The definition of success is different for everyone, whether it’s personal or professional we are always looking at improving in some area of our life. We all need some inspiration from time to time and that is why we have compiled a list of 50 Best Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs that will help contribute to your success. These are the Quotes by Famous Entrepreneurs.
1. “You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
Steve Jobs
2. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.”
Dhirubhai Ambani
3. “Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.”
Ryan Freitas, About.me co-founder
4. “Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.”
Angelo Sotira, deviantART co-founder
5. “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, O’Reilly Media founder and CEO
6. “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Tony Robbins
7. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas A. Edison
8. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
9. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know & start charging for it.”
Kim Garst, Founder and CEO of Boo! Social, a personal branding and social media business consulting firm.
10. ”A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley
11. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.”
Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO
12. “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs
13. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
Vince Lombardi,
14. “Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”
Jeffrey Zeldman, A List Apart Publisher
15. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
Thomas Edison
16. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea”
Larry Page, Co-Founder of Google
17. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft
18. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently… A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”
Henry Ford, Founder of the Ford Motor Company
19. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”
Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO
20. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walter Elias a.k.a. ‘Walt Disney, Co-Founder of Walt Disney Productions
21. “The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”
Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA founder
22. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
Steve Jobs, Apple Inc. co-founder
23. “Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.”
Mark Cuban, AXS TV chairman and entrepreneur
24. “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.”
Jeff Bezos, Chairman and CEO of Amazon
25. “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, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathawa
26. “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, Co-Founder of Apple
27. “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, Chairman of the Virgin Group
28. “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”
Jason Fried
29. “If there’s something you want to build, but the tech isn’t there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.”
Dennis Crowley, Foursquare co-founder
30. “Fail often so you can succeed sooner.”
Tom Kelley
31. “Nothing works better than just improving your product.”
Joel Spolsky, Stack Overflow co-founder
32. “We are currently not planning on conquering the world.”
Sergey Brin, Google co-founder
33. “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”
Paul Rand, Graphic Designer
34. “If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.”
Ryan Freitas, About.me co-founder
35. “Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”
David Karp, Tumblr founder and CEO
36. “Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”
Michael Arrington, TechCrunch founder and co-editor
37. “Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.”
Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO
38. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
Guy Kawasaki, Alltop co-founder
39. “Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.”
Joel Spolsky, Stack Overflow co-founder
40. “Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”
Bob Parsons, GoDaddy founder
41. “The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.”
Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO
42. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”
Seth Godin, Squidoo founder
43. Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”
Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder
43. “When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’ “
Tom Preston-Werner, Github co-founder
44. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”
Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO
45. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”
Larry Page, Google co-founder
46. “I doubt I’ll ever go back to corporate work. Once you see the light, there is no turning back.”
Magnus Jepson, WooThemes co-founder
47. “A ‘startup’ is a company that is confused about – 1. What its product is. 2. Who its customers are. 3. How to make money.”
Dave McClure, 500Startups co-founder
48. “It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”
Jason Cohen, Smart Bear Software founder
49. “All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder
50. “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, LinkedIn co-founder
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