120 Entrepreneur Quotes To Become A Successful Businessman

If you are looking for just insight, advice, or tips on how the businessman confronts challenges then these entrepreneur quotes are just for you.

As we grow in our life and learn new things, we tend to attract to the careers that excite or interest us. Think of your childhood. Was there someone, you always loved hearing about their work and what did they do? Did they have their own business? Being an entrepreneur, you can address a variety of needs in business, economics, etc. Entrepreneurs tend to solve the problem of unemployment by providing job opportunities to people in need.

Even though anyone can become an entrepreneur. It does not require any degree nor any specific professional requirements but it takes a lot more than that. It takes lots of knowledge, passion, and hard work to run any business and the only person who can run a business is someone who is willing to take risks and is ready to handle failure.

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So in simple terms, an entrepreneur is someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise. They are known to take greater risks than average business people. Economists see entrepreneurship as a necessary resource in production. So basically, entrepreneurs use land, labor, and capital and provide goods and services that help in giving back to the economy.

Starting any company is like a roller coaster ride of emotions but what makes an entrepreneur unbeatable is their drive to achieve success and work hard for the benefit of the company as well as for the community.

Encouraging words especially are said by some of the most successful entrepreneurs have an immense power to inspire you and pull you back on track. Entrepreneur quotes remind us that every single entrepreneur in history has faced difficulties and you are not alone in this journey. But the ability to face their failure head-on and overcome all their hurdles are the things that make a person successful. It does not matter, what makes you start on this journey, what is important right now is that you need the inspiration to continue and these entrepreneur quotes will provide you exactly the same here.

So here we are sharing a collection of entrepreneur quotes by some of the very successful entrepreneurs all around the world to make you feel inspired and to continue this journey with a positive and refreshing mindset.

Entrepreneur Quotes

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

“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

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

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

“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

“It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates

“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.” Warren Buffett

“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint—and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.” Oprah Winfrey

“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.” – Jim Rohn

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

Motivational Quotes For Entrepreneurs

“The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.” Mark Twain

“Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves—their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.” – Peter Drucker

“When you build technology it’s not just a matter of “what.” In most cases the success ends up determined by “how” you build it—which foundations you used, how simple and scalable it is.” – Tobi Lütke

“There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” Elon Musk

“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

“If someone is refusing you it doesn’t mean you are on the wrong track or that you are offering some worthless opportunity, product or service, whenever that person understands what you were offering they will find you” ― Anuj Jasani

“I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.” – Virginia Rometty

“People don’t take opportunities because the timing is bad, the financial side unsecure. Too many people are overanalyzing. Sometimes you just have to go for it.” – Michelle Zatlyn

“Don’t try to have it all. Aim for what matters most and what you’re willing to consistently work for. Don’t judge yourself and don’t judge others. Help other women lift each other up.” – Jessica Herrin

“It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed. You only have to be right once.” – Mark Cuban

Best Entrepreneur Mindset Quotes

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi

“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

“Success depends on employees. For me, knowing and connecting with my employees is very important.” – Divine Ndhlukula

“Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone. The best reward is to get there surrounded by winners.” – Howard Schultz

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

“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

“No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible, be the unexpected.” – Lynda Barry

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

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder

“Whatever you do, be different—that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out.” – Anita Roddick

Successful Business Woman Quotes

“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn

“Business opportunities are like buses: there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson

“The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.” – Jeff Bezos

“Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.” – Peter Drucker

“If you broke a lot of rules as a kid, you’d probably make a great entrepreneur.” – Harley Finkelstein

“It’s important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.” – Sara Blakely

“I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company grows.” – Garrett Camp

“As a CEO, I am finding that I have to become a learning CEO. I have to go to school all the time because I am learning new skills that I need to run this company and I am realising that I am not equipped to just coast. I have to constantly renew my skills.” – Indra Nooyi

“And I’d say one of the great lessons I’ve learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really, when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.” – Steve Case

Women Entrepreneurs Quotes

“It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.” – Simon Sinek

“Whatever you do, don’t play it safe. Don’t do things the way they’ve always been done. Don’t try to fit the system. If you do what’s expected of you, you’ll never accomplish more than others expect.” – Howard Schultz

“Before teaching your child anything, teach them the basic lessons of entrepreneurship so that they can become an independent human being on this planet” ― Anuj Jasani

“Making the decision to not follow a system or someone else’s rules has allowed me to really dig into what my own strengths and gifts are without spending time feeling jaded or wasteful.” – Ishita Gupta

“In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“As a leader, it’s a major responsibility on your shoulders to practice the behavior you want others to follow.” – Himanshu Bhatia

“Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble-making individual.” – Natalie Clifford Barney

“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. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” Steve Jobs

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”Albert Einstein

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”Coco Chanel

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“Life-fulfilling work is never about the money⁠—when you feel true passion for something, you instinctively find ways to nurture it.” – Eileen Fisher

