Entrepreneurship is tough. It’s a craft that continuously teaches you new things along your journey. There are highs, there are lows. No matter where you are as an entrepreneur, you need to learn from others. We all need inspiration and ideas from others that help kick us into a higher gear.
Here are 155 inspiring business quotes that will motivate you as an entrepreneur.
1. Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” – William Durant
2. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
3. “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
4. “Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” – Frederick B Wilcox
5. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams
6. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.CLICK TO TWEET
8. “But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid.” – Arianna Huffington
9. “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar
10. “You are not your resume, you are your work.” – Seth Godin
11. “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it – teach yourself to be impatient.” – Gurbaksh Chahal
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret ThatcherCLICK TO TWEET
13. “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” – Bernice Johnson Reagon
14. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure … but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” – Francis Chan
15. “In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.” – Jane Smiley
16. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
17. “You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance.” – Lee Iacocca
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim RyunCLICK TO TWEET
19. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” – Colin Powell
20. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg
21. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
22. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
23. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
24. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
25. “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
26. “People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success.” – Norman Vincent Peale
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. – Bruce LeeCLICK TO TWEET28. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know and start charging for it.” – Kim Garst
29. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
30. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
31. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden
32. “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” – Charles F. Kettering
33. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
34. “The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.” – Thomas J. Watson
You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. – Jim RohnCLICK TO TWEET
36. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain
37. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.” – William Edward Hickson
38. “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people. -…CLICK TO TWEET
40. “Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.” – Michelle Obama
41. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
42. “Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you.” – Henry J. Kaiser
The best way of learning about anything is by doing. – Richard BransonCLICK TO TWEET
44. “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” – John F. Kennedy
Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back. – Babe RuthCLICK TO TWEET
46. “If you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything.” – Malcolm X
48. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight Eisenhower
49. “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Sr. Thomas Watson
50. “Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. – Henry FordCLICK TO TWEET
52. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin
53. “To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” – Tony Dorsett
54. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass
55. “People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done.” – John Maeda
56. “Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.” – Robin Sharma
57. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you’re in business, first and foremost, you have to be nice. Show your customers that you care. -…CLICK TO TWEET
59. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.” – Elon Musk
61. “People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.” – Seth Godin
62. “The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.” – Dennis Waitley
63. “I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey
Entrepreneurs are always super optimistic. If they weren’t they wouldn’t be entrepreneurs. – Heidi…CLICK TO TWEET
65. “Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day.” – Gary Vaynerchuck
66. “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” – Babe Ruth
67. “Don’t fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.” – Amy Cuddy
68. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
69. “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne
70. “Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.” – Seth Godin
71. “Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.” – Jack Dorsey
72. “If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.” – Kare Anderson
73. “Business in a combination of War and sport.” – Andre Maurois
74. “If you don’t make things happen then things will happen to you.” – Robert Collier
Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out. – Guy KawasakiCLICK TO TWEET
76. “Success is not a straight line, it’s much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.” – Arianna Huffington
77. “The essential question is not, ‘How busy are you?’ but ‘What are you busy at?’” – Oprah Winfrey
78. “A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.” – Unknown
79. “Your time is precious, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
80. “You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.” – Lolly Daskal
81. “Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.” – Seth Godin
82. “To win without risk is to triumph without glory.” – Pierre Corneille
Getting something wrong does not mean you have failed. Instead, you have just learned what does not…CLICK TO TWEET
84. “I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.” — Mark Zuckerberg
85. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
86. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
87. “In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.” – Harold Geneen
88. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches.” – Napoleon Hill
The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. – John EganCLICK TO TWEET
90. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
91. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey
92. “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.” – Richard Branson
93. “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
94. “Too little confidence, and you’re unable to act; too much confidence, and you’re unable to hear.” — John Maeda
Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out. – Robert CollierCLICK TO TWEET
96. “The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” – Lilly Tomlin
97. “If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.” – Ray Kroc
98. “Capital isn’t scarce; vision is.” – Sam Walton
99. “The secret to thriving in the future is ‘learning to learn’” – Dorie Clark
100. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill
101. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. – ConfuciusCLICK TO TWEET
103. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
104. “We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.” – Earl Nightingale
105. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
106. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks
107. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti
108. “To succeed in business you need to be original, but you also need to understand what your customers want.” – Richard Branson
You can’t out-spend the giants, but you can out-think, out-teach, and out-help them. – Brian HalliganCLICK TO TWEET110. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
111. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus
The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting. – Walt DisneyCLICK TO TWEET113. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” – John Maxwell
114. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.” – Malcolm Forbes
115. “Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.” – Oprah Winfrey
116. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
Be so good they can’t ignore you. – Steve MartinCLICK TO TWEET118. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
119. “Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” – Larry Winget
120. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
121. “You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” – Philippos
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Arthur AsheCLICK TO TWEET123. “The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” – Napoleon Hill
124. “Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.” – Carl Bard
125. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” – Robert Collier
126. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
127. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.” – Bill Cosby
128. “Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.” – Jimmy Spithill
129. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” – Earl Nightingale
130. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than…CLICK TO TWEET132. “Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” – Vaibhav Shah
133. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
134. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. – Pablo PicassoCLICK TO TWEET
Conclusion
There are so many opportunities out there for you. You must take action and have a positive mindset to achieve your fullest potential.
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