The Entrepreneur’s Toolbox: 65 Quotes to Empower Every Entrepreneur’s Dreams
Being an entrepreneur can be challenging, rewarding, stressful, exciting and demanding. Staying motivated is crucial to handle the challenges that come our way. One of the best ways to maintain the drive is by drawing inspiration from those who have already walked the path.
Words have so much power. Here are 65 of my favorite quotes to inspire and motivate you when you need it the most.
Write down your favorite quotes on a sticky note, journal or put them up by your desk.
I revisit these quotes from time to time when I can use a little uplifting. Sometimes your mindset can make all the difference and these quotes might help you do just that.
65 Quotes for Motivation and Inspiration
- “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein
- “There’s a lot of information out there for free, so you’ve got to figure out what makes your information different.” – Matt Wolfe
- “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Done is better than perfect.” – Sheryl Sandberg
- “If Plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters.” – Claire Cook
- “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
- “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
- “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
- “The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.” – Roy L. Smith
- “The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect.” – Adam Osborne
- “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder
- “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
- “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” – Scott Belsky
- “What you do after you create your content is what truly counts.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
- “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” – Guy Kawasaki
- “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
- “Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours per week.” – Lori Greiner
- “I think I am about 5 for 500 when it comes to successful ideas vs flops.” – Jerry Schoemaker
- If you don’t build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs. – Tony Gaskins
- “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!” – Henry Ford
- “If people like you, they’ll listen to you. But if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.” – Zig Ziglar
- “If you build a great customer experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.” – Jeff Bezos
- “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
- “The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller
- “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill
- “Successful entrepreneurs see opportunities instead of obstacles.” – Mark Cuban
- “The secret to successful entrepreneurship is having a growth mindset: no matter how much you know, there’s always something new to learn and do better.” – Guy Kawasaki
- “Whatever you do, don’t play it safe. Don’t do things the way they’ve always been done. Don’t try to fit the system. If you do what’s expected of you, you’ll never accomplish more than others expect.” – Howard Schultz
- “An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.” – Reid Hoffman
- “The golden rule for every businessman is this: Put yourself in your customer’s place.” – Orison Swett Marden
- “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John C. Maxwell
- “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
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
- “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
- “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
- “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” – Steve Jobs
- “The question I ask myself almost every day is, ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?’” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.” – Seth Godin
- “It’s time to put yourself out there, because you never know what amazing things will come your way.” – Joy Deangdeelert Cho
- “We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.” – Arianna Huffington
- “Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.” – Elon Musk
- “Success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.” – Michelle Obama
- “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” – Carol Burnett
- “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know and start charging for it.” – Kim Garst
- “Without a customer, you don’t have a business – all you have is a hobby.” – Don Peppers
- “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
- “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”— Maya Angelou
- Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin
- “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson
- “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!” – Henry Ford
Every great entrepreneur started somewhere. With determination and hard work, you too can achieve your dreams. Keep pushing forwards and let these quotes be a reminder of the success that lies ahead!
Surround yourself with positive people who can help lift you when you need it most. I hope these quotes inspire you as much as they do me.
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