99 Inspirational & Motivational Quotes On Entrepreneurship

by Mahesh Mohan on October 15, 2012 49 Comments

Inspirational Quotes & Motivational Quotes for Entrepreneurs

Are you an Entrepreneur? If so Ive mined the Internet for Best Quotes on Entrepreneurship to inspire and motivate you. Im sharing 99 of them which I liked the most. Please feel free to leave your valuable comments below and let me know what do you feel about the same! Recommended: 79 Investing Quotes by Warren Buffett

Famous Quotes on Entrepreneurship

1. I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that wont work. Thomas Edison 2. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. Vidal Sassoon 3. Business opportunities are like buses, theres always another one coming. Richard Branson 4. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn 5. An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping hell quickly learn how to chew it. Roy Ash 6. The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake you cant learn anything from being perfect. Adam Osborne 7. A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. John C. Maxwell

8. Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. E. Joseph Cossman 9. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein 10. You cant ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, theyll want something new. Steve Jobs 11. Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. Fortune Cookie 12. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. Maya Angelou 13. The most important thing in communication is to hear what isnt being said. Peter F. Drucker 14. If everything seems under control, youre just not going fast enough. Mario Andretti 15. If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then its moving you away from your goals. Brian Tracy 16. The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job. Michael Gerber 17. As long as youre going to be thinking anyway, think big. Donald Trump 18. Dont make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. Thomas J. Watson 19. The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. Silvio Berlusconi 20. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill 21. A mans worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 22. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Napoleon Hill 23. I dont know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby 24. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. Bill Cosby 25. Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. W. Clement Stone 26. Success is not in what you have, but who you are. Bo Bennet 27. Failure is not about insecurity. Its about lack of execution. Jeffrey Gitomer 28. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Henry Ford 29. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. - Napoleon Hill 30. Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. W. Clement Stone 31. Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. Jim Rohn 32. Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein 33. The best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter Drucker 34. You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. Robert Collier 35. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. John C. Maxwell

36. For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. Bo Bennett 37. Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. Natalie Clifford Barney 38. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill 39. I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. Henry Ford 40. You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. Zig Ziglar 41. Every choice you make has an end result. Zig Ziglar 42. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Jim Rohn 43. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. Mark Twain 44. Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking, Whats in it for me? Brian Tracy 45. A goal is a dream with a deadline. Napoleon Hill 46. Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. Peter Drucker 47. Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it. Napoleon Hill 48. The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. Ralph Nader 49. Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. Jim Rohn 50. Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. Dale Carnegie 51. All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. Napoleon Hill 52. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Napoleon Hill 53. The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. Confucius 54. One doesnt discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Andre Gide 55. Dont just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. - Jim Rohn 56. If you always do what youve always done, youll always get what youve always got! Alan Scott 57. Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare. Anon 58. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. Dale Carnegie 59. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Benjamin Franklin 60. If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. Zig Ziglar 61. The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. Jim Rohn 62. An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Ralph Waldo Emerson 63. There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley 64. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. Walt Disney 65. Id say its been my biggest problem all my life.. its money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. Walt Disney

66. Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. W. Clement Stone 67. Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. Napoleon Hill 68. Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. Jim Rohn 69. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates 70. If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. Jeff Bezos 71. Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. Tim Blixseth 72. Ive always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got. Alan Bond 73. Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you. Mark Cuban 74. Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. Thomas Carlyle 75. You wont get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it. John Lennon 76. Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. Jim Rohn 77. If everything seems under control, youre just not going fast enough. Mario Andretti 78. If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. W. Clement Stone 79. Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success Henry Ford 80. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have Zig Ziglar 81. The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. Colin R. Davis 82. Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. General George Patton 83. If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers. Bo Bennett 84. In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. David Ogilvy 85. Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. Zig Ziglar 86. In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 87. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. Cicero 88. Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. Napoleon Hill 89. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli 90. Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. Marion C. Garretty 91. Ive learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. Jack Welch 92. You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. Les Brown 93. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I cant accept not trying. Michael Jordan 94. Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. Jack Welch

95. If you dont have a competitive advantage, dont compete. Jack Welch 96. As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. James Cash Penney 97. Money wont make you happy but everybody wants to find out for themselves. Zig Ziglar 98. It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. James Cash Penney 99. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. Jim Rohn 100. Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people wont, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people cant. Unknown 101. You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity. From that love will come the dedication that will get you out of bed at 4 a.m. because of a great idea you just had and get you to work till 11 p.m. and not feel tired. Unknown 102. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein 103. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Albert Schweitzer 104. Whether you think you can or you cant, youre right. Henry Ford 105. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill 106. Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration. Thomas Edison 107. Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. Stephen R. Covey 108. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Jim Rohn