There is no other feeling close to achieving success in entrepreneurship. 88 percent of millionaires are self-made as per a 2017 survey from Fidelity Investments. So, what’s your excuse for not starting. Please, don’t complain tomorrow when someone else idea becomes huge success. I hope these building an empire quotes will motivate you to start your own business.
- “Try not to waste your entire life working just to earn a paycheck. Seek to discover what your true passion in life is, and start working on turning it into an empire of your own.” ― Edmond Mbiaka
- “Stop talking about how you will build an empire, and start building it right at this very moment. Time never waits for anyone to feel perfectly ready.” ― Edmond Mbiaka
- “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” — Thomas Watson Sr.
- “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” —Napoleon Hill
- “In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision.” — Peter F. Drucker
- “Everyone who achieves success in a great venture solves each problem as they came. They helped themselves and they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they meet.” — W. Clement Stone
- “Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.” — Angelo Sotira
- “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” — Wayne Huizenga
- “When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.” — Robert Kiyosaki
- “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” — Thomas Watson Sr.
- “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” — Steve Jobs
- “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.” — Josh James
- “The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” — Nolan Bushnell
- “For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.” — Timothy Ferriss
- “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” — Mark Zuckerberg
- “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.” — Henry Ford
- “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” — Scott Belsky
- “Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it’s starting a new business, whether it’s leaving home, whether it’s getting married, or whether it’s flying in space.” – Chris Hadfield
- “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” — Guy Kawasaki
- “Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” — Mario Andretti
- “When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.” — Mary Kay Ash
- “Don’t be afraid to assert elf, have confidence in your abilities, and don’t let the bastards get you down.” — Michael Bloomberg
- “Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession.” – Mark Cuban
- “Sustaining a successful business is a hell of a lot of work, and staying hungry is half the battle.” – Wendy Tan White
- “A big business starts small.” – Richard Branson
- “Bringing great people onto your team is about demonstrating that size really doesn’t matter – people do.” – Jess Campbell
- “You don’t build a business, you build people, then people build the business.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Make something people want” includes making a company that people want to work for.” – Sahil Lavingia
- “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” – Jack Welch
- “Find a great mentor, someone who has already been through the many challenges of being an entrepreneur..” – Jodi Levine
- “Don’t spread yourself too thin… focus trumps freneticism any day.” – John Coleman
- “Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.” – Dee Hock
- “Spend time upfront to invest in systems and processes to make long-term growth sustainable.” – Jeff Platt
- “Help your team feel more connected to your company by incorporating the right digital technology tools into their workflow.” – Andrea Meyer
- “There is no finish line. There are only mile markers.” – Michael Ventura
- “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” — Seth Godin
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney
- “I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.” — Harland Sanders
- “If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.” — Ray Kroc
- “If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”— Pierre Omidyar
- “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” – Dhirubhai Ambani
- “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” — Steve Jobs
- “I find that the harder I work the, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” – Eric Thomas
