Whether you’re in the early stages of your start-up or looking for some inspiration to keep going, we’ve compiled 101 kickass quotes for entrepreneurs. Remember when starting your own company, it’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon.

Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing. – Abraham Lincoln

All of my friends were doing babysitting jobs. I wanted money without the job. – Adam Horwitz

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect. – Adam Osborne

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Agatha Christie

I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got. – Alan Bond

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got! – Alan Scott

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein

Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will. – Aleksandr Lebed

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneur will and spirit of the American people, somewhere else. – Allen West

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andre Gide

Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser’s excuse. – Andrew Fashion

Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare. – Anon

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. – Anonymous

If you’re not living life on the edge, you’re taking up too much space. – Anonymous

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. – Aristotle

The road to success is always under construction. – Arnold Palmer

We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality. – Arthur C. Brooks

Today’s developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise. – Arthur Erickson

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. – Babe Ruth

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% – still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work. – Barbara Corcoran

Everything started as nothing. – Ben Weissenstein

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby

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

Be nice to geek’s, you’ll probably end up working for one. – Bill Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates

Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Bennet

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. – Bo Bennett

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers. – Bo Bennett

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. – Booker T. Washington

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. – Brian Tracy

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking, What’s in it for me? – Brian Tracy

The longer you’re not taking action the more money you’re losing. – Carrie Wilkerson

If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions. – Catherine Cook

I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. – Charles Maurice

Leaders don’t force people to follow, they invite them on a journey. – Charles S. Lauer

A bad workman blames his tools. – Chinese Proverb

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Chinese Proverb

Failing to plan is planning to fail. – Chinese Proverb

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese Proverb

When you go to buy, don’t show your silver. – Chinese Proverb

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. – Cicero

If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock. – Claude McDonald

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin R. Davis

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

To win without risk is to triumph without glory. – Corneille

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. – Dale Carnegie

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

Ideas are worthless. – Dane Carlson

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

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

A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first. – Daymond John

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made. – Daymond John

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. – Derek Bok

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. – Donald Trump

I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement. – Donald Trump

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. – Dr. Napoleon Hill

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. – E. Joseph Cossman

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ‘Go!’ – a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’. – E. M. Kelly

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. – Earl Wilson

Go Big, or Go Home. – Eliza Dushku

Start today, not tomorrow. If anything, you should have started yesterday. – Emil Motycka

The biggest failure you can have in life is not trying at all. – Emil Motycka

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. – Fortune Cookie

If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken. – Gary Vaynerchuk

Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. – General George Patton

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. – George Burns

Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg

He who begins many things finishes but few. – German Proverb

It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. – Grace Hopper

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. – Henry Ford

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. – Henry Ford

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

Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford

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

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

If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete. – Jack Welch

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. – James Cash Penney

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. – James Cash Penney

Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. – Jeff Bezos

Failure is not about insecurity. It’s about lack of execution. – Jeffrey Gitomer

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. – Jim Rohn

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. – Jim Rohn

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. – Jim Rohn

Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. – Jim Rohn

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. – Jim Rohn

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. – Jim Rohn

The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place. – Jim Rohn

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. – Jim Rohn

Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it. – Joe Penna

If you think that you are going to love something, give it a try. You’re going to kick yourself in the butt for the rest of your life if you don’t. – Joe Penna

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is not started will never get finished. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. – John Baldacci

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell

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

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life. – John F. Kennedy

You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it. – John Lennon

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. – Joseph A. Schumpeter

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation. – Kevin Harrington

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. – Les Brown

When you cease to dream you cease to live. – Malcolm Forbes

I’ve been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies. – Marc Andreessen

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

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

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you. – Mark Cuban

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. – Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain

When I finished school, I took my entire life savings – $5,000 – and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke. – Mark Warner

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou

I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I’m doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points. – Michael Dunlop

If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there’s nothing lost. – Michael Dunlop

You’ve got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don’t work. – Michael Dunlop

The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job. – Michael Gerber

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching. – Mooie

A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. – Napoleon Hill

Anything the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. – Napoleon Hill

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

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. – Napoleon Hill

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill

If you’re not learning while you’re earning, you’re cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation. – Napoleon Hill

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. – Napoleon Hill

Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it. – Napoleon Hill

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. – Natalie Clifford Barney

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. – Nolan Bushnell

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. – Peter Drucker

The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. – Peter Drucker

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

Hire character. Train skill. – Peter Schultz

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. – Ray Kurzweil

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you’re confident that you’ll catch a bird flying by. It’s an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn’t come by, but a few times it does. – Reed Hastings

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. – Richard Branson

I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. – Robert Bosch

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. – Robert Collier

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work. – Robert Orben

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. – Robert T. Kiyosaki

There are two rules for success. 1) Never tell everything you know. – Roger H. Lincoln

