Best Entrepreneur Quotes : Powerful Entrepreneur Quotes

Entrepreneurship can be tough and sometimes it’s difficult to keep the motivational level high. Hope these entrepreneur quotes will give you inspiration in your business and personal goals.

Famous Entrepreneur Quotes

“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.” – Janis Joplin
“There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.” – Lisa Lieberman-Wang, Business Entrepreneur Quotes
“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.” – Steve Jobs
“Remember why you started.” – Anonymous
“Screw it, let’s do it.” – Richard Branson
“The longer you’re not taking action the more money you’re losing.” – Carrie Wilkerson
“If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
“Go Big, or Go Home.” – Eliza Dushku
“It’s important to realize that brand is much more than a logo and slogan. A brand is who your company is: how you function and make decisions.” -Joanna McFarland, Co-founder of HopSkipDrive
“Do not focus on numbers. Focus on doing what you do best. It’s about building a community who want to visit your site every day because you create value and offer expertise.” -Cassey Ho, Founder of Blogilates.com
“When in doubt, bootstrap. Using your own personal resources is the easiest way to start a business. You don’t have to convince investors about the merits of your idea. You just have to convince yourself.” -Ryan Holmes, Co-founder of Hootsuite
“It’s necessary to find a mentor who can invest time to know your personal capabilities and business model.” -Nigel Davies, Founder of Claromentis
“Don’t get distracted. Never tell yourself that you need to be the biggest brand in the whole world. Start by working on what you need at the present moment and then what you need to do tomorrow. So, set yourself manageable targets.” -Jas Bagniewski, Co-Founder of Eve Sleep
“You have to get good at ceding control and not taking things personally. Even seasoned entrepreneurs have struggled with that. I think it’s about not taking failures personally and also not taking successes personally.” -Leila Janah, Founder of Samasource and LXMI
“Your ability to attract, evaluate, and forge strong working relationships with co-founders, early employees, and investors often mean the difference between failure and success.” -Clara Shih, Co-founder of Hearsay Systems
“Fundraising is much easier now because of crowdfunding. Take advantage of that.” -Constantin Bisanz, Founder of Aloha
“Being a woman in business doesn’t come without challenges. My advice? Surround yourself with other supportive women that encourage you, share ideas, and get you motivated.” -Jessica Alba, Founder of The Honest Company
“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
“My advice is to focus on the importance of forging a long-term relationship, whether with colleagues, partners, or customers. It is often easy to get caught up in short-term decisions.” -Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Founder of Care.com
“If you’re starting something on your own, you better have a passion for it, because this is hard work.” -Sallie Krawcheck, Co-founder of Ellevest
“Be nicer to your customers than your competitors.” -Richard Reed, Co-Founder of Innocent Drinks
“Passion, creativity, and resilience are the most crucial skills in business. If you’ve got those, you’re ready to embark on the journey.” -Jo Malone, Founder of Jo Malone
“If you are working on a product that’s going to be consumer-facing, then feedback is invaluable. You should be out there being brave and talking to people and asking for feedback as much as possible.” -Emily Brooke, Co-founder of Blaze
“When you go to buy, don’t show your silver.” – Chinese Proverb
“It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.” – Grace Hopper
“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.” – Corneille
“Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.” – Booker T. Washington
“In the age of transparency, honesty, and generosity, even in the form of an apology, generate goodwill.” -Alexander Asseily, founder of Jawbone
“Sometimes, it doesn’t hurt to ask. I have been in the news many times just by calling on the news channel and asking them about featuring my business.” -Lori Cheek, Founder of Cheekd
“Remain self-funded as long as possible.” -Garrett Camp, Co-founder of Uber, StumbleUpon, and Expa
“Start as small as you can. When I started SkinnyMe Tea, I had $24 in the bank, and I was entirely self-funded. If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product; you’ve launched too late.” -Gretta Rose van Riel, Founder of Hey Influencers
“As a founder, lay all the possible scenarios — from best to worst — in front of you, so you don’t get surprised when something happens.” -Brian Wong, Co-founder of Kiip
“Only the paranoid survive.” -Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel
Most of us want to tell our coworkers or friends, or husbands or wives, our ideas. For what reason? We want validation. But I feel ideas are most vulnerable in their infancy. Out of love and concern, friends and family give all the reasons or objections on why [you] shouldn’t do it. I didn’t want to risk that.” – Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx
“I’m always tweaking, always trying to make it better, constantly moving the levers and dials.” – Steve Ells, founder, and co-CEO of Chipotle
“It starts with not having a hangover with the way things used to be.” – Kevin Plank, founder and CEO of Under Armour

“There is something artificial when everyone is agreeing with each other. It’s useful to indulge people who don’t agree, and see their viewpoint or force yourself to explain things better.” – David Sack, founder of Yammer
“If you are not getting traction on your idea, you try few things. You try pushing harder, cleaning up something, building up to something aggressively — but if it doesn’t get traction, then don’t bother.” -Vijay Sharma, Founder of Paytm
“It’s very important for entrepreneurs to look for people in the company who are not afraid of failures, for example, intrapreneurs. They make a business more successful by thinking like an entrepreneur — but within a company.” – Chirag Kulkarni, Founder of Taco
“My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long university education that I never had — every day I’m learning something new.” – Richard Branson
“Genius is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent perspiration.” — Thomas Edison
“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
“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” – Sara Blakely
“What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.” – Simon Sinek
“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“I stand up on my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.” – Robin Williams
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'” – Muhammad Ali
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs
“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
“Age is something that doesn’t matter unless you are a cheese.” – Billie Burke
“Find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them.” – Marissa Meyer
“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender, it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” – Stephen Covey