“I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.” – Walt Disney

“Entrepreneurs must have a vision that others do not currently recognise. People may feel that their ideas are hypotheses and impose a high level of uncertainty, but that is what entrepreneurship is all about: putting everything on the line for a view you believe in.” ― Santosh Kalwar

“Importantly, in a great team, you argue about ideas totally independent of ego. In great teams, the success of your idea is independent from your success. Just helping to find the best idea matters.” – Tobi Lütke

“Don’t start a business unless it’s an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession.” – Mark Cuban

“If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.” – Drew Houston

“If you concentrate on small, manageable steps you can cross unimaginable distances.” ― Shaun Hick

“A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.” – Mark Twain

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” – Seth Godin

“If you’re an entrepreneur and you’ve started a business that you’re growing from the ground up, just know that its okay to get a job somewhere else while you build up the business. For probably most entrepreneurs, that’s just part of the journey. There’s no shame in that.” ― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

Inspirational Quotes For Entrepreneurs

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk

“I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.” – Larry Page

“It’s stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective, and are able to align the interest of a great team.” – Steve Case

“Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.” ― Ryan Lilly

“If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you’re going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.” – Russell Simmons

“The most successful people in the world today are entrepreneurs” ― Sunday Adelaja

“You are where you are today because you stand on somebody’s shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. It’s the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give.” – Vernon Jordan

“If you are working with no vision to be own your own boss, you are no different from people who are unemployed” ― Sunday Adelaja

“All humans are entrepreneurs, not because they should start companies, but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA, and creation is the essence of entrepreneurship.” – Reid Hoffman

“The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.” – Vince Lombardi

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“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill

“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” Mae Jemison

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

“Vision without action is a daydream.” – Karthik Shankar

“One of the things I’ve learned about vision is people will grab it mentally or, have a crab mentality.” ― Onyi Anyado

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

“I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.” – Marissa Mayer

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

“Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.” – Reid Hoffman

Female Entrepreneur Quotes

“Don’t pass up something that’s attractive today because you think you will find something better tomorrow.” – Warren Buffett

“An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.” ― Robert A. Rice Jr.

“There’s this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it’s done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.” – Drew Houston

“Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you’ve got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don’t start, you never get a chance.” – Seth Godin

“There is no better measure of your values than how you spend your time.” – Scott Belsky

“People think innovation is just having a good idea, but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.” – Scott Belsky

“Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?” ― Onyi Anyado

“My advice for anyone thinking of starting their own business is, above all, don’t wait. If you get an idea in the shower in the morning, try to make it the next day.” – Harley Finkelstein

“You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.” – Jessica Herrin

Young Entrepreneur Life Quotes To Become A Successful Businessman

“Opportunists seek for a chance.
Entrepreneurs make new chances.” ― Toba Beta

“Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.” – Marva Collins

“Aspiring entrepreneurs have to actually do something that they feel strongly passionate about, and in most cases they should seek inspiration from their own experience. … If you had a terrible experience, you should despise the experience to the extent that you are continuously seeking a solution for it.” – Best Ayiorwoth

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

“It’s time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you.” – Iyanla Vanzant

“Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.” – Sadie Delany

“You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can’t go wrong. The world is behind you.” – Josephine Baker

“But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it’s inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can’t really work for other people.” ― Kelly Cutrone

“Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day, until you reach your goal.” – Ava DuVernay

“The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” ― Nolan Bushnell

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“You can and should set your own limits and clearly articulate them. This takes courage, but it is also liberating and empowering, and often earns you new respect.” – Rosalind Brewer

“Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move.” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana

“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.” – Larry Page

“Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It’s the mastery of fear. It’s about getting up one more time than we fall down.” – Arianna Huffington

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” – Simon Sinek

“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

“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

“If you don’t love what you do, you won’t do it with much conviction or passion.” – Mia Hamm

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein

Being An Entrepreneur Quotes

“Startups are the truest passion projects.” – Vinay Kanchan

“The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself.” ― Idowu Koyenikan

“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.” – Napoleon Hill

“You know you’re doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights….” ― Donny Deutsch

“I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” – Madam C.J. Walker

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” – Henry Ford

“If people haven’t laughed at your dreams, then you aren’t dreaming big enough. Just keep pushing forward.” – Daymond John

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar

“Your brand must communicate the value that you bring to a working relationship.” ― idowu koyenikan

Did you get inspired by Entrepreneur quotes?

Starting your business is always difficult. First, you have to come up with an idea, then invest your time and money in it and then be ready for the failure if this does not work out. But if your startup started to grow, it feels like all the patience and hard work you have put on was worthwhile.

However, just like seeds, many businesses failed to grow and even die within one to three years after launch. Even though there are many reasons for the failure of the business but one of the main reasons is the lack of research and not having a proper business plan.

So if you are struggling to exist in the market, looking for tips to grow your business, and seeking advice to learn through your failure, we hope these entrepreneur quotes will help you in all the matters related to your business.

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