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash

Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it. – Ryan Allis

Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease. – Ryan P. Allis

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. – Silvio Berlusconi

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

You should always stay hungry. Stay hungry, so you can eat. – Syed Balkhi

A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, ‘When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?’ I think it’s a great question. I’ll tell you, in my life I’ve never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. – Ted Cruz

Lend your friend $20. If he doesn’t pay you back then he’s not your friend. Money well spent. – Ted Nicolas

My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job. – Ted Turner

I’ve always been an entrepreneur, but it’s never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better. – Terry McAuliffe

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly, I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it. – Theodore Roosevelt

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. – Thomas Carlyle

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

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. – Thomas Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison

Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. – Thomas J. Watson

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Thomas J. Watson

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. – Thomas J. Watson

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. – Tim Blixseth

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money. – Tom Hooper

I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It’s a little easier when you have you’re an entrepreneur. – Tory Burch

If you ain’t making waves, you ain’t kickin’ hard enough. – Unknown

Its better to own the racecourse then the race horse. – Unknown

You don’t buy a nice car and get rich you get rich and buy a nice car. – Unknown

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes. – Victor Kiam

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

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. – W. Clement Stone

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. – W. Clement Stone

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. – W. Clement Stone

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. – W. Clement Stone

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

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney

I’ve been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn’t want a 9-5 job. – Will Estes

That’s a tough question; I’ve been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn’t want a 9-5 job. – Will Estes

Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. – Will Smith

Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there. – Will Smith

Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. – William B. Sprague

The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. – William James

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

Every choice you make has an end result. – Zig Ziglar

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

Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves. – Zig Ziglar

One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want. – Zig Ziglar

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have – Zig Ziglar

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. – Zig Ziglar

Best Entrepreneurship Quotes Ever

“Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.” — Ryan Freitas, About.me co-founder Click to Tweet

“Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.” —Angelo Sotira, deviantART co-founder Click to Tweet

“Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.” —Anthony Volodkin, Hype Machine founder Click to Tweet

“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.” —Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media founder and CEO Click to Tweet

“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.” —Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO Click to Tweet

“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.” —Jeffrey Zeldman, A List Apart Publisher Click to Tweet

“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” —Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO Click to Tweet

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” —Thomas Edison, General Electric Co-founder Click to Tweet

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” —Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder Click to Tweet

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” —Steve Jobs, Apple Inc. co-founder, chairman and CEO Click to Tweet

“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.” —Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA founder Click to Tweet

“Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.” —Mark Cuban, AXS TV chairman and entrepreneur Click to Tweet

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” —Scott Belsky, Behance co-founder Click to Tweet

“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.” —Jason Fried, 37signals founder Click to Tweet

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” —Drew Houston, Dropbox founder and CEO Click to Tweet

“Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.” —Mark Pincus, Zynga CEO Click to Tweet

“If there’s something you want to build, but the tech isn’t there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.” —Dennis Crowley, Foursquare co-founder Click to Tweet

“Fail often so you can succeed sooner.” —Tom Kelley, Ideo partner Click to Tweet

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.” —Joel Spolsky, Stack Overflow co-founder Click to Tweet

“It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.” —Edwin Land, Polaroid co-founder Click to Tweet

“We are currently not planning on conquering the world.” —Sergey Brin, Google co-founder Click to Tweet

“Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.” —Chris Dixon, Andreesen Horowitz investor Click to Tweet

“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.” —Paul Rand, Graphic Designer Click to Tweet

“It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.” —Paul Graham, YCombinator co-founder Click to Tweet

“If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.” —Ryan Freitas, About.me co-founder Click to Tweet

“Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.” —David Karp, Tumblr founder and CEO Click to Tweet

“Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.” —Michael Arrington, TechCrunch founder and co-editor Click to Tweet

“I don’t think an economic slump will hurt good ideas.” —Rob Kalin, Etsy founder Click to Tweet

“The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” —Rob Kalin, Etsy founder Click to Tweet

“Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.” —Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO Click to Tweet

“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” —Guy Kawasaki, Alltop co-founder and entrepreneur Click to Tweet

“Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.” —Joel Spolsky, Stack Overflow co-founder Click to Tweet

“I doubt I’ll ever go back to corporate work. Once you see the light, there is no turning back.” —Magnus Jepson, WooThemes co-founder Click to Tweet

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.” —Garrett Camp, founder of Expa, Uber and StumbleUpon Click to Tweet

“Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” —Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder Click to Tweet

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” —Seth Godin, Squidoo founder, author and blogger Click to Tweet

“When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’ " —Tom Preston-Werner, Github co-founder Click to Tweet

“Turn a perceived risk into an asset." —Aaron Patzer, Mint founder Click to Tweet

