Entrepreneurship Quotes

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

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
– Henry Ford

Some people dream of success… While others wake up and work hard at it.

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
– Michael Jordan

You can’t be an entrepreneur for other people. You can’t start a company for other people. You have to love it more than you ever thought of loving something that wasn’t a human being. The demands will kick you down and rob your life – but yet, it is so rewarding.
– Blake Lively

The entrepreneur is not really interested in doing the work; he is interested in creating the way the company operates. In that regard, the entrepreneur is an inventor. He or she loves to invent, but does not love to manufacture or sell or distribute what he or she invents
– Michael Gerber

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

Think P.I.G. – that’s my motto. P stands for Persistence, I stands for Integrity, and G stands for Guts. These are the ingredients for a successful business and a successful life
– Linda Chandler

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.
– Mark Cuban

There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world.
– Phil Libin

It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you don’t stop.

Do or do not, there is no try.
– Yoda, Jedi Master

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
– Henry Ford

Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
– Zig Ziglar

The longer you’re not taking action the more money you’re losing
– Carrie Wilkerson

If you want to be an entrepreneur, its not a job, it’s a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6pm – last thing at night you’ll send emails, first thing in the morning you’ll read emails, and you’’ wake up in the middle of the night. But its hugely rewarding as you’re fulfilling something for yourself.
– Niklas Zennstrom

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; its about trading: buying and selling
– Anita Roddick

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.
– Roy Ash

Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give – with a few exceptions – generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.
– Ben Silbermann

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team
– Reid Hoffman

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.
– Tim O’Reilly

My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.
– Ted Turner

Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that’s what’s missing with a lot of women in business.
– Martha Stewart

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
– Jim Rohn

If you’ve got an idea, start today. There’s no better time than now to get going. That doesn’t mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there’s always small progress that can be made to start the movement.
– Kevin Systrom

Its better to own the racecourse then the race horse

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people wont so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because your confident that you’ll catch a bird flying by. Its an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splay because the bird doesn’t come by, but a few times it does.
– Reed Hastings