Quotes About Entrepreneurship
When I first starting drafting up these quotes about entrepreneurship, I was doing so with the thought of inspiring people just really getting started in entrepreneurship. As that is where I am at. A couple years in.
But then it became something MUCH bigger. I wanted to not only inspire the newbies, but re-inspire people who have been in the game for longer than some of us have been alive.
To also inspire the people ready to give up. To keep going. To keep persevering. To never give up. To revisit that dream. That magic that started it all. What made YOU want to get into business for yourself in the first place.
For me, entrepreneurship has been without a doubt, the hardest thing I have ever tried to do in this life.
It has also given me the more happiness, energy, fulfillment and vehicle for contribution. Compared to anything else I have attempted to do in this life.
And because of that, I think it is a MUST for everyone on this earth to be at very minimum, self employed in some way, or at on a part-time basis.
I truly believe it is the “American Dream” or dream of wherever country you happen to hail from. I can only speak for American’s because I am one!
But wherever you are from, I believe that entrepreneurship is the ultimate key to happiness and purpose. And when we have purpose in our lives, we transcend our ego in a sense.
We starting looking to SERVE others, more so, then serve only ourselves.
We are making a difference in this life, living as entrepreneurs.
We create jobs. We offer goods and services that can alter ones life temporarily, or permanently.
Our passions keep us up late at night. And make us rise early in the morning.
It makes us keep going when we are tired and ready to give up.
The shot at “making it’ by ourselves and holding onto the success, is one of the most intoxicating, scary, powerful and life altering feelings we can feel. And we feel it on a daily basis.
So this list is for the dreamers, the doers, the people looking to take the power back. The female entrepreneur going up against stigmas that women shouldn’t be as ambitious. The young entrepreneur who is out to change the world, bright eyed and bushy tailed.
The struggling business owner, who is ready to quit, but needs that extra motivation to keep going.
And of course, maybe more than anything, every man and women who has gone before us. That has forged the way, INVENTED the wheel. Put together infrastructures, created CRMS, wrote the sales books, created business plans for us to follow.
Thank you so much for what you have done. You inspire me to become better everyday.
And without a doubt, YOU. We are partnered together, hand in hand, in this journey of entrepreneurship. I salute you, as you know just as much as I do, how stressful and tough MOST days can be.
But it is all worth it. When we lie our heads down at night, we know that we are doing what most will never do. We are CREATING.
We are only eating when and what we hunt. We don’t rely on someone, we are relied upon.
Without us, the dream would be dead.
Let’s keep it alive and well. And TOGETHER, inspire others to become the best version of themselves.
As this, I believe, in the ultimate gift of entrepreneurship.
I truly hope you enjoy this
Quotes About Entrepreneurship
Contents
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” – Steve Jobs
“Never start a business just to make money. Start a business to make a difference.” – Marie Forleo
“Remain self-funded as long as possible.” – Garrett Camp
“Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.” – Unknown
“I’m a doer, a dreamer a thinker. I see possibility everywhere.” – Nolan Bushnell
“Entrepreneurship is the last refuge for the trouble making individual.” – Mason Cooley
“Entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.” – Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
“I create, I take risks, I live my passion. I am an entrepreneur.” – Unknown
“Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.” – Peter Drucker
“The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a godo job, be happy with secure income and steady salary.” – Rashmi Bansal
“Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time.” – Elon Musk
“Entrepreneurship isn’t for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur. But women who turn to business turn to economics because there are people depending on them. I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what’s best about entrepreneurship.” – Gayle Tzemach
“An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew, hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.” – Roy Ash
“Whether you think you’re worth a $100 or $1000 you’re right.” – Danielle Leslie
“An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business. It’s someone who makes things happen.” – Tim Ferris
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
“You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.” – Jessica Herrin
“Entrepreneurship is not a part-time job and it’s not even a full-time job. It’s a lifestyle.” – Carrie Layne
“Entrepreneurship is about creating change, not just companies.” – Mark Zuckerberg
“It’s not about ideas, it’s about making ideas happen.” – Scott Belsky (Founder of Behance)
‘The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset.” – Michael Harris
“Don’t just commit to the sprint, commit to the marathon.” – Yulin Lee
“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” – Peter Drucker
“To be successful you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Unknown
“If you want to be an entrepreneur, it’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, going home at 6 PM. Last thing at night you’ll send emails, first thing in the morning, you’ll read emails, and you’ll wake up in the middle of the night. But it’s hugely rewarding as you’re fulfilling something for yourself.” – Niklas Zennstrom
