Business Hardship Quotes

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It's really sad.

Every business will face tough times.

Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.

I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.

Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.

I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible thing to do.

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.

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

Maybe it's whiner's fatigue, but I'm getting tired of hearing about how hard it is to start a company and be a CEO. It's not that hard.

I don't know a startup that hasn't been through tough times.

Dick understands what I go through. He understands the difficulty and the brutality of the business.

This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

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

Business is tough, and the fashion industry is particularly tough.

It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.

I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.

Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession.

There's no way I know, to get through the pain of a startup without belief that the mission really matters.

For small businesses in Kansas and across the country, the coronavirus has the potential to cause devastating financial hardship that would have a ripple effect throughout our economy. These businesses make up the backbone of our communities, and we have to ensure they are properly supported and protected.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

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.

Almost nothing can make you more miserable than when your company is struggling, and only then do you realize that this is exactly when it's almost impossible for a CEO to quit.

It saddens me to see the entrepreneurial world in Brazil, because it's a misfortune to be a boss in our country, with so many labor laws.