Top 47 Motivational & Inspirational Quotes for Business Entrepreneurs

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Great Inspirational Quotes For Entrepreneurs

  • “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
  • “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” -Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO
  • “Don’t try to do everything by yourself, but try to connect with people and resources. Having that discipline and perseverance is really important.” -Chieu Cao, Co-founder of Perkbox
  • “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, media proprietor
  • “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown, American motivational speaker, author, and former politician
  • “You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.” -Jessica Herrin, founder and CEO of Stella & Dot
  • “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, Founder Mary Kay Cosmetics
  • If you can offer a free tier that provides a lot of value, it will naturally help your product to spread much more rapidly.” -Melanie Perkins, Co-founder of Canva
  • “Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.” ― Roy T. Bennett, author
  • “Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.” – David Karp, founder and CEO Tumblr
  • “People are the most important thing. Business model and product will follow if you have the right people.”-Adam Neumann, Co-founder of WeWork
  • “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, Founder WorkIsNotaJob

Motivational Quotes For Business Entrepreneurs

  • “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.” – Reid Hoffman, co-founder LinkedIn
  • “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” — Jim Rohn, one of America’s foremost business philosophers
  • “You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.” -Jessica Herrin, founder and CEO of Stella & Dot
  • “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, executive, head coach, player NFL
  • “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” – Jack Dorsey, founder Twitter
  • “It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.” – James Cash Penney, founder and CEO J.C. Penny
  • “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
  • “Have the end in mind and every day make sure you’re working towards it.” -Ryan Allis, co-founder and CEO iContact
  • “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently… A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” – Henry Ford, founder Ford Motor Company
  • “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” -Napoleon Hill

Positive & Inspiring Quotes For Startup Entrepreneurs

  • “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft
  • “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, founder, and CEO of O’Reilly Media
  • “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” — Lisa Stone, co-founder and CEO of BlogHer
  • “Stay self-funded as long as possible.” — Garrett Camp, founder of Expa, Uber, and StumbleUpon
  • “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” -Bo Bennett, founder eBookit.com
  • “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, founder Wendy’s
  • “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”  –Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Apple
  • “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” — Helen Keller, American author, political activist and lecturer
  • “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” — Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter
  • “The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.”  –Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO

Best Entrepreneurs Quotes For Successful Business

  • “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, founder of SPANX
  • “The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.” –Walt Disney, Co-Founder, Disney
  • Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”–Jack London, Author
  • “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, AOL Co-Founder and CEO
  • “The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.” — Socrates, father of Western philosophy
  • “If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.” — Zig Ziglar, author, salesman, and motivational speaker
  • “It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.” — Jason Cohen, founder of Smartbear Software
  • “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” — Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
  • “Nothing works better than just improving your product.” — Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow

Positive Sayings For Entrepreneurs

  • “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” — Rob Kalin, founder of Etsy
  • “Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.” — Noah Everett, founder of Twitpic
  • “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” — Larry Page, co-founder of Google
  • “All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.” — Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn
  • “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” — Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor
  • “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” – G. K. Chesterton, English writer, poet, and philosopher
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