Making the decision to become an entrepreneur and start your own firm can be difficult. You’ll never know what you’re capable of unless you try. Here are great 61 inspirational quotes for successful entrepreneurs to help inspire you to take the initial step.
“If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.”
Dhirubhai Ambani (Founder – Reliance Industries)
Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs from Top Business Leaders:
“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 (Co-founder of Apple)
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
Elon Musk (CEO of Tesla and SpaceX)
“One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.”
Jeff Bezos (Founder of Amazon)
“It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.”
Warren Buffett (CEO of Berkshire Hathaway)
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
Mark Zuckerberg (Co-founder of Facebook/Meta)
“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
Bill Gates (Co-founder of Microsoft)
“Business opportunities are like buses; there’s always another one coming.”
Richard Branson (Founder of Virgin Group)
“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.”
Larry Page (Co-founder of Google)
“You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything you have believed.”
Oprah Winfrey (Media Executive, Philanthropist)
“Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.”
Jack Ma (Founder of Alibaba)
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Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs by Well-Known Motivational Gurus:
“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.”
Tony Robbins
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
Zig Ziglar
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
Jim Rohn
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
Les Brown
“Dream big. Start small. Act now.”
Robin Sharma
“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.”
Brian Tracy
“Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.”
Simon Sinek
“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”
Eric Thomas
“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”
Napoleon Hill
“Avoidance is the best short-term strategy to escape conflict, and the best long-term strategy to ensure suffering.”
Brendon Burchard
Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs from Successful Businesswomen:
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”
Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Meta)
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change their future by merely changing their attitude.”
Oprah Winfrey (Philanthropist)
“Failure is not the outcome — failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.”
Sara Blakely (Founder – Spanx)
“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 (Founder – The Huffington Post)
“Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.”
Indra Nooyi (Former CEO – PepsiCo)
“Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities. Know that there is no finish line; fortune favors action.”
Sophia Amoruso (Founder – Nasty Gal)
“Do every job you’re in like you’re going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.”
Mary Barra (CEO – General Motors)
“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions.”
Whitney Wolfe Herd (Founder – Bumble)
“We may live in an age of instant messaging, instant gratification, and Instagram, but there is no way to short-circuit the path to success.”
Tory Burch (Fashion Designer)
“A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.”
Melinda Gates (Co-chair – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
Inspirational Quotes for Small Business Owners & Entrepreneurs
Here are some inspiring quotes specifically for small business owners and entrepreneurs:
“There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.”
Seth Godin; entrepreneur
“Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.”
Barbara Corcoran (Real Estate Mogul)
“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”
Jason Fried, co-founder- 37signals
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas Edison (Inventor)
“In life, you have to take risks. If you’re not afraid to go to the edge, you’re not living.”
Howard Schultz (CEO – Starbucks)
“Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.”
Shonda Rhimes (producer, and author)
“Don’t give up, don’t take anything personally, and don’t take no for an answer.”
Sophia Amoruso (Founder – Nasty Gal)
“High expectations are the key to everything.”
Sam Walton (Founder – Walmart)
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”
Henry Ford (Founder – Ford Motor Company)
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Walt Disney (Co-founder – The Walt Disney Company)
Inspirational Quotes About Failure as a Business Owner or Entrepreneur
“Don’t worry about failure. You only have to be right once.”
Drew Houston (co-founder and CEO – Dropbox)
“My best successes came on the heels of failure.”
Barbara Corcoran (founder – The Corcoran Group)
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
Henry Ford
“In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success, if you are willing to learn from it.”
Paul Allen (co-founder – Microsoft Corporation)
“Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.”
Arianna Huffington (Founder – The Huffington Post)
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
Steve Jobs (Co-founder – Apple)
“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
Robert Kiyosaki (Author – Rich Dad Poor Dad)
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
Seth Godin
“I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.”
Colonel Harland Sanders (Founder – KFC)
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Bill Gates
Motivational Quotes When You Feel Like Giving Up
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
Nelson Mandela
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
Babe Ruth (Baseball Player)
“Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”
Vince Lombardi (NFL Coach)
“The moment when you feel like giving up is right before your breakthrough.”
Victoria Arlen (actress and former Paralympian swimmer)
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Catherine Pulsifer (Author)
“The difference between success and failure is not giving up.”
Steven Redhead (Professor and Author)
“Every problem is a gift – without problems, we would not grow.
Anthony Robbins (Author and Speaker)
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
Vidal Sassoon (Hair Stylist and Businessman)
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius (Philosopher)
“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan (Basketball Player)
