20 Quotes to Inspire the Entrepreneur in You
If being an entrepreneur was easy, we’d all be our own bosses. But taking the leap to start your own business with no guarantee of success takes a tremendous amount of courage that not all of us can admit to.
The road to success can be bumpy. Sometimes we need the insight of others who have overcome what we’re going through to give us hope that we’ll make it too.
Here are 20 of my go-to quotes for when I need to find inspiration:
1: “If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney
2: “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill
3: “If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
4: “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
5: “All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.” — Reid Hoffman
6: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas Edison
7: “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
8: “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
9: “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 other’s 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
10: “If something is important enough, or you believe something is important enough, even if you are scared, you will keep going.” — Elon Musk
11: “When you cease to dream you cease to live.” — Malcolm Forbes
12: “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” — Vince Lombardi
13: “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
14: “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” — Steve Jobs
15: “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein
16: “Everyone has an idea, but it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea.” — Jack Dorsey
17: “The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.” — Meg Whitman
18: “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” — Mark Twain
19: “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
And lastly, a personal favorite:
20: “Screw it, let’s do it.” — Richard Branson
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