A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. Henry Kravis
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. Peter Drucker
Be nicer to your customers than your competitors. Richard Reed
Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t. Unknown
Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. Jim Rohn Entrepreneur Quotes
When in doubt, bootstrap. Using 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 and 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
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. Nolan Bushnell
Face reality as it is. Not how it was or how you wish it to be. Jack Welch
Five days a week, I read my goals before I go to sleep and when I wake up. There are 10 goals around health, family and business with expiration dates, and I update them every six months. Daymond John
Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society – and especially in the economy – as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. That is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur. It was intended as a manifesto and as a declaration of dissent: the entrepreneur upsets and disorganizes. As Joseph Schumpeter formulated it, his task is ‘creative destruction.’ Peter F. Drucker
Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs
Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible and then gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged. Thomas Edison
The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated. Jeff Bezos
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Henry David Thoreau
It’s very important for entrepreneurs to look for people in the company who are not afraid of failures, for example, intrapreneurs. They make a business more successful by thinking like an entrepreneur — but within a company. Chirag Kulkarni
Life isn’t about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
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
If we tried to think of a good idea, we wouldn’t have been able to think of a good idea. You just have to find the solution for a problem in your own life. Brian Chesky
It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. Bill Gates Entrepreneur Quotes
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words ‘I did not have time.’ Franklin Field
Failures are life’s way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school. Sara Blakely
I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars — I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over. Warren Buffett
It is better to burn out than it is to rust out. Neil Young
There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed. Ray Goforth
Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are. Richard Branson
Quotes for Developing an Entrepreneurs Mindset
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
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates
Selling is not a pushy, winner-takes-all, macho act. It is an empathy-led, process-driven, and knowledge-intensive discipline. Because, in the end, people buy from people. Subroto Bagchi
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. Denis Waitley
I’m always tweaking, always trying to make it better, constantly moving the levers and dials. Steve Ells
We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in. Arianna Huffington
I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. Thomas Edison
The best way to predict your future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln
Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing. Peter Drucker
You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end. Jessica Herrin
In real estate it is location, location, location. In business it’s differentiate, differentiate, differentiate. Robert Goizueta
You have to get good at ceding control and not taking things 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
The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be. Reid Hoffman
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. Jim Rohn
Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration. Thomas Edison
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Jim Rohn
I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. Steve Jobs
Middle-class thinkers fail and retreat back to their comfort zone. World class thinkers fail and keep starting over until they succeed. Champions aren’t any smarter, more educated, or ambitious than the average person, but they are far more resilient. While middle class thinkers process their failures through emotion, world class thinkers process failure through logic. Middle class thinkers are ashamed of failing while world class thinkers see their resilience as a testament to their toughness. Steve Siebold, author, How Rich People Think
I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist. Virginia Romett
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
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 Entrepreneur Quotes
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Peter F. Drucker
An entrepreneur is an individual who creates a new business, bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards. An individual who establishes a new company while taking on the majority of the associated risks and reaping the majority of the potential benefits is known as an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship refers to the action of beginning the process of establishing a new firm. It is standard practice to view the entrepreneur as an innovator or a person who is the source of new ideas, products, services, and business practices.
If you’ve ever been told (or believe) that becoming an entrepreneur is simple, perhaps think again.
Films and books tend to focus on achievement rather than difficulties, problems, and setbacks.
Nobody loves to bring up the endless sleepless nights, office conflicts, and bad times.
Being an entrepreneur takes a great deal of dedication, guts, and persistence. But even with those combinations, there’s no certainty you’ll be able to develop the company of your dreams, making the money you have set out to make.
Independence, a flashy lifestyle, income, and the flexibility to make your own decisions are just some of the perks of being your own boss.
Being an entrepreneur isn’t an easy path to take, but the payoff is well worth the difficulty.
If you don’t want to be an 8-to-5 worker forever or can’t stand your unpleasant boss, becoming a business owner could be the best choice for you.
Remember to reward yourself. Being an entrepreneur is demanding, so don’t forget to take a vacation now and again to reap the benefits. Take advantage of the freedom and control that entrepreneurship gives, and be proud of the equity you’re generating in your company.
Above are the top entrepreneur sayings to encourage you to grind and outwork your rivals in your current (or next) venture.
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