99 Inspirational & Motivational Quotes On Entrepreneurshipby Mahesh Mohan on October 15, 2012 49 Comments

Inspirational Quotes & Motivational Quotes for Entrepreneurs

Are you an Entrepreneur? If so I’ve mined the Internet for Best Quotes on Entrepreneurship to inspire and motivate you. I’m 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!

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Famous Quotes on Entrepreneurship

1. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison

2. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon

3. Business opportunities are like buses, there’s 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 he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash

6. The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t 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 can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new. – Steve Jobs

11. Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. – Fortune Cookie12. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya

Angelou13. The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. –

Peter F. Drucker14. If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario

Andretti15. If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving

you away from your goals. – Brian Tracy16. The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job. – Michael

Gerber17. As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. – Donald Trump18. Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will

force you to lever yourself up. – Thomas J. Watson19. The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all

in one word: freedom. – Silvio Berlusconi20. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston

Churchill21. A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. – Marcus Aurelius

Antoninus22. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill23. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please

everybody. – Bill Cosby24. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of

failure. – Bill Cosby25. Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. –

W. Clement Stone26. Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Bennet27. Failure is not about insecurity. It’s about lack of execution. – Jeffrey Gitomer28. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together

is success. – Henry Ford29. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of

selfishness. -  Napoleon Hill30. Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to

be. – W. Clement Stone31. Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than

you promised and easier than you said. – Jim Rohn32. Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. –

Albert Einstein33. The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker34. You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be

anything you wish to be. – Robert Collier35. 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 Ziglar42. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn43. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. – Mark Twain44. Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.

Unsuccessful people are asking, What’s in it for me? – Brian Tracy45. A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill46. Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. – Peter Drucker47. Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it. – Napoleon Hill48. The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. –

Ralph Nader49. Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about

what you know. – Jim Rohn50. Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. – Dale Carnegie51. All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. – Napoleon

Hill52. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. – Napoleon

Hill53. The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. –

Confucius54. One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for

a very long time. – Andre Gide55. Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never

grow from it. - Jim Rohn56. If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve

always got! – Alan Scott57. Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare. –

Anon58. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale

Carnegie59. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement,

achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin60. If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind

before you actually arrive at your goal. – Zig Ziglar61. The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. – Jim Rohn62. An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. – Ralph Waldo Emerson63. 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 Disney65. I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life.. it’s 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 Gates70. If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of

mouth is very powerful. – Jeff Bezos71. Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas.

One without the other is worthless. – Tim Blixseth72. I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got. -

Alan Bond73. Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your

customers buying from them, not you. – Mark Cuban74. Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. – Thomas Carlyle75. You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it. – John

Lennon76. Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one

more good idea. – Jim Rohn77. If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario

Andretti78. If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. – W. Clement Stone79. Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together

is success – Henry Ford80. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have – Zig Ziglar81. The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin

R. Davis82. Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. – General George Patton83. If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something

with the answers. – Bo Bennett84. In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker

unless you can also sell what you create. – David Ogilvy85. Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. –

Zig Ziglar86. In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all

rests on perseverance. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe87. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. – Cicero88. Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. –

Napoleon Hill89. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it

comes. – Benjamin Disraeli90. Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

– Marion C. Garretty91. I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. – Jack

Welch92. You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. – Les Brown93. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. –

Michael Jordan94. Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. – Jack Welch

95. If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete. – Jack Welch96. As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. – James

Cash Penney97. Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for

themselves. – Zig Ziglar98. It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. – James Cash Penney99. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

– Jim Rohn100. Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people

won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t. – 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 can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford105. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –

Napoleon Hill106. Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration. – Thomas Edison107. Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best

customers. – Stephen R. Covey108. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. –

Jim Rohn