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Building a successful business is hard work. That’s why we can all benefit from motivational and inspiring entrepreneur quotes.
Use the quotes to learn from the decades of experience these business owners and investors have to offer you.
Sometimes one short quote can leave a ripple effect that impacts you years to come. So don’t underestimate these entrepreneur quotes.
Pin them to your favorite Pinterest board for go-to motivation. Print them and hang them around your desk. Or journal about how you can apply them to your own life.
But for now, just soak up the inspiration and motivation and then go and take MASSIVE INSPIRED ACTION!
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“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
“Constraints drive innovation and force focus. Instead of trying to remove them, use them to your advantage.” ― 37 Signals
“Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” – Oprah Winfrey
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
“I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.” – Larry Ellison
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
“When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.” – Larry Ellison
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker
“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” – Peter Drucker
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.” – Peter Drucker
“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” – Peter Drucker
Entrepreneur Quotes For Aspiring Business Owners
“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.” – Peter Drucker
“The purpose of a business is to create a customer.” – Peter Drucker
“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.” – Thomas J. Watson
“You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure.” ― Thomas J. Watson
“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” – Thomas J. Watson
“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity.” – Thomas J. Watson
“Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.” – Thomas J. Watson
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” – Thomas J. Watson
“Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous – not just to some people in some circumstances – but to everyone all the time.” – Thomas J. Watson
“Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.” – Thomas J. Watson
“I had no dreams of such economic success. You should have fun and not be so weighed down by expectations.” ~ Sergey Brin
“Money is just a consequence. I always say to my team, ‘Don’t worry too much about profitability. If you do your job well, the profitability will come.'” – Bernard Arnault
“In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.” – Bernard Arnault
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
“I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.” – John D. Rockefeller
Quotes For Future Forbes Listers
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” – John D. Rockefeller
“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” – John D. Rockefeller
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” – John D. Rockefeller
“If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.” – John D. Rockefeller
“Believe in your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem.” – Walt Disney
“Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.” – Walt Disney
“The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.” – Walt Disney
“The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.” – Walt Disney
Well, did the entrepreneur quotes get you fired up? If you are now ready to take massive inspired action towards your entrepreneurial dreams, write ‘Let’s Get It!’ into the comments.
Also, what was your favorite quote? And do you already know what kind of business you want to have?
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Until next time, Felicity Seeker!