“The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” – Unknown
“If you are not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.” – Unknown
“A real business man or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understands this, the sky’s the limit.” – Jack Ma
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Unknown
“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.” – Carrie Fisher
“I am an entrepreneur because life is too short to work in a cubicle.” – Unknown
“Everyone can tell you the risk, the entrepreneur can see the reward.” – Robert Kiyosaki
“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.” – Peter Drucker
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
“Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.” – Robert Kiyosaki
“Know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.” – Dave Thomas
“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” – Robin Sharma
“You do not get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.” – Chester L. Karrass
“If you want more money in your business, stop waiting on other people, start serving more people, start sharing your story, start loving your work, start giving and you’ll start receiving.” – Howard Britt
“Stop selling, start helping.” – Zig Ziglar
“People don’t car about your business, they care about their problems. Be the solution that they’re looking for.” – Melonie Dodard
“We don’t even realize something is broken until someone else show us a better way.” – Alexis Ohanian
“Perseverance is the key to starting a successful business.” – Sara Blakely
“When you start a business, go for the low hanging fruit.” – Ice T
“Start where you are, use what you have.” – Unknown
“Take pride in the products you make, the service you provide and the company you build. Give more damns than anyone else.” – Alexis Ohanian
“When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough, you’ll find a way to get it.” – Jim Rohn
“A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it’s staring up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. Think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk taker.” – Ann Bancroft
“It’ never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
“Dear entrepreneurs, you can start a thousand businesses, launch 100 projects and take dozens of companies public, but you only have one shot at being part of your kid’s childhood.” – John Acuff
“Make it happen, shock everyone.” – Unknown
“If you want to fly, you have to just trust you a lot.” – Steve JObs
“The most exciting business ideas fit on the back of an airplane napkin.” – Carmine Gallo
“Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not only necessary only in business, but it’s necessary for running countries, too. You’ve got to be able to believe in something so strongly enough that you want to do it even if there’s a risk of failure.” – Bernard L. Schwartz
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” – Peter Drucker
“There is no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination and more drive.” – Sophie Kinsell
“Without entrepreneurs, there can be no prosperity. Without effective policy, entrepreneurs cannot succeed.” – Unknown
“Entrepreneurship is the way we take control of our lives in a tough economy.” – Lori Greiner
“No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long-term if you don’t have a sufficiently good product.” – Sam Altman
“That’s why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting a business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.” – Steven Kotler
“Be picky with who you invest your time in, wasted time is worse than wasted money.” – Unknown
“Creating opportunities means looking where others are not.” – Mark Cuban
“Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one, a global idea, not a strictly American one.” – Reid Hoffman
“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
“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.” – Josh James
“I you know too much before you start, then you will get overwhelmed. Come up with an original idea, and don’t copy because there will be no passion. You need that otherworldly passion. Just start.” – Jeni Britton
“You have to get good at ceding control and not taking things to personally. Even seasoned entrepreneurs have struggled with that. I think it’s about not taking failures personally and also not taking successes personally. – Leila Janah
“No matter how many customers you have, each is an individual. The day you start thinking of them as this amorphous collection, and stop thinking of them as people, is the day you start going out of business.” – Dharmesh Shah
“Being a woman in business doesn’t come without challenges. My advice? Surround yourself with other supportive women that encourage you, share ideas and get you motivated.” – Jessica Alba
“The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more we have hope. That requires some reforms in the African governments, rooting out corruption, increased transparency and how government operates, making sure that regulations are not designed just to advantage elites, but are allowing people who have a good idea to get out there and get things done.” – Barack Obama
“Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem.” – Ratan Tata
“It’s important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.” – Mark Zuckerberg
“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
“When you believe in yourself, your community will believe in you.” – Darell Austin
