

When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally.

People don't know how hard it is to have your own business.

Starting my business has been very hard work. I have received no help from any officials at all.

As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.

I know first-hand how hard it is to start a business. Those first few years are rough.

Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.

I also know, as an entrepreneur myself, you face new obstacles every day and you need to have the perseverance to see them through.

It's a given that if you start your own business, you're going to be (1) in control of your destiny, and (2) real busy.

Business is hard, really hard, but it's worth it.

If you talk to anyone involved in business - forget banks and big business - talk to small businesses - do it yourself, don't ask me - they'll tell you it's crippling. Small-business formation is the lowest it has ever been in a recovery, and it's really for two reasons. One is regulations and the second is access to capital for people starting new businesses.

Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining

The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.

Being an entrepreneur does, of course, give you greater freedom than someone who is tied to a fixed work schedule, but you'd be mistaken to think that you're going to have it easier than your 9-5 counterparts.

We need to see many more people starting businesses and becoming their own boss, but the squeezed middle exists as much within this group as in the population at large as rising costs are hitting small businesses - who after all are consumers too.

My father built a small manufacturing business. I worked alongside him and saw firsthand the challenges that business owners face.

Running a business is incredibly hard, especially as a creative person, because you're extricated from the creative very quickly, and that is really hard. Obviously, I have experienced that first hand.

The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.

I think you have to be when you own your own business. I'm looking at the new No Limit as being a legacy. It's incredible that we've been able to build this up and survive over ten years and we are doing the right thing by maintaining.