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 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 isn’t being said. – Peter F. Drucker
14. If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti
15. If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s 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 you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. – Donald Trump
18. Don’t 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 man’s 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 don’t 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. It’s 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, What’s 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 doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andre Gide
55. Don’t 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 you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve 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. 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 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. I’ve 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 won’t 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, you’re 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. I’ve 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 can’t 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 don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t 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 won’t 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 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 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