“Entrepreneurship is the engine fueling innovations, employment generation and economic growth. Only by creating an environment where entrepreneurship can prosper and where entrepreneurs can try new ideas and empower others can we ensure that many of the world’s issues will not go unaddressed.” – Klaus Schwab
“5AM, the hour where legends are either waking up or going to bed.” – Unknown
“Entrepreneurship is the freedom to do what you want, when you want, how you want.” – Jeet Banerjee
“Don’t pick a job with great vacation time. Pick one that doesn’t need escaping from.” – Unknown
“Entrepreneur: A crazy person who risks their own money for freedom, rather than exchanging their freedom for money.” – Unknown
“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
“Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.” – Richard Branson
“Willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.” – Unknown
“Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.” – Jeff Bezos
“Entrepreneurship gets a lot easier if you’re organized and consistent.” – Henry Kennedy
“Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.” – Brian Tracy
“Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.” – Mark Zuckerbeg
“You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you’re asking for money.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
“Entrepreneurship is not a job, nor even a calling, but a hunger.” – Luke Johnson
“If you are determined and want it, you can just go for it.” – Melanie Perkins
Start A Business Quotes
“If people like you, they will listen to you, but if they trust you, they will do business with you.” – Zig ZIglar
“Entrepreneurship isn’t just a label, it’s a lifestyle.” – Richard Branson
“You start a business and you really don’t have much of a budget.” – Fred Deluca
“Everyone can ell you the risk. An entrepreneur can see the reward.” – Robert Kiyosaki
“Try not to become a man of success, rather a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
“No body talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.” – Anita Roddick
“Starting a business isn’t for everyone ,and it’s not what you should do if you aren’t sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It’s more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment and often shame.” – Kathryn Minshew
“Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it’s starting a new business, whether it’s leaving home, whether it’s getting married, whether it’s flying into space.” – Chris Hadfield
“Starting your own business is like riding a roller coaster. There are highs and lows and every turn you take is another twist. The lows are really low, but the highs can be really high. You have to be strong, keep your stomach tight, and ride along with the roller coaster that you started.” – Lindsay Manseau
“What do you need to start a business? Three simple things, know your product better than anyone, know your customer and have a burning desire to succeed.” – Dave Thomas
“Great companies start because the founders want to change the world, not make a fast buck.” – Gary K
“Starting your own business isn’t for everyone, but for the right people it’s much better than climbing the corporate ladder.” – Brian O’Reilly
“If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.” – Fran Tarkenton
“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby
“If your business is not on the internet, then your business will be out of business.” – Bill Gates
“The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends and family and neighbors.” – Napoleon Hill
“We worked hard and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage, into a 2 billion dollar company with over 4000 employees.” – Steve Jobs
“A hard thing is done by figuring out how to start.” – Rand Fishkin
“I had no choice but to boss up and create my own lane.” – Unknown
“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard
“So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.” – Simon Sinek
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
“A business starts small.” – Richard Branson
“Starting a business is often a triumph of heart over logic.” – Unknown
“The joy is in getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you’re in the pit together are the best years of your life. So rather being focused on when you get big and powerful, you can get the juice out of it. Don’t miss it.” – Barbara Corcoran
“Don’t get distracted. Never tell yourself that you need to be the biggest brand in the whole world. Start by working on what you need to do tomorrow. So, set yourself manageable targets.” – Jas Bagniewski
“If I was starting my entrepreneurial career all over again, I would start with a network marketing or direct sales business, not for the money, but for the real world business training I could receive, training similar to the type of training my rich dad gave me.” – Robert Kiyosaki
“As you start a new business, I wish that failure is behind you, success is in front of you, good luck is by your side.” – Unknown
“Do not focus on numbers. Focus on doing what you do best. It’s about building a community who want to visit your site everyday because you create value and offer expertise.” – Cassey Ho
“Everyone I know has a dream they hope to fulfilling, traveling, starting a business, buying a house, whatever. And every time they spend money on unnecessary luxuries, they’re stealing money and life from their dreams, they’re prioritizing something that really has no value compared to what really matters.” – Amanda Lanely
“Never too young to start an empire. Never too old to chase a new dream.” –
“Its a great day to start something big.” – Unknown
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
“Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it, as it is about the product they sell.” – Elon Musk