Best Entrepreneur Quotes Ever
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Sally Berger
“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton (founder of Hilton Hotels)
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle
“Take criticism seriously, but not personally.” – Hillary Clinton
“My best advice to entrepreneurs is this: Forget about making mistakes, just do it.” – Ajaero Tony Martins
“Failure is just a resting place. It is an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Katharine Hepburn
“It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business.” – Mark Cuban
“If Plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters.” – Claire Cook

“The most effective way to do it is to do it.” – Amelia Earhart
“Strive for authenticity over perfection.” – Sheryl Sandberg
“If we tried to think of a good idea, we wouldn’t have been able to think of a good idea. You just have to find the solution for a problem in your own life.” -Brian Chesky, Co-founder of Airbnb
“One of the greatest skills of leadership is being unflappable. Anytime you do anything in the world; there’s going to be criticism.” -Arianna Huffington, Co-found and editor-in-chief of Huffington Post Media Group
“When you are building a startup, it’s difficult. Particularly, a startup that is expanding at the rate of Tinder. You have to give 100%, and you have to be committed. Solving the problem has to be personal or else you’re going to disintegrate.” -Sean Rad, Co-founder of Tinder, Inc.
“People are the most important thing. Business model and product will follow if you have the right people.” -Adam Neumann, Co-founder of WeWork
“Selling is not a pushy, winner-takes-all, macho act. It is an empathy-led, process-driven, and knowledge-intensive discipline. Because, in the end, people buy from people.” -Subroto Bagchi, Co-founder of Mindtree
“Ignore the hype of the startups that you see in the press. Mostly, it’s a pack of lies. Half of these startups will be dead in a year. So, focus on building your business so you can be the one left standing.” -Jules Pieri, Co-founder and CEO of The Grommet
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
“Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” – Anne Lamott
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” –Napoleon Hill, Entrepreneur quotes for success

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
“Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it.” – Ryan Allis, Positive Entrepreneur Quotes
“He who begins many things finishes but few.” – German Proverb
“The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.” – William James
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Derek Bok
“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 can’t.” – A student in Warren G. Tracy’s class, Be an Entrepreneur Quotes
“Lend your friend $20, if he doesn’t pay you back then he’s not your friend. Money well spent.” – Ted Nicolas
“Be nice to geek’s, you’ll probably end up working for one.” – Bill Gates
“To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.” – Tony Hsieh
“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
“We learned many things while building FourSquare. One of the most important lessons is to be clear to investors about what the company will and will not do. And be open about the priorities of the things that have to be done.” -Dennis Crowley, Co-founder of Foursquare
“Don’t let others convince you that the idea is good when your gut tells you it’s bad.” -Kevin Rose, co-founded Digg, Being an Entrepreneur Quotes
“I can name dozens of failures that we had over the years. Yet, with all these failures, we still managed to build Appster into one of the largest, and best companies in our industry. So, remember every time you fail, remind yourself these words: ‘Life won’t always go my way, but I will always find a way’.” -Josiah Humphrey, Co-founder of Appster
“If you tune it so that you have zero chance of failure, you usually also have zero chance of success. The key is to look at ways for when you get to your failure checkpoint, you know to stop.” -Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn
“Some days you’re smiling and thinking you’re going to make this thing rock. Then the next day a pipe breaks and your costs look too high. You have to learn to keep your eyes on an ultimate goal. If you lose sight of that goal, you have to get out.” -Hamdi Ulukaya, founder and CEO of Chobani
“If something is important enough, or you believe something is important enough, even if you are scared, you will keep going.” -Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, Business Entrepreneur Quotes
“One of the things I tend to do is open myself up to a variety of voices. I try to expose myself to the kind of culture shock that occurs when you talk to people who speak a different language.” -Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay
“If you start thinking you are good at something, that’s often the day you stop trying to be better and open the back door for someone to come after you. That’s why we always aim higher. We never feel like we’re done.” -Drew Houston, co-founder, and CEO of Dropbox
“Starting a company extracts so much energy and conviction that not having a clear-cut goal and meaningful mission can hamper your success. This is why, at Virta, our mission was clearly defined: reverse early type-2 diabetes in 100 million people by 2025.” -Sami Inkinen, Co-founder of Virta Health
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“If you know too much before the start, then you will get overwhelmed. Come up with an original idea, and don’t copy because there will be no passion. You need that otherworldly passion. Just start.” -Jeni Britton Bauer, Founder of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams.
“Don’t assume that borrowing lots of money can make your startup fly. There are many things to the business other than investors, and it’s possible to succeed with your startup without breaking the bank.” -Barnaby Lashbrooke, Founder of Time Etc.
“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
“Its better to own the racecourse then the race horse.” – Anonymous
“You don’t buy a nice car and get rich you get rich and buy a nice car.” – Anonymous
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.” – Mooie
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” – Dr. Napoleon Hill
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Alva Edison
“If you ain’t making waves, you ain’t kickin’ hard enough.” – Anonymous
“What is not started will never get finished.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William B. Sprague
“When you cease to dream you cease to live.” – Malcolm Forbes