Entrepreneur Quotes
As an entrepreneur the most important tool you have is your mind because without it, you cannot solve problems or make good decisions. Being an entrepreneur means that you fully embrace ambiguity and are comfortable with being challenged regularly.
Entrepreneurship can be a tough path. You need constant motivation to overcome the hurdles and difficult times. Read through our collection of entrepreneur quotes to motivate yourself to stay strong and focused.
60 Inspirational Quotes For Entrepreneurs
“One of the most important things I have learned is that businesses don’t fail, entrepreneurs give up. Now sometimes, giving up is the right decision. But usually you just need to dig in and figure out how to make things better. Remember: Every day is a new opportunity to get up and do it better than yesterday!” – Adda Birnir
“You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.” -Jessica Herrin
“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
“Ignore the hype of the startups that you see in the press. Mostly, it’s a pack of lies. Half of these startups will be dead in a year. So, focus on building your business so you can be the one left standing.” -Jules Pieri
“The stars will never align, and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.” — Tim Ferriss
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
“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
“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
-Jeff Bezos
“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
“Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”– David Karp
“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”-Howard Schultz
“There are 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
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates
“The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”– Debbi Fields
“Empower yourself and realize the importance of contributing to the world by living your talent. Work on what you love. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.”– Catharina Bruns
A little progress each day adds up to big results. – Unknown
“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender, it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” – Stephen Covey
“My best advice to entrepreneurs is this: Forget about making mistakes, just do it.” – Ajaero Tony Martins
“It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business.” – Mark Cuban
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”– Steve Jobs
“Have the end in mind and every day make sure you’re working towards it.”-Ryan Allis
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.” – Lisa Lieberman-Wang
“Success depends on employees. For me knowing and connecting with my employees is very important.” -Divine Ndhlukula
“The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”
– Reid Hoffman
– Reid Hoffman
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
“ Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”– Steve Jobs
“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
“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”
-Josh James
-Josh James
“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”– Seth Godin
“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
“Everything started as nothing.”– Ben Weissenstein
“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
Stop doubting yourself. Work hard and make it happen. – Unknown
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. – Maya Angelou
“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
“Failure is just a resting place. It is an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
“What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.” – Simon Sinek
“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”– Pierre Omidyar
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”– Winston Churchill
“Don’t get distracted. Never tell yourself that you need to be the biggest brand in the whole world. Start by working on what you need at the present moment and then what you need to do tomorrow. So, set yourself manageable targets.” -Jas Bagniewski
“It’s important to realize that brand is much more than a logo and slogan. A brand is who your company is: how you function and make decisions.” -Joanna McFarland
“Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.” — Anthony Volodkin
“Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” — Golda Meir
“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
“Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” — Biz Stone
“It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.” — Jason Cohen
“All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.” — Reid Hoffman
“Don’t let others convince you that the idea is good when your gut tells you it’s bad.” -Kevin Rose
“Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” — Lisa Stone
“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.” — Bob Parsons
“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.” — Noah Everett
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown
“Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.” — Jason Calacanis
“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.” — Lakshmi Mittal
“Nothing works better than just improving your product.” — Joel Spolsky
“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
“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.” — Zig Ziglar
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”- Warren Buffett
“When you are building a startup, it’s difficult. Particularly, a startup that is expanding at the rate of Tinder. You have to give 100%, and you have to be committed. Solving the problem has to be personal or else you’re going to disintegrate.” -Sean Rad
“The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.”– Marc Benioff