“Don’t start a business. Find a problem. Solve a problem. The business comes second.” – Robert Herjavec
“Time for a new business model for the 21st century. For starters, retire that outdated and creepy clown. You can be a true leader by stop exploiting children. I guarantee the millennials market you’re after will reward you for it. I know the public health will applaud you, staring with myself.” – Michele Simon
“Hustle until your hates ask if you’re hiring.” – Unknown
“Starting a business is not as difficult as you think if you have a desire to make it succeed.” – Unknown
“Experience brings acceptance of the fact that you cannot do everything yourself. I find people who start businesses later in life understand the value in surrounding themselves with people who are better than them at some things. Experience shows you the benefit of accepting advice from others.” – Sheila Holt
“The key to success is to start before you are ready.” – Marie Forleo
“Too many start up businesses fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.” – Michael LeBoeuf
“Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs, the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.” – Unknown
“As you star a new business, I wish that failure is behind you, success is in front of you, good luck is by your side.” – Unknown
“It’s sounds boring, but anything is easy to start – starting a novel, starting a business, it’s keeping the thing going that is difficult.” – Prue Leith
“If you can offer a free tier product that provides a lot of value, it will naturally help your product spread much more rapidly.” – Melanie Perkins
“Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them, and reward them, if you do all those things effectively, you can’t miss.” – Lee Iaocca
“When things get tough, it’s always good to remember why you started your business in the first place.” – Unknown
“Owning a business means you’re facing your fear every day as you fail and soar, sometimes simultaneously.” – Mindy Schoeneman
“The elevator to success is out of order, you’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” – Joe Girard
“Good leaders are willing to sacrifice to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice people to save the numbers.” – Simon Sinek
“Never ever start a business with your close friends. You will either lose friends or lose business.” – Swapreeth
“The best way to get started in business, is to stop talking and start doing.” – Bill Todd
“Success is the sum of all efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
“Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start with a great idea, but how no real familiarity with the business world.” – Gavin Newson
“The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning, to create a product or service, to make the world a better place.” – Guy Kawasaki
“You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.” – Jessica Herrin
“Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the staircase.” – Martin Luther King
“When you start with what’s at stake for the buyer, you earn the right to their attention.” – Jake Sorofman
“No one forces you to work at Wal-mart. Start your own business. Sell something to Wal-mart!.” – Kevin OLeary
“When starting a business just for earning money, your situation is just like the rabbit with a carrot tied on his head.” – B.P. Sing
“Starting a business is like hypothesis testing, you don’t know what is right until you do it.” – Ashok Reddy
“When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.” – Tamara Melon
“I would rather be tired than broke.” – Unknown
“I want our nation to take responsibility to make sure that every single child can look out the window in the morning and see a whole community getting up and going to work. We want these young people to know the thrill of the first paycheck, the challenge of starting that first business, the pride in following a parents footsteps.” – William J. Clinton
“Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and the work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.” – Mark Cuban
“Whatever you are thinking, think bigger.” – Tony Hsieh
“You are not best friends if you haven’t had thought of starting a business together.” – Aakash Singh
“You read a book from the beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.” – Jessamyn West
“Some couples could not work together, but we enjoy working on our projects and building our art business.” – Dwayne Hickman
“Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It’s an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and them employ your expertise at your own company.” – Marc Benioff
“For those working menial jobs or putting in 100 hour work weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside and ownership.” – Kathryn Minshew
“People have come to the erroneous conclusion that they are not willing to start something separate, world-changing and risky, they have no business starting anything. Somehow we fooled ourselves into believe that the project has to have a name, building, and a stock ticker symbol to matter.” – Seth Godin
“If someone wants to start a business, but they don’t have an idea that they are specifically passionate about, then it may not be the right time for them to start it. Instead, they should work with someone else who is doing something they care about in the meantime until an idea comes up.” – Omar Samra
“When you make a business, you’re making a little world.” – Derek Silvers
“Money is a very fundamental ingredient in anyone starting up a new business” – Lloyd Dorfman
“When you start out in the wresting business, you make a lot of mistakes. Tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.” – Jack Welsch
“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” – Oprah Winfrey
