Witty talk: 123 Entrepreneurial Quotes Likely to Get You Into High Gear

Entrepreneurial Quotes

  1. Go Big, or Go Home. ― Eliza Dushku [tweet]
  2. Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and your faith stronger than your feelings. ― Unknown [tweet]
  3. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. ― Dalai Lama [tweet]
  4. The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today. ― Lewis Carroll [tweet]
  5. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. ― Dalai Lama [tweet]
  6. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. ― Dalai Lama [tweet]
  7. My dear, find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover. Falsely yours. ― Charles Bukowski [tweet]
  8. If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. ― Lewis Carroll [tweet]
  9. Don’t expect everyone to understand your journey. Especially if they’ve never had to walk your path! ― Unknown [tweet]
  10. Without execution, thinking is mere idleness. ― Winston Churchill [tweet]
  11. Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ― Aristotle [tweet]
  12. Not everyone will understand your journey. And that’s fine. You have to realize that it’s not their journey to make sense of. It’s yours. ― Zero Dean [tweet]
  13. Maturity is not when we start speaking big things…it is when we start understanding small things. ― Rahul Kuntala [tweet]
  14. Stars can’t without darkness. ― Unknown [tweet]
  15. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. ― Kevin Durant [tweet]
  16. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ― André Gide [tweet]
  17. Give them quality. That’s the best kind of advertising. ― Milton Hershey [tweet]
  18. If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. ― Mario Andretti [tweet]
  19. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. ― Mark Zuckerberg [tweet]
  20. A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things. ― Grace Hopper [tweet]A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships ...Image source: Restless Pilgrim
  21. The longer you’re not taking action the more money you’re losing. ― Carrie Wilkerson [tweet]
  22. The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. ― Mark Zuckerberg [tweet]
  23. 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 [tweet]
  24. Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration. ― Thomas Edison [tweet]
  25. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. ― Vince Lombardi [tweet]
  26. Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t so you can spend the rest of your life like most people cant. ― Warren G. Tracy’s student [tweet]
  27. What is not started will never get finished. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [tweet]
  28. Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life. ― Confucius [tweet]
  29. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ― Bill Gates [tweet]
  30. Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. ― Napoleon Hill [tweet]
  31. 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 [tweet]
  32. Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. ― Henry Ford [tweet]
  33. Action is the foundational key to all success. ― Pablo Picasso [tweet]
  34. Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them. ― Unknown [tweet]
  35. An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. ― Roy Ash [tweet]
  36. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. ― Bill Cosby [tweet]
  37. 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 [tweet]
  38. Screw it, Let’s do it! ― Richard Branson [tweet]
  39. Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. ― Winston Churchill [tweet]
  40. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. ― Benjamin Franklin [tweet]

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  41. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson [tweet]
  42. To any entrepreneur: if you want to do it, do it now. If you don’t, you’re going to regret it. ― Catherine Cook [tweet]
  43. Start today, not tomorrow. If anything, you should have started yesterday. The earlier you start, the more time you have to mess up. ― Emil Motycka [tweet]
  44. Failures are the stepping stones to success. ― Farrhad Acidwalla [tweet]
  45. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. ― Chinese Proverb [tweet]
  46. A person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it. ― George Bernard Shaw [tweet]
  47. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ― Chinese Proverb  [tweet]
  48. Failing to plan is planning to fail. ― Alan Lakein [tweet]
  49. If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through. ― Chinese Proverb [tweet]
  50. Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. ― Chinese Proverb [tweet]
  51. The emperor is rich, but he cannot buy one extra year. ― Chinese Proverb [tweet]
  52. You could have a million ideas, but they’re all worthless if you don’t get them done. ― Lauren Amarante [tweet]
  53. It’s not about how many years of experience you have. It’s about the quality of your years of experience. ― Jacob Cass [tweet]
  54. Starting your own business is like riding a roller coaster. There are highs and lows and every turn you take is another twist. The lows are really low, but the highs can be really high. You have to be strong, keep your stomach tight, and ride along with the roller coaster that you started. ― Lindsay Manseau [tweet]
  55. The biggest failure you can have in life is not trying at all. ― Emil Motycka [tweet]
  56. Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. ― General George Patton [tweet]
  57. The road to success is always under construction. ― Arnold Palmer [tweet]
  58. The best way to predict the future is to create it. ― Peter Drucker [tweet]
  59. If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. ― Brian Tracy [tweet]
  60. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ― Agatha Christie [tweet]

