200 Best Entrepreneurship Quotes Ever

By Dane Carlson, Business Opportunities Weblog – August 24, 2012 at 02:16PM

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

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