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.” —Bob Parsons, GoDaddy founder Click to Tweet

“Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.” —Jason Calacanis, LAUNCH Ticker founder Click to Tweet

“No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the week.” —Spencer Fry, CarbonMade co-founder Click to Tweet

“The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world." —Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO Click to Tweet

“I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.” —Jake Nickell, Threadless founder and CEO Click to Tweet

“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” —Larry Ellison, Oracle co-founder Click to Tweet

“If you’re going to put your product in beta – put your business model in beta with it.” —Joe Kraus, Google Ventures partner Click to Tweet

“You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.” —Peter Shankman, HARO founder Click to Tweet

“It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.” —Jason Cohen, Smart Bear Software founder Click to Tweet

“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.” —Noah Everett, Twitpic founder Click to Tweet

“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.” —Michael Dell, Dell chairman and CEO Click to Tweet

“Data beats emotions.” —Sean Rad, Adly and Tinder founder Click to Tweet

“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” —Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO Click to Tweet

“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” —Larry Page, Google co-founder Click to Tweet

“A ‘startup’ is a company that is confused about – 1. What its product is. 2. Who its customers are. 3. How to make money.”—Dave McClure, 500Startups co-founder Click to Tweet

“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” —Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder Click to Tweet

“All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.” —Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder Click to Tweet

“Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you – as entrepreneurs do.” —Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder Click to Tweet

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.” —Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder Click to Tweet

“The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.” —Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder Click to Tweet

“I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars — I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over.” —Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Click to Tweet

“In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.” —Steve Case, AOL co-founder Click to Tweet

“Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.” —Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO Click to Tweet

“Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.” —Sara Blakely, SPANX founder Click to Tweet

“What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.” —Dave Thomas, Founder, Wendy’s Click to Tweet

“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” —Donald Trump, The Trump Organization president Click to Tweet

“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.” —Henry Ford, Ford Motor Company founder Click to Tweet

“Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.” —Bruce Levin Click to Tweet

“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” —Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post Media Group president and EIC Click to Tweet

“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” —Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO Click to Tweet

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.” —Benjamin Franklin Click to Tweet

“You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.” —Steve Case, AOL co-founder Click to Tweet

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” —Walt Disney, Disney founder Click to Tweet

“A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” —Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures co-founder Click to Tweet

“We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.” —Pete Cashmore, Mashable founder and CEO Click to Tweet

“I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.” —Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder Click to Tweet

“Always deliver more than expected.” —Larry Page, Google co-founder Click to Tweet

“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” —Mary Kay Ash, Mary Kay Cosmetics founder Click to Tweet

“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.” —Richard Branson, Virgin Group founder Click to Tweet

“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.” —Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder Click to Tweet

“Even if you don’t have the perfect idea to begin with, you can likely adapt.” —Victoria Ransom, Wildfire Interactive co-founder Click to Tweet

“High expectations are the key to everything.” —Sam Walton, Walmart founder Click to Tweet

“Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.” —Ben Silbermann, Pinterest founder Click to Tweet

“You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.” —Russell Simmons, Def Jam founder Click to Tweet

“You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.” —Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder Click to Tweet

“Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don’t let the bastards get you down.” —Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg L.P. founder Click to Tweet

“Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself” —Oprah Winfrey, Harpo Productions, OWN founder Click to Tweet

“I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.” —Harland Sanders, KFC founder Click to Tweet

“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” —Caterina Fake, Flickr co-founder Click to Tweet

“Trust your instincts.” —Estee Lauder, Estee Lauder founder Click to Tweet

“There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world.” —Phil Libin, Evernote CEO Click to Tweet

“If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.” —Ray Kroc, McDonald’s founder Click to Tweet

“Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.” —James Cash Penney, J.C. Penney founder Click to Tweet

“Sustaining a successful business is a hell of a lot of work, and staying hungry is half the battle.” —Wendy Tan White, MoonFruit co-founder and CEO Click to Tweet

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” —Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder Click to Tweet

“If you define yourself by how you differ from the competition, you’re probably in trouble.” —Omar Hamoui, AdMob co-founder Click to Tweet

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” —Steve Jobs, Apple Inc. co-founder, chairman and CEO Click to Tweet

“If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” —Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder Click to Tweet

“Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” —Lisa Stone, BlogHer co-founder and CEO Click to Tweet

“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”—Pierre Omidyar, Ebay founder and chairman Click to Tweet

“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.” —Kyle Bragger, Forrst founder Click to Tweet

“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.” —Josh James, Omniture CEO and co-founder Click to Tweet

“An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.” —Edwin Land, Polaroid co-founder Click to Tweet

