Motivational Business Quotes For Entrepreneurs and Startups

Our Team has carefully selected the best ever Entrepreneurship quotes by highly successful entrepreneurs for all our readers.

 

 

 

1. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” -Winston Churchill

 

2. “The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.” – Socrates

3. “Anything that is measured and watched, improves.” -Bob Parsons

 

4. “Always deliver more than expected.” – Larry Page 

5. “Stay self-funded as long as possible.” -Garrett Camp

 

6. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill

7. “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

 

 

 

8. “If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.” -Marissa Mayer Best Business Quotes

9. “Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined and connected to one another. And, when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.” -Daniel Pink Best Entrepreneurship Quotes

10. “Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.” -Angelo Sotira

 

   11.“Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.” -Jason Calacanis Best Startup Quotes

 

12. “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.” -Anthony Volodkin

 

13. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” -Estee Lauder

 

 

14. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.” -Jeff Bezos

 

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

 

16. “If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.” -Zig Ziglar

 

17. “It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.” -Jason Cohen

 

18. “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” -Reid Hoffman

 

19. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” -Henry David Thoreau

 

20. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” -Thomas Edison

21. “No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the week.” — Spencer Fry

 

22. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” -Jack Dorsey

 

23. “I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.” -Jake Nickell

24. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” -David Brinkley

25. “See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” — Larry Ellison

 

  26.”Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” -Bill Gates

27. “You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.” -Peter Shankman

 

28. “Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.” -Mark Cuban

 

29. “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier

 

30. “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” -Mark Zuckerberg

 

31. “Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.” — Noah Everett

 

32. “If you define yourself by how you differ from the competition, you’re probably in trouble.” -Omar Hamoui

 

33. “Data beats emotions.” – Sean Rad (Business Quotes on Data and numbers)

 

34. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” -Walt Disney

 

35. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” -Larry Page

 

36. “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” -Lisa Stone

   

   37. “Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.” – Michael Dell

 

38. “If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.” – Pierre Omidyar

 

39. “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

40. “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.” – Josh James

 

41. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.” – Henry Ford

 

42. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” – Scott Belsky

43. “All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.” — Reid Hoffman

 

44. “Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” – Golda Meir

 

45. “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” — Bill Gates

46. “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.” -Jason Fried (Quotes for entrepreneurs)

 

47. “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.” -Steve Case

 

48. “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.” -Reid Hoffman

 

49. “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” -Oprah Winfrey

 

50. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” -Tony Hsieh

 

51. “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

 

52. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

 

53. “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.” -Tony Hsieh

 

54. “The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.” -Ingvar Kamprad

 

55. “Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.” -Sara Blakely

 

56. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” -Drew Houston

 

57. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

58. “Nothing works better than just improving your product.” – Joel Spolsky

 

59. “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” — Arianna Huffington

 

60. “Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.” – Mark Pincus (Business Quotes)

61. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.” — Benjamin Franklin

 

62. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” -Steve Jobs

 

63. “It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.” — Mark Cuban

 

64. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” -Colin R. Davis

 

65. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” — Howard Schultz

 

66. “Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.” -Chris Dixon

 

67. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” — Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures

 

68. “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” -Wayne Huizenga

 

69. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney

 

70. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” -Helen Keller

 

71. “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” — Caterina Fake

 

72. “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.” – Paul Rand

73. “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.” — Bill Gates (Best Quotes for Entrepreneurs)

 

74. “Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.” -Lakshmi Mittal

 

75. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!” -Jonathan Winters

 

76. “Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.” -Jeffrey Zeldman

 

77. “Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” -Peter Drucker (Business Quotes)

 

78. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” -Stephen Hawking

 

79. “Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it” -Ryan Allis (Best Ever Startup Quotes)

 

80. “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” -Rob Kalin

 

81. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” -Ralph Nader

 

82. “If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.” -Ryan Freitas

 

83. “Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.” -Jim Rohn

 

84. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” -Thomas Edison

 

85. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” -Winston Churchill

 

86. “Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.” -Michael Arrington

 

87. “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” -John Wayne

 

88. “Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.” -Tony Hsieh

 

89. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” –Aristotle

 

90. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” -Biz Stone

 

91. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” –Maya Angelou

 

92. “An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.” -David Karp

 

93. “Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things” – David Ogilvy

 

94. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” – Guy Kawasaki (Business Quotes)

 

95. “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” -Napoleon Hill

 

96. “Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.” -Kyle Bragger

 

97. “Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki

 

98. “Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.” -Joel Spolsky (Best Business Quotes)

 

99. “Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.” – Baltasa

 

100. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” – Seth Godin

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