“I remember when I was young, I was watching TV, and my father came into the room, agitated and told me to start a business. I was eight years old.” – Sebastian Maniscalco
“You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.” – Unknown
“My advice is to focus on the importance of forging long term relationships, whether with colleagues, partners or customers. It is often easy to get caught up in short term decisions.” – Sheila Lirio Marcelo
“It’s important to realize that brand is much more than a logo and slogan. A brand is who your company is, how you function and make decisions.” – Joanna McFarland
“Starting a business and thinking about how you can grow something and fulfill both expectations and needs of your retailers and still stay exciting for the runway, you sort of becoming this left brain, right brain person pretty quickly.” – Joseph Altuzarra
“The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something.” – Seth Godin
“Only the paranoid survive.” – Andy Grove
“Don’t let others convince you that the idea is good when your gut tells you it’s bad.” – Kevin Rose
“When in doubt, bootstrap. Use your own personal resources is the easiest way to start a business. You don’t have to convince investors about the merits of your idea. You just have to convince yourself.” – Ryan Holmes
“Starting a company extracts so much energy and conviction that not having a clear cut goal an meaningful mission can hamper your success. This is why, at Virta, our mission was clearly defined. Reverse early type-2 diabetes in 100 million people by 2025.” – Sami Inkinen
“It is necessary to find a mentor who can invest time to know your personal capabilities and business model.” – Nigel Davies
“If you are starting something on your own, you better have a passion for it, because this is hard work.” – Sallie Krawcheck
“Be nicer to your customers than your competitors.” – Richard Reed
“Don’t be upset about the results you didn’t get, from the work you didn’t do.” Unknown
“The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India’s transformation in the new milennium.” – Dhirubhai Ambani
“If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.” – Azim Premji
“Look back at your life, it’s always the hardest times that made you who you are.” – Casey Neistat
“You gotta work to get it. You gotta work twice as hard to maintain it.” – Unknown
“Action is the key to all success.” – Unknown
“What is dangerous is not to evolve.” – Jeff Bezos
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that changes really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg
“If you live for weekends or vacations, your s*** is broken.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
“When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can oftentimes arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don’t put in the time or energy to get there.” – Steve Jobs
“The shoes should fit. You can’t build a business that is not yours.” – Hockson Floin
“You can build your business life where you are working with the people you want to work with. Then it become a pleasure, and then you can do better.” – Andy Morgan
Small Business Quotes
“As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamourous work.” – Kevin McCarthy
“A small businesses ability to gain an edge for a profitable niche is not by just focusing on the dynamic market gap, but by identifying a market within the gap.” – Wayne Chirisa
“When you are supporting a small business, you are supporting a dream.” – Unknown
“Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card. How you leave others feeling after an experience with you becomes you trademark.” – Jay Danzie
“A big business starts small.” – Richard Branson
“To Build a successful business, you must start small and dream big, in the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.” – Aliko Dangote
“Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient and the persistent. It is for the overcomer.” – Unknown
“When you buy from a small business, you are not helping a CEO buy a third vacation home, you are helping a little girl get dance lessons, a little boy get his team jersey, a mom put food on the table, a dad pay a mortgage or a student pay for college.” – Unknown
Quotes About Business
“Micromanage the process, not the people.” – Joe Apfelbaum
“To me, success depends on employees. For me, knowing and connecting with my employees is very important.” – Divine Knhlukula
“Never deceive others, in business or in life. In 1995, I was deceived by four companies, four companies that are now closed, company cannot go far by deceit.” – Jack Ma
“If you are going to be in business, you must learn about money, how it works, how it flows, and how to put it to work for you.” – Idowu Koyenikan
“The purpose of the business is to create and keep a customer.” – Peter Drucker
“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” – Richard Branson
“People are the most important thing. Business model and product will follow if you have the right people.” – Adam Neumann
“If you are not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.” – Unknown
“I try to make myself happy, no, because I know I’m not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are no happy.” – Jack Ma
“Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans worthy of respect.” – Unknown
“The richest people in the world look for and build networks. Everyone else looks for work.” – Robert Kiyosaki
“If you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you can solve. It’s about solving the social problems.” – Jack Ma
“The best way to determine the values you will enforce in your business is to clarify your personal values.” – Doris P. Johnson
