Best 101 Entrepreneurship Quotes Ever

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Success Quotes

1. “There are two rules for success. 1) Never tell everything you know.” Roger H. Lincoln ^{[tweet it]}


2. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” Vidal Sassoon ^{[tweet it]}


3. “Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.” Joe Penna ^{[tweet it]}


4. “Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.” Will Smith ^{[tweet it]}


5. “Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.” Thomas J. Watson ^{[tweet it]}


6. “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” Thomas J. Watson ^{[tweet it]}


7. “If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.” Claude McDonald ^{[tweet it]}


8. “Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.” Earl Wilson ^{[tweet it]}


9. “The road to success is always under construction.” Arnold Palmer ^{[tweet it]}


10. “Anything the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Napoleon Hill ^{[tweet it]}


11. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” Napoleon Hill ^{[tweet it]}


12. “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.” Henry Ford ^{[tweet it]}

Failure Quotes

13. “Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.” Robert T. Kiyosaki ^{[tweet it]}


14. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Thomas Edison ^{[tweet it]}


15. “Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.” John F. Kennedy ^{[tweet it]}


16. “The biggest failure you can have in life is not trying at all.” Emil Motycka ^{[tweet it]}


17. “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 ^{[tweet it]}

Leadership Quotes

18. “Leaders don’t force people to follow, they invite them on a journey.” Charles S. Lauer ^{[tweet it]}


19. “Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing.” Abraham Lincoln ^{[tweet it]}


20. “Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.” George Van Valkenburg ^{[tweet it]}


21. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower ^{[tweet it]}


22. “The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ‘Go!’ -a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’.” E. M. Kelly ^{[tweet it]}


23. “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 ^{[tweet it]}

Wisdom Quotes

24. “The
    whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
    certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” Bertrand Russell ^{[tweet it]}


25. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle ^{[tweet it]}


26. “Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.” Stanislaw Lem ^{[tweet it]}


27. “A ship in harbor is safe. But that’s now what ships are built for.” William Shedd ^{[tweet it]}


28. “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca ^{[tweet it]}


29. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzky ^{[tweet it]}


30. “I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.” Jay-Z ^{[tweet it]}


31. “The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.” Vance Hayner ^{[tweet it]}


32. “Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” William B. Sprague ^{[tweet it]}


33. “It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.” Grace Hopper ^{[tweet it]}


34. “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 ^{[tweet it]}


35. “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.” Mooie ^{[tweet it]}

Humorous Quotes

36. “I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.” Steven Wright ^{[tweet it]}


37. “Ever notice how it’s a penny for your thoughts, yet you put in your two-cents? Someone is making a penny on the deal.” Steven Wright ^{[tweet it]}


38. “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 Marx ^{[tweet it]}


39. “I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.” Les Dawson ^{[tweet it]}


40. “Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00—2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.” Invoice from Charles Steinmetz ^{[tweet it]}


41. “By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” Robert Frost ^{[tweet it]}


42. “My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” Ted Turner ^{[tweet it]}


43. “I didn’t go to college, but if I did, I would’ve taken all my tests at a restaurant, ’cause ‘The customer is always right.’” Mitch Hedberg ^{[tweet it]}

Money Quotes

44. “Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.” Jim Rohn ^{[tweet it]}


45. “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 ^{[tweet it]}


46. “If you’re not learning while you’re earning, you’re cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.” Napoleon Hill ^{[tweet it]}


47. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” Henry Ford ^{[tweet it]}


48. “After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.” Aristotle ^{[tweet it]}


49. “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 ^{[tweet it]}


50. “All of my friends were doing babysitting jobs. I wanted money without the job.” Adam Horwitz ^{[tweet it]}


51. “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 ^{[tweet it]}


52. “Lend your friend $20. If he doesn’t pay you back then he’s not your friend. Money well spent.” Ted Nicolas ^{[tweet it]}


53. “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” Will Smith ^{[tweet it]}

Practical Quotes

54. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” Agatha Christie ^{[tweet it]}


55. “Hire character. Train skill.” Peter Schultz ^{[tweet it]}


56. “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” Dwight D. Eisenhower ^{[tweet it]}


57. “You’ve got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don’t work.” Michael Dunlop ^{[tweet it]}


58. “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 ^{[tweet it]}


59. “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions.” Catherine Cook ^{[tweet it]}


60. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” Bill Gates ^{[tweet it]}


61. “One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want.” Zig Ziglar ^{[tweet it]}


62. “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 it]}


63. “The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” Nolan Bushnell ^{[tweet it]}


64. “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 ^{[tweet it]}

Motivational Quotes

65. “Everything started as nothing.” Ben Weissenstein ^{[tweet it]}


66. “If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there’s nothing lost.” Michael Dunlop ^{[tweet it]}


67. “Start today, not tomorrow. If anything, you should have started yesterday.” Emil Motycka ^{[tweet it]}


68. “Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser’s excuse.” Andrew Fashion ^{[tweet it]}


69. “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 ^{[tweet it]}


70. “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 ^{[tweet it]}


71. “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” Babe Ruth ^{[tweet it]}


72. “You should always stay hungry. Stay hungry, so you can eat.” Syed Balkhi ^{[tweet it]}


73. “If you’re not living life on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” Anonymous ^{[tweet it]}


74. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Peter Drucker ^{[tweet it]}


75. “I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.” Donald Trump ^{[tweet it]}


76. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas Edison ^{[tweet it]}


77. “You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.” Jim Rohn ^{[tweet it]}


78. “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 it]}


79. “Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease.” Ryan P. Allis ^{[tweet it]}


80. “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 ^{[tweet it]}

Entrepreneurship Proverbs

81. “The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” Chinese Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


82. “If
    you want one year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want ten years of
    prosperity, grow trees. If you want one hundred years of prosperity,
    grow people.” Chinese Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


83. “Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” Japanese Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


84. “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.” Chinese Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


85. “A bad workman blames his tools.” Chinese Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


86. “A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.” Chinese Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


87. “Defeat isn’t bitter if you don’t swallow it.” Chinese Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


88. “The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.” Chinese Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


89. “A jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.” Chinese Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


90. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Chinese Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


91. “The loftiest towers rise from the ground.” Chinese Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


92. “Building a castle is difficult. Defending and maintaining it is harder still.” Asian Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


93. “A person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it.” Chinese Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


94. “All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws.” Chinese Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


95. “Don’t stand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.” Chinese Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


96. “Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.” Hasidic Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


97. “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” Chinese Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


98. “If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.” Chinese Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


99. “Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.” Chinese Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


100. “Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.” Chinese Proverb ^{[tweet it]}


101. “Find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Confucius ^{[tweet it]}

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