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Ultimate List of 51 Entrepreneur Quotes

Posted on the 24 March 2013 by Butterchicken @vivekkrishnan

List of 101 entrepreneur quotes. Get motivated and stay pumped with these wise words spoken by entrepreneurs who ceased the day no matter how bad the circumstances were. Quotes are important because they say in a lot in just a few words and are often a result of experiences by the particular person. Also, one can refer to them quickly in times of trouble. We have compiled a huge list.

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning – to create a product or service to make the world a better place. -Guy Kawasaki

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.Jim Rohn
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.Roy Ash

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.John C. Maxwell

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. - E. Joseph Cossman

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

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.Silvio Berlusconi

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity. From that love will come the dedication that will get you out of bed at 4 a.m. because of a great idea you just had and get you to work till 11 p.m. and not feel tired. – Ken Field

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.  – Albert Schweitzer

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.Henry Ford

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.Napoleon Hill

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.W. Clement Stone

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than
you said.
Jim Rohn

Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.Albert Einstein

The best way to predict the future is to create it.Peter Drucker

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.Robert Collier

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.John C. Maxwell

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.Bo Bennett

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. – Natalie Clifford Barney

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. –
Henry Ford

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. – Zig Ziglar

Every choice you make has an end result. – Zig Ziglar

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. – Mark Twain

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking, What’s in it for me? – Brian Tracy

A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. – Peter Drucker

Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it. – Napoleon Hill

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. – Jim Rohn

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. – Dale Carnegie

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vince Lombardi

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

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree I would spend six hours sharpening my axe. – Abraham Lincoln

Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life. – Confucius

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle and a victory. – Mahatma Gandhi
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life. – John F. Kennedy

The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities. – Michael Gerber

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. – Donald Trump
Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare. – Chinese Proverb

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney

Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves. – Zig Ziglar

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. – Harry Truman

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don’t! If you want to win, but think you can’t, It’s almost a cinch you won’t. If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost; For out in the world, we find success begins with a fellow’s will; it’s all in the state of the mind. Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger and faster man, but sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can. – Walter D. Wintle

Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing. – Abraham Lincoln
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

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. -  Stanislaw Lem

Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. – William B. Sprague


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