Famous Quotes on Entrepreneurship

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

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

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect. – Adam Osborne

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

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. - E. Joseph Cossman

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein

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

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. – Fortune Cookie

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou

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

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

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. – Brian Tracy

The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job. – Michael Gerber

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. – Donald Trump

Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. – Thomas J. Watson

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. – Silvio Berlusconi

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

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

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. –Bill Cosby

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

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. – W. Clement Stone

Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Bennet

Failure is not about insecurity. It’s about lack of execution. – Jeffrey Gitomer

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. – Henry Ford

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. - Napoleon Hill

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. –W. Clement Stone

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. – Jim Rohn

Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein

The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. – Robert Collier

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. – Bo Bennett

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. – Natalie Clifford Barney

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

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

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. – Zig Ziglar

Every choice you make has an end result. – Zig Ziglar

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. – Mark Twain

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking, What’s in it for me? – Brian Tracy

A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. – Peter Drucker

Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it. – Napoleon Hill

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. – Jim Rohn

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. – Dale Carnegie

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. – Napoleon Hill

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

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

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andre Gide

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. - Jim Rohn

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got! –Alan Scott

Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare. – Anon

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

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin

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

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. – Jim Rohn

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. –Christopher Morley

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney

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

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. – W. Clement Stone

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. – Napoleon Hill

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. – Jim Rohn

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. – Jeff Bezos

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. – Tim Blixseth

I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got. - Alan Bond

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you. – Mark Cuban

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. – Thomas Carlyle

You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it. – John Lennon

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. – Jim Rohn

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

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. – W. Clement Stone

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success – Henry Ford

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have – Zig Ziglar

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin R. Davis

Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. – General George Patton

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers. – Bo Bennett

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

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. – Cicero

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. – Napoleon Hill

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. –Benjamin Disraeli

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. –Marion C. Garretty

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

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. – Les Brown

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. –Michael Jordan

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

If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete. – Jack Welch

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. – James Cash Penney

Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves. – Zig Ziglar

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. – James Cash Penney

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn

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

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

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. – Albert Einstein

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

Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill

Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration. – Thomas Edison

Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. –Stephen R. Covey

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Rohn

Great Entrepreneurial Quotes

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

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.”
– Anonymous

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning – to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki,
Entrepreneur, Investor, Author

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– Mark Twain,
Author

Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.”
– Thomas Edison,
Inventor and Scientist

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?”
– Robert Schuller,
Televangelist and Pastor

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.”
– Ken Field,
Real Estate Magnate

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”– Theodore Roosevelt,
26th President of the United States

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
– Albert Einstein,
Theoretical Physicist

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,
Theologian, Organist, Philosopher

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
– Winston Churchill,
British Politician

Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.”
– Henry Ford,
American Industrialist

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
– Napoleon Hill,
Author

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
– Vince Lombardi,
NFL Coach

Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.”
– Chinese Proverb

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree I would spend six hours sharpening my axe.”
– Abraham Lincoln,
16th President of the United States

Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.”
– Yoda,
Jedi Master

Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”
– Stephen R. Covey,
Author

Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
– Confucius ,
Thinker and Philosopher

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Writer and Poet

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
– Jim Rohn,
Entrepreneur, Author, Speaker

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”
– Richard Branson,
British Industrialist

Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Pablo Picasso,
Spanish Painter

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle and a victory.”
– Mahatma Gandhi,
Political and Spiritual Leader

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.”
– John F. Kennedy,
35th President of the United States

Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.”
– Anonymous

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.”
– Donald Trump,
Real Estate and Entertainment Mogul

The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities.”
– Michael Gerber,
Author and Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.”
– Roy Ash,
California State Senator

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect.”
– Adam Osborne,
American Author

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,
Author and Speaker

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
– Albert Einstein,
Theoretical Physicist

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
– Donald Trump,
Real Estate and Entertainment Mogul

Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
– Thomas J. Watson,
President of IBM

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill,
British Politician

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
– Bill Cosby,
Comedian, Actor, Author

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
– John C. Maxwell,
Author and Speaker

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”
– Zig Ziglar,
Author and Speaker

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
– Jim Rohn,
Entrepreneur, Author, Speaker

A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
– Napoleon Hill,
Author

Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare.”
– Chinese Proverb

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
– Walt Disney,
Director, Writer, Producer, Animator, Entrepreneur

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
– Bill Gates,
American Business Magnate and Philanthropist

I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got.”
– Alan Bond,
Australian Businessman

Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.”
– General George Patton,
US War Commander

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
– Michael Jordan,
Professional Basketball Player

Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.”
– Zig Ziglar,
Author and Speaker

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.”
– Harry Truman,
33rd President of the United States

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don’t! If you want to win, but think you can’t, It’s almost a cinch you won’t. If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost; For out in the world, we find success begins with a fellow’s will; it’s all in the state of the mind. Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger and faster man, but sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.”
– Walter D. Wintle,
American Poet

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