The life of an entrepreneur is a turbulent one. Full of ups and downs, excitement and sorrow – often all at once. If you fail, it’s on you. But if you succeed, it’s on you, too. It can be quite liberating.
And while there are many factors that contribute to the success of new entrepreneurs, one of the most significant is access to expert guidance and advice.
Here’s 50 quotes, from big dreamers who made it happen, to help you on your own business journey.
Read them, stick them on your wall, feel inspired. Bookmark this page, and come back when you need a boost. Then take action.
Let’s begin.
1. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Walt Disney
2. “Don’t give them what they want. Give them what they never dreamed was possible.”
Orson Welles
3. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan
4. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.”
Oprah Winfrey
6. “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
Henry Ford
7. “Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote.”
Travis Kalanick
8. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
Steve Jobs
9. “If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do, and you’ll achieve the same results.”
Tony Robbins
10. “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
11. “Genius is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent perspiration.”
Thomas Edison
12. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
Warren Buffett
13. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
Albert Einstein
14. “It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.”
Paul Graham
15. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill
16. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”
John Maxwell
17. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
Napoleon Hill
18. “You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.”
Erica Jong
19. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
Steve Martin
20. “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
25. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney
26. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
Robert H. Schuller
27. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
Gloria Steinem
28. “A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
John A. Shedd
29. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
Warren Buffett
30. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
31. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller
32. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
Ralph Nader
33. “Success is not what you have, but who you are.”
Bo Bennett
34. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
Babe Ruth
35.“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
Albert Schweitzer
36. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”
Sheryl Sandberg
37. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”
Biz Stone
38. ”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
39. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
Bill Gates
40. “What is not started will never get finished”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
41. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
Farrah Gray
42. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.”
John C. Maxwell
43. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”
Napoleon Hill
44. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas Edison
45. “If anybody ever did it, then you can, too.”
Gary Vaynerchuk
46. “When you cease to dream, you cease to live.”
Malcolm Forbes
47. “Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”
Vince Lombardi
48. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
Steve Jobs
49. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
50. “Do. Or do not. There is no try.”
Yoda
What quotes inspire you in your business? Feel free to share in the comments below.
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