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The top 100 best entrepreneurship quotes if you’re an entrepreneur who needs a bit of motivation.


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Best Entrepreneurship Quotes

  1. “Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.” – Janis Joplin
  2. “There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley
  3. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

  4. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi

5. “My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had — every day I’m learning something new.” – Richard Branson

6. “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

7.“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

8.“Our chief want in life, is someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him, we are easily great.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” Oprah Winfrey

10. “Remember why you started.” – Unknown

11. “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly, who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Entrepreneurship Motivational Quotes

12. “It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed. You only have to be right once.” – Mark Cuban

13. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” – Henry Ford

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

15. “In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.” – Warren Buffett

16. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

17. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

18.  “It’s important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.” – Sara Blakely

19. “In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook

20. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel

Best Entrepreneurship Quotes

21. “A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.” – Mark Twain

22.  “I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.” – Larry Page

23. “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.” – Jeff Bezos

24. “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

25. “Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.” – Napoleon Hill

26. “Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.” – Reid Hoffman

27.  “There’s this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it’s done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.” – Drew Houston

28. “You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.” – Jessica Herrin

29. “Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It’s the mastery of fear. It’s about getting up one more time than we fall down.” – Arianna Huffington

30. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese proverb

Entrepreneurial Spirit Quotes

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

32. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” – Peter F. Drucker, author

33. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” –Confucius

34. “Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.” – Simon Sinek

35. “Success comes down to hard work plus passion, over time. If you work really, really hard over a long period of time, it will pay off.” – Stanley Tang

36. “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, writer

37. “A hard thing is done by figuring out how to start.”- Rand Fishkin, founder of Moz

38. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

39. “You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.” Unknown

40. “Everything started as nothing.” – Ben Weissenstein

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

42. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson

43. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” – Steve Jobs

44. “Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” – Winston Churchill

45. “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 safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

46. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

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

48. “If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” – Reid Hoffman

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

50. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” -Scott Belsky

51. If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” -Milton Berle 

52. “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.” -Henry Ford 

53. “Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.” -Simon Sinek ‍

54. “If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” – Michelle Ruiz 

55. Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.” Barbara Ann Corcoran

Famous Entrepreneur Quotes

56. “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

57. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs

58. “Remember why you started.” – Anonymous

59. “It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.” – Steve Jobs

60.  “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.” – Lisa Lieberman-Wang

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

62. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

63.  “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

64. “I stand up on my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.” – Robin Williams 

65. “Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

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66.  “What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.” – Simon Sinek

67. “Strive for authenticity over perfection.” – Sheryl Sandberg

68.  “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” – Amelia Earhart

69. “If Plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters.” – Claire Cook

70. “It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business.” – Mark Cuban

71. “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Katharine Hepburn

72. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” -Nelson Mandela

73. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” -Walt Disney

74. “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.” -Steve Jobs

75. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

76. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” -Oprah Winfrey

77. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” -James Cameron

78. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”  -John Lennon

Best Entrepreneur Quotes Ever

79. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

80. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

81. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

82. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” –  Mahatma Gandhi

83. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Stephen King

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

85. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”- Wayne Gretzky

86. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’”
— Audrey Hepburn

87. “There is nothing impossible to they who will try.”
— Alexander the Great

88. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
— Michael Altshuler

89. “Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.”
— Nicole Kidman

90. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Walt Whitman

91.  “Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell.”
— Amal Clooney

Here are some more of the top best entrepreneurship quotes.

92. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”— Malala Yousafzai

93. “At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.”— Dr. Phil

94. “People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.”— Carrie Ann Moss

95. “For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”— Michelle Obama

96. “Spread love everywhere you go.”— Mother Teresa

97. “Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on.”— Lady Gaga

98. “If you make your internal life a priority, then everything else you need on the outside will be given to you and it will be extremely clear what the next step is.”— Gabrielle Bernstein

99. “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.”— Mandy Hale

100. “You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are.” — Kesha

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