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  61. If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got! ― Alan Scott [tweet]
  62. 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 [tweet]
  63. Ideas are worthless. ― Dane Carlson [tweet]
  64. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. ― Mark Twain [tweet]
  65. Behind every SUCCESSFUL person there’s a lot of unsuccessful years. ― Neil Patel [tweet]
  66. Don’t stop when you’re tired, stop when you’re done. ― Neil Patel [tweet]
  67. Don’t get sidetracked by people who are not on track. ― Neil Patel [tweet]
  68. No one can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. ― Maria Robinson [tweet]
  69. Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. ― W. Clement Stone [tweet]
  70. Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin.  Beginning makes the conditions perfect. ― Alan Cohen [tweet]
  71. Well done is better than well said. ― Benjamin Franklin [tweet]
  72. Stop beating yourself up. You are a work in progress, which means you get there a little at a time, not all at once. ― Unknown [tweet]
  73. If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way.  If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse. ― Jim Rohn [tweet]
  74. You don’t have to be great to get started, but you do have to get started to be great. ― Zig Zaglar [tweet]
  75. Your mistakes should be your motivation, not your excuses. ― Unknown [tweet]
  76. Doing something and getting it wrong is at least ten times more productive than doing nothing. ― Unknown [tweet]
  77. No matter how many mistakes you make, or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying. ― Tony Robbins [tweet]
  78. When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. ― Unknown [tweet]
  79. People seldom do things to the best of their ability. They do things to the best of their willingness. ― Unknown [tweet]
  80. Growth begins at the end of your comfort zone. ― Unknown [tweet]

    Growth begins at the end of your comfort zone..
  81. It’s never too late to be what you might have been. ― BJ Gallagher [tweet]
  82. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. ― Walt Disney [tweet]
  83. The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. ― Douglas MacArthur [tweet]
  84. It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. ― Bill Gates [tweet]
  85. If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs. ― Dhirubhai Ambani [tweet]
  86. If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. ― Milton Berle [tweet]
  87. If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four hours sharpening the axe. ― Abraham Lincoln [tweet]
  88. Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ― Albert Einstein [tweet]
  89. Never despise small beginnings, and don’t belittle your own accomplishments. Remember them and use them as inspiration as you go on to the next thing. When you venture outside your comfort zone, wherever the starting point may be, it’s kind of a big deal. ― Chris Guillebeau [tweet]
  90. Great minds have purposes, others have dreams. ― Washington Irving [tweet]
  91. The perfect is the enemy of the good. ― Voltaire [tweet]
  92. Do not covet your ideas. ― Paul Arden [tweet]
  93. Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. ― Thomas Jefferson [tweet]
  94. Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. ― Oprah Winfrey [tweet]
  95. The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. ― Peter Drucker [tweet]
  96. He who begins many things finishes but few. ― German Proverb [tweet]
  97. Fall seven times, stand up eight. ― Japanese Proverb [tweet]
  98. One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching. ― Mooie [tweet]
  99. When you cease to dream you cease to live. ― Malcolm Forbes [tweet]
  100. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ― Eleanor Roosevelt [tweet]
    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people..Image source: Etsy
  101. The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ― Mark Caine [tweet]
  102. If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know start charging for it. ― Kim Garst [tweet]
  103. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ― David Brinkley [tweet]
  104. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. ― Roger Babson [tweet]
  105. Really it comes down to your philosophy. Do you want to play it safe and be good or do you want to take a chance and be great? ― Jimmy J [tweet]
  106. It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ― J. K Rowling [tweet]
  107. If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. ― Jim Rohn [tweet]
  108. Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something, not even me. Alright? You dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period. ― Will Smith [tweet]
  109. If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. ― Zig Ziglar [tweet]
  110. Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity. ― Will Smith [tweet]
  111. You have to have more leadership, less management. It’s about getting stuff done, you can sit around and analyze things forever but while you do that the competition has moved on. ― Peter Vesterbacka [tweet]
  112. Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. ― Natalie Clifford Barney [tweet]
  113. 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 [tweet]
  114. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. ― Jim Rohn [tweet]
  115. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ― Japanese Proverb [tweet]
  116. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there will ever be to know and understand. ― Albert Einstein [tweet]
  117. Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. ― Robert T. Kiyosaki [tweet]
  118. Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. ― Karl (maybe Groucho) Marx [tweet]
  119. Everything started as nothing. ― Ben Weissenstein [tweet]
  120. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ― Chinese Proverb [tweet]A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step..
  121. To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. ― Thomas J. Watson [tweet]
  122. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. ― Nolan Bushnell [tweet]
  123. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.  ― Jim Rohn [tweet]

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