30+ Best Quotes for Entrepreneurs
fm Forbes.com Zine 29 May 14 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz
The nature of being an Entrepreneur means that you fully embrace ambiguity and are comfortable with being challenged regularly. Choosing this career path is completely irrational, because the odds of succeeding are dismal, but most succeed because of their unwavering belief, laser focus on delivering & persistence.
Starting a company is a riveting Roller Coaster ride of emotions with tremendous highs – and at times, difficult lows – but one thing that always helps me through the ups & downs is to connect with some of the greatest minds of successful Entrepreneurs. Below are just a few of my favorite quotes:
1. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker, Mgt Guru
2. “Winners never quit & quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi, Top NFL Coach
3. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs, Apple & Pixar
4. “My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had — everyday I’m learning something new.” – Richard Branson, Virgin Co’s
5. “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you & others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.” – Oprah Winffrey, richest woman in the world
6. “It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates, MicroSoft – richest man in the world
7. “It takes 5 years to build a reputation & 5 minutes to ruin it. Keep this in mind, when making your choices. – Howard Schultz, CEO, Starbucks
8. “You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.” – Jeff Bezos, Amazon
9. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison, #1 Inventor of all time
10. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”– Albert Einstein (from his book “It’s all Relative”) LoL
11. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm and keep trying.” – Winston Churchill
12. ”Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.” – Thomas Edison
13. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
14. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, & the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi, top NFL coach
15. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill, motivation Author
16. “Success is not what you have, but who you are, what you think of yourself.” – Dr Joyce Brothers, Psychiatrist
17. “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people don’t have the courage to, so you can spend the rest of your life like most people cant.” Richard Branson
18. “To win without risk, is to triumph without glory.” Mark Zukerberg
19. “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, Author
20. “There is only one Success in life – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” Steve Jobs, Apple
21. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill, motivational author
22. “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, explorer
23. “What is not started will never get finished” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German philosopher
24. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.” – Malcolm Forbes, business magazine
26. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn, motivational speaker
28. “The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can’t learn anything from being perfect all the time.” – Jack Ma, Alibaba
29. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell, Author
30. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader, Author
31. “Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius, Chinese philosopher
32. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
Comments: Are there any Quotes you can add to this?