“Your business values can make you soar above the competition.” – Doris Perdue-Johnson
“CRM is rather boring in itself. It’s the fortune you can make using a CRM that makes it so interesting.” – Michael McCafferty
“I may be over the top on this, but I just don’t want to like my competitors. I want my people to believe that whoever he and our other competitors succeed, we will be less able to do all the things we want to do.” – Phil Knight
Start Up Businesses Quotes
I am a big fan of small business ownership. I think it’s the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.” – Bill Rancic
“When you are building a start up, it’s difficult. Particularly, a startup that is expanding at the rate of Tinder. You have to give 100% and you have to be committed. Solving the problem has to be personal or else you are doing to disintegrate.” – Sean Rad
“Innovative ideas are the golden wealth of a growing business.” – Wayne Chirisa
“Give away your best information. Building this trust with prospects will result in bigger financial returns than bland content.” – Stacey Kehoe
“Ignore the hype of the startups that you see in the press. Mostly, it’s a pack of lies. Half of these startups will be dead in a year. So, focus on building your business so you can be left standing.” – Jules Pieri
“Don’t assume that borrowing lots of money can make your start up fly. There are many things to the business other than investors, and it’s possible to succeed with your startup without breaking the bank.” – Barnaby Lashbrooke
“Your ability to attract, evaluate, and forge strong working relationships with co-founders, early employees, and investors often mean the difference between failures and successes.” – Clara Shih
“There are two kinds of companies, those that work to raise prices and those that work to lower them.” – Jeff Bezos
“You have to work on the business first before it works for you.” -Idowu Koyenikan
“Once you believe that you are infallible, that success will automatically lead to more success, and that you have “got it made” reality will be sure to give you a rude wake-up call. Believing your own bulls*** is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of the start-up venture.” – Felix Dennis
“And fifth, we will champion small business, America’s engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on businesses, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small businesses the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.” – Mitt Romney
“70 percent of small businesses are owned and operated by a single person.” – United States Small Business Association Office of Advocacy
“As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.” – Sue Kelly
“Starting a small business takes a lot more than a great idea. It takes passion, commitment, and a willingness to take on any challenge in pursuit of your dream.” – Gail Goodman
“Being a small business owner is tough these days. It used to be that big business thought and operated on a much bigger, wider scale. These days, they’re becoming specialized, and moving into niches in the market.” – Shawn Magliano
“IT’s far more difficult being a small business owner starting a small business than iti s for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it’s difficult to hold your family life together. Its bloody hard work and only one world really matters, and that’s surviving.” – Richard Branson
Business Plan Quotes
“Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan, it’s simply too dangerous to the health of your business.” – Alexander Osterwalder
“Quality is the best business plan.” – John Lasseter
“Start a business plan for yourself, not anyone else.” – Alexa Von Tobel
“Set your business plan to win, raise the bar or you’re not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you’re doing will make you $100 million dollars.” – Swizz Beatz
“Going public is not a business plan.” – Henry Kravis
“A business plan won’t survive it’s first encounter with reality. The reality will always different. It will never be the plan.” – Jeff Bezos
“Just like a script you need to keep a business plan to yourself.” – Preity Zinta
“No business plan survives first contact with customers.” – Steve Blank
“If your business plan depends on you suddenly being discovered by some big shot, your plan will probably fail.” – Simon Cowell
Women Entrepreneur Quotes (Female Entrepreneur Quotes)
“On my own I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn’t I’ll create something else. I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could be or do.” – Oprah Winfrey
“I learned to always take on things I’d never one before. Growth and comfort do not co-exist.” – Virginia Rometty, CEO, IBM
“Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.” – Anne Sweeney
“The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me?” – Ayn Rand Author & Philosopher
“It’s within everyone’s grasp to be a CEO.” – Martha Stewart
“I have never worked a day in my life without selling. I I believe in something, I sell it, and a I sell it hard.” – Estee Lauder
“Starting a small business has been one of the best choices I ever made, I have grown and have learned, and have been able to explore my creativity in ways that I would not have been able to had I not take that first step.” – Rawa Founder, Peachhcake LLC
“Investing in women is smart. Organizations what are the most inclusive of women in top management achieve 35% return on equity and 34% better total return to shareholders versus their peers.” – Caroline Cummings VP of Business Development, Palo Alto Software
“My husband always tells me that I’m the most unrelenting person he’s ever met, and it’s true. If I make a commitment to something, I will stick to it no matter what.” – Jenny Craig Co-Founder, Jenny Craig Inc.
