Quotations for Entrepreneurs
Being an entrepreneur, particularly in the early days can be tough. The wise words of others who have gone before and succeeded, often inspires and provides the fuel to move forward.
In this book you will find quotations that are perfect for almost every situation an entrepreneur faces, from individuals as diverse as Abraham Lincoln to Bill Gates and Mark Twain to Anita Roddick.
We hope they inspire and motivate you in the way they do us.
Martin Soorjoo
Founder
"Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.” Tony Hsieh – Zappos
"Those who are willing to take action and
take risks succeed. The others fade
quickly.”
Bradley Smith
“You've got to get up every morning with
determination if you're going to go to
bed with satisfaction.”
George Lorimer
"Every day at a startup is a roller coaster."
Mike Hudack CEO,Co-Founder Blip TV
"It’s never too late to be who you might have been’”
George Elliot
"When you innovate, you’ve got to be
prepared for people telling you that you
are nuts. "
Larry Ellison , Founder Oracle
“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
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You'll learn the same strategies and tactics that have been used by entrepreneurs to raise millions of dollars, secure partnerships, and win big sales contracts.
"We were young, but we had good
advice and good ideas and lots of
enthusiasm."
Bill Gates
“I could not wait for success, so I went ahead without it” Jonathan Winters
"The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster"
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” Henry Ford
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
Jim Rohn
“If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.”
Jack Welch
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
Steve Jobs
"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can."
Henry Drummond
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.” Tommy Lasorda
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
Albert Einstein
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. "
Winston Churchill
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing can help the man with the wrong attitude.”
Jefferson
"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
“If you're interested, you'll do what's convenient. If you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes.”
John Assaraf
“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, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
Anonymous
“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.” Napoleon Hill
" Fall seven times; stand up eight"
Japanese proverb
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
Jack London
"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.“ Leon J. Suenes
"Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration." Evan Esar
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. "
Henry David Thoreau
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. Christopher Reeves
“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.”
George Hala
“Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
Peter F. Drucker
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure"
Paulo Coelho
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
Sir Winston Churchill
“To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.”
Bunker Hunt
"If you haven't failed 5X as many times as you succeeded you're not prepared for success" Jay Adelson , Co-Founder Digg
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me" Ayn Rand
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
Jack London
"There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them." Seth Godin
"Always deliver more than expected.”
Larry Page
You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can."
Steve Case AOL
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
Helen Keller
"If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough. "
Chris Dixon, Co-Founder Hunch
"Don’t be shy about believing in your ideas - even if folks around you think you’re crazy. "
Tim Westergren, Founder Pandora
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing." Abraham Lincoln
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare "
Japanese Proverb
"In the business world, the rear view mirror is always clearer that the windshield "
Warren Buffett
“Be nice to geek’s, you’ll probably end up working for one"
Bill Gates
“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.” Henry Ford
“There are people that sit and talk about where they want to be, and there are people who go out and be who they want to be "
Anonymous
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness." Seneca
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
Sun Tzu
"In life you need either inspiration or desperation"
Tony Robbins
“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect'.” Adam Osborne - American Entrepreneur
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" Thomas Edison, inventor and scientist
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.”
Confucius
“Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.”
Reed Markham
"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians."
Warren Buffett
A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them."
Henry Kravis - Co founder PE Firm
"Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence "
Lisa M. Amos
“If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner”
Zig Ziglar
"Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do "
Sir Winston Churchill
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower“
Steve Jobs
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” Colin Powell
“Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
Henry Ford
"Screw it, ,Let's Do it"
Sir Richard Branson
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
Alan Kay, Computer Scientist
“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is.” Anita Roddick - Founder Body Shop
"It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.” Arnold Bennett
“You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can." Steve Case AOL
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." Samuel Johnson
" The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” Richard Bach
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
Rockerfeller
"Fortune favors the brave."
Publius Terence
" Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently .“
Henry Ford
"There's always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits & imagining the impossible."
Anonymous
" Talk does not cook rice."
Chinese Proverb
"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, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
"I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!"
Madam C.J. Walker, creator of a popular line of African-American hair care products and America's first black female millionaire
“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki, author, entrepreneur
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
Bill Cosby
“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”
Mario Andretti
“I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got.”
Alan Bond
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
Michael Jordan
“Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.”
Jim Rohn
“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”
Anonymous
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi
“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” Maxwell
“The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it." Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies
“If you have an urge to build something that could change the world, don’t focus on the money, but the legacy you’ll leave behind.”
Alexander Tamas
“I could not wait for success, so I went
ahead without it.”
Jonathan Winters
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
Les Brown
“When I want to think, I sit. When I want to change, I act.”
Japanese Proverb
“I have failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan
“You don't have to be great to start, but
you have to start to be great”
Joe Sarah
“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way”
Henry David Thoreau
“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one” Wayne Dyer
“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
“Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.” – Peter Drucker
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.” – Confucius
"Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but
nothing replaces actual experience. "
Tony Hsieh
“I had never been interested in being ‘in business’. I’ve been interested in creating things.” Richard Branson
"It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower' Paul Graham
“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” – G. K. Chesterton,
"The Difference Between Success and Failure is the Ability to Adapt ' - Jack Bauer
To accomplish great things, we must not
only act, but also dream; not only plan,
but also believe.
Anatole France - Poet
Good entrepreneurs have a chip on their
shoulders. They are out to prove
something.
Mark Suster
“ My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I’ve always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism. ” Evan Williams
There is no such thing as a quantum leap.
There is only dogged persistence - and in
the end you make it look like a quantum
leap.
James Dyson
“ The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. Nolan Bushnell
“ Big companies will talk to you, criticize you, then copy you. ” David Ulevitch
"Do or do not. There is no try. "- Yoda
Advice for every pitch situation a modern day entrepreneur will encounter
Whether you're pitching for funding, the media, or to potential customers and partners, to survive and succeed as an entrepreneur, you have to know how to deliver a high-impact pitch. Here's the Pitch reveals powerful proven techniques to get your audience to take the action you want.
You'll learn the same strategies and tactics that have been used by entrepreneurs to raise millions of dollars, secure partnerships, and win big sales contracts.
"If you set your goals ridiculously high
and it’s a failure, you will fail above
everyone else’s success."
James Cameron
"In a startup, things seem great one
moment and hopeless the next. And by
next, I mean a couple hours later. "
Paul Graham
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to
excel are the things that endure. These
qualities are so much more important
than the events that occur.
Vince Lombardi
We believed in ourselves all year. That’s the
position you want to be in.
Eli Manning
You have to play this game like somebody just
hit your mother with a two-by-four.
Dan Birdwell
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
Joe Namath
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