15 Quotes to Inspire your Inner Entrepreneur

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3 min readJul 11, 2016

Today we present you with 15 quotes from inventors, sports figures, entrepreneurs, authors and more designed to inspire, motivate or just put a smile on your face.

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
- Muhammad Ali, Olympic and professional boxer and activist

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”
- Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Enterprises

“There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.”
– J. Paul Getty, Former oil tycoon and once the richest man in America

Thomas Edison | Image Credit

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

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
Peter Drucker, management consultant, educator and author

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”
– Robert T. Kiyosaki, author, entrepreneur and investor

“The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities.”
- Michael Gerber, author and entrepreneur

Nikola Tesla | Image Credit

“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”
- Nikola Tesla, inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist and futurist

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

“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”
- Mario Andretti, World Champion racing driver

“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake — you can’t learn anything from being perfect.”
- Adam Osborne, author, book and software publisher and computer designer

Mark Twain | Image Credit

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover”
- Mark Twain, author

“Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.”
- Natalie Clifford Barney, playwright, poet and novelist

“An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.”
- Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries

Steve Jobs | Image Credit

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
- Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.

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