“I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundred of the women of my race.” – Madam C.J. Walker – Founder, Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company
“You never lose in business, either you win or your learn. Never hire someone you can’t fire. Choose your life partner carefully. An unsupportive spouse can kill a business faster than a bad marketing plan.” – Melinda F. Emerson – Author, Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months
“If it doesn’t scare you, you’re probably not dreaming big enough.” – Tory Burch
“The most important journey of your lives doesn’t necessarily involve climbing the highest peak or trekking around the world. The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
“It was a risk. I had a husband and I was pregnant with my oldest son. But I don’t look at risks the way other people do. When you’re an entreprenur, you have to go in feeling like you’re going to be successful. Taking risks can be one thing that can set you apart from your peers. Believe in yourself and don’t be afraid of the possibility of things going wrong. You will never know what you can achieve until you give it a go.” – Lillian Vernon
“There is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise.” – Unknown
“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” – Arianna Huffington
“The future isn’t a place that we’re going to go. It’s a place that you get to create.” – Nancy Duarte
“Someone else’s opinion of you is none of your business.” – Rachel Hollis
“We need to get women to the point where they aren’t apologizing. It’s time to take ownership in our success.” – Tory Burch, CEO and Designer, Tory Burch
“Life-fulfilling work is never about the money, when you feel true passion for something, you instinctively find a way to nurture it.” – Eileen Fisher
“Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.” -Anne Sweeney
“An amazing team, a vibrant community, and a goal worth chasing. Giving every Indian woman a dream of the career of her choice, that is our mantra.” – Sairee Chahol
“Stop telling yourself you don’t know what to do. Yes, you do. Listen to your intuition and trust yourself.” – Katherine Sullivan
“I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.” – Coco Chanel – Founder, CHANEL
“I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe that we are all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose. When you connect with that love and that compassion, that’s when everything unfolds.” – Ellen DeGeneres
“Little girls with dreams become women with vision.” –
“Dear optimist, pessimist and realist. While you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist.” – Lori Greiner
“Knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better.” – Sheryl Sandberg
“Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.” – Hilary Clinton – Presidential Candidate
“If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.” – Marissa Mayer – CEO, Yahoo! Inc
“I wake up every morning an think to myself, ‘How far can I pus the company forward in the next 24 hours?” – Leah Busque Founder and CEO, TaskRabbit
“Don’t waste a single second, just move forward as fast as you can and go for it.” – Rebecca Woodcock – Co-founder and CEO, Cake Health
“I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age, knew I was responsible for myself and I had to make good.” – Oprah
“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” – Sara Blakely – CEO and Founder of Spanx
“Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.” – Barbara Ann Corcoran – Founder The Corcoran Group
“When my company started really growing, I didn’t have any help in my house at all. I had the upkeep of my daily life. I had a one year old and a three year old and I had my house. So I had to prioritize.” – Julie Aigner Clark – Entrepreneur & Founder, Baby Einstein
“I don’t believe in failure. It’s not failure if you enjoyed the process.” – Oprah Winfrey Founder, Harpo, Inc
“What I learn from talking to so many women around the world. IF you can empower them with the right things, the right tools, they can lift up their family. And that ultimately lifts up their community and their society.” – Melinda Gates Co-Founder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
“The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.” – Barbara Ann Corcoran
“Sometimes reinventing the wheel is actually a great thing to do.” – Meredith Perry – CEO UBEAM
“Sometimes women entrepreneurs are their own challenge, in terms of believing in themselves. There is no need to apologize for being ambitious.” – Tory Burch
“I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.” – Coco Chanel
“The more we can break rules, the better off we’re going to be.” – Indra Nooyi – CEO Pepsi Co
“The question is not whether you have the money. It is whether you have the hustle. There’s a difference.” – Nicky Verd
“The most successful entrepreneurs I know are optimistic. It’s part of the job description.” – Caterina Fake – Flickr
“A women’s best protection is here own money.” – Clare Boothe Iuce
“If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” – Michele Ruiz President and CEO of Ruiz Strategies
“If you don’t know what your passion is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.” – Oprah
“A man is not a financial plan.” – Kim Kiyosaki
“It is important to be wiling to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.” – Sara Blakely
“Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally. It coms from what you do consistently.” – Marie Forleo
“I didn’t get there by wishing for it, or hoping for it, but by working for it.” – Estee Lauder
“If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.” – Marissa Mayer
“If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.” – Indra Nooyi
“Success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.” – Michelle Obama
“The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.” – Barbara Corcoran
“I want every little girl who’s told she’s bossy, to be gold instead she has leadership skills.” – Sheryl Sandberg
“I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, ‘Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own succes’. I wish I could tell that to my daughter.” – Sheryl Sandberg
“You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way on your terms.” -Marissa Mayer
“Somebody once said, educate a woman and you will educate a family. IO am saying empower a woman to become an entrepreneur and you will create an entire family of entrepreneurs. Woman entrepreneurship is the need of the nation right now. It’s the surest and quickest way to make India a superpower.” – Vishwas Mudagal
“There is no innovation and creativity with failure. Period.” – Brene Brown
“Women are as capable as men and this needs to be the focus of our eduation, that women can be whatever they want to be.” – DJ Zinhle, FUSE Academy
“Having a great work culture is not an option, it’s a necessity.” – Vani Kola
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