More Entrepreneurial Quotes

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Our Top 20 Entrepreneurship Quotes was so popular – we had to post another one! Read on for quotes by entrepreneurs and others inspired by entrepreneurship. Thanks to everyone that contributed by adding their own favorite quotes to our previous post!

Quotes by entrepreneurs:

1. Life is too short to live someone else’s dream. - Hue Hefner, founder of Playboy Magazine

2. We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company. - Howard Schultz, Chairman of Starbucks

3. The key is to just get on the bike, and the key to getting on the bike...is to stop thinking about “there are a bunch of reasons I might fall off” and just hop on and peddle the damned thing. You can pick up a map, a tire pump, and better footwear along the way. - Dick Costolo, Founder of Feedburner.com

4. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. - Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft 

5. I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. - Warren Buffett, investor and entrepreneur 

6. Fail often so you can succeed sooner. – Tom Kelley, entrepreneur

7. The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?” – Tim Ferriss, author of 4-Hour Workweek

and entrepreneur

8. If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. – Anita Roddick, founder of BodyShop 

9. A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. - Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com 

10. To put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot. - George Foreman, boxer and entrepreneur 

11. I want to put a ding in the universe. - Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple 

12. We're all working together; that's the secret. - Sam Walton, founder of Walmart

13. 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, founder of Virgin Records 

14. I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard. - Estee Lauder, entrepreneur 

15. You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in. - Debbi Rose Fields, entrepreneur

16. Dreams make you click, juice you, turn you on, excite the living daylights out of you. You cannot wait to get out of bed to continue pursuing your dream. The kind of dream I'm talking about gives meaning to your life. it is the ultimate motivator. - Jim Collins, author and entrepreneur

17. Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over....Persistence is having the same goal over and over. - Seth Godin, author and blogger 

18. Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world. - Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google

Other quotes that relate to entrepreneurship:

1. Knock down the door. - Anonymous

2. There are three kinds of people. Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. - Anonymous

3. Don't plan for success, but rather prepare for success. - Anonymous

4. Lead, follow, or get the f@#k out of the way. - Anonymous

5. Those who say something can not be done should step aside for those doing it - Anonymous

6. There are two types of people in the world: those who think things through and those who follow things through. - Anonymous

7. Act as if failure is impossible, and your success will be assured. Wipe out every thought of not achieving your objectives, whether they are material or spiritual. Be brave, and set no limits on the workings of your imagination. - Anonymous

8. Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. You will never be the same. – Anonymous

9. The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now. - Chinese Proverb

10. Everybody's got plans...until they get hit. - Mike Tyson, boxer

11. If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison, Inventor

12. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President

13. I dream my painting and paint my dream. - Vincent Van Gogh, artist

14. Who dares, wins. - SAS motto

15. We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein, physicist. Another one - Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

16. The cover-your-butt mentality of the workplace will get you only so far. The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business--but it's a whole lot more fun, don't you think? - Bill Rancic, first winner of “The Apprentice”

17. It is amazing what can be accomplished if you don't take care who takes the credit. - Ronald Reagan, U.S. President

18. Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life - Allen Lakein, author

19. At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. - Salvador Dali, painter

20. Be mindful of the link between present action and desired future outcome. Ask yourself: if I repeat today’s actions 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year? - Roz Savage, author

By: Yasmine Mustafa

Comments

[juliana]

Great piece of inspiration for all the entrepreneurs out there.

[hank]

I agree with Skip - if your ideas are any good, you WILL have ram them down people's throats. Everyone gets hung up on patenting and pushing their product, keeping it secret, etc, etc, that they don't ever get past that point because they don't ask for help. With any entrepreneurship, help helps...

[Skip Shuda]

Howard Aiken said "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."

(extracted from Paul Graham's blog)

[Don]

Nice post Yasmine,

I like the last one the best. "Be mindful of the link between present action and desired future outcome. Ask yourself: if I repeat today’s actions 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year?"

I think that is the key to success. Well put!

[Christine]

Great quotes. The Anonymous ones are definitely my favorite!