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159 Quotes for Entrepreneurs From Visionaries Who Changed the World

  • October 7, 2022
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Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage, determination, and resilience to start your own business and see it through to success. That’s why it’s important to be inspired by those who have gone before you, and learn from their successes and failures. Here’s a curated collection of quotes about entrepreneurs intended illustrate the ways in which true visionaries think about life and business.

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Being an entrepreneur isn’t easy. It takes a lot of hard work, dedication, and resilience. But if you’re up for the challenge, it can be one of the most rewarding paths you’ll ever take. If you’re looking for some inspiration, check out these quotes for entrepreneurs from some of the most visionary entrepreneurs who have ever lived. These quotes will help to motivate and encourage you on your own entrepreneurial journey. So get ready to be inspired!

Quotes For Entrepreneurs

The stars will never align, and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.

Tim Ferriss

Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

Ben Silbermann

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.

Socrates
Quotes about entrepreneurs 1

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.

Anthony Volodkin

What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.

Dave Thomas

If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.

Jeff Bezos

If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.

Zig Ziglar

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.

Reid Hoffman

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

Thomas Edison

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

Jack Dorsey

Always deliver more than expected.

Larry Page

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

Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.

Mark Cuban

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates

If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

Mark Zuckerberg

When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.

Josh James

It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.

Scott Belsky

Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Golda Meir

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.

Tony Hsieh

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

Reid Hoffman
Quotes about entrepreneurs 2

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

Ingvar Kamprad

Nothing works better than just improving your product.

Joel Spolsky

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.

Mark Pincus

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

Tim O’Reilly

Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.

Chris Dixon

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Steve Jobs

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller

Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.

Paul Rand

Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

Jeffrey Zeldman

The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.

Rob Kalin

If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.

Ryan Freitas

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

Michael Arrington

Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

Wayne Huizenga

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

Guy Kawasaki

An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.

David Karp

Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.

Kyle Bragger

All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.

Reid Hoffman
Quotes about entrepreneurs 3

Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.

Joel Spolsky

Anything that is measured and watched, improves.

Bob Parsons

Stay self-funded as long as possible.

Garrett Camp

Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.

Tony Hsieh

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

Biz Stone

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined and connected to one another. And, when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

Daniel Pink

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.

Jason Calacanis

It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.

Jason Cohen

No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the week.

Spencer Fry

You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.

Peter Shankman

Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.

Noah Everett

Data beats emotions.

Sean Rad

I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.

Estee Lauder

I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.

Jake Nickell

See things in the present, even if they are in the future.

Larry Ellison

You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

Larry Page

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Michael Dell

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau
Quotes about entrepreneurs 4

Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.

Henry Ford

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Bill Gates

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.

Steve Case

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

Oprah Winfrey

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.

Reid Hoffman

Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.

Tony Hsieh

Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.

Sara Blakely

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Benjamin Franklin

A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.

Fred Wilson

Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.

Howard Schultz

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

Charles R. Swindoll

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Walt Disney

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Stephen Hawking

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

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Les Brown

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

Steve Jobs
Quotes about entrepreneurs 6

You Are Never Too Old To Set Another Goal Or To Dream A New Dream.

C.S. Lewis

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

Mary Anne Radmacher

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou

Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.

Roy T. Bennett

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Oprah Winfrey

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

Sir Claus Moser

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Michael Jordan

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Colin R. Davis

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.

Thomas J. Watson

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

Winston Churchill

Today’s Accomplishments Were Yesterday’s Impossibilities.

Robert H. Schuller

Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.

Seth Godin
Quotes about entrepreneurs 7

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

David Brinkley

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.

Tony Hsieh

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

Bill Gates

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. 

G. K. Chesterton

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

Conrad Hilton

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

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or, are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance? 

Jill Konrath

The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

Barack Obama

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas Edison

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does — that makes you a winner right there.

Venus Williams

Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely on my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

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
Quotes about entrepreneurs 8

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Earl Nightingale

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.

Chuck Yeager

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Bill Gates

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Paulo Coelho

A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Colin Powell

There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

Heather Bresch

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

Pele

No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work.

Jonathan Sacks

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D. Rockefeller

If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Jim Rohn

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

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Forbes
Quotes about entrepreneurs 9

If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.

Marissa Mayer

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Nelson Mandela

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Stephen Covey

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.

Paulo Coelho

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

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Richard Branson

It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

Mark Cuban

Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

Drew Houston

Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.

Jack Canfield

Life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Henry Ford

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.

J.K. Rowling

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty—six times I’ve been trusted to take the game—winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

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

Zig Ziglar

What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes about entrepreneurs 10

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.

Lily Tomlin

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

Will Rogers

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Benjamin Franklin

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Edison

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Alan Turing

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.

Stephen Hawking

The accident is your training. Life is a choice. You can choose to be a victim or anything else you’d like to be.

Socrates

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

John Keating

You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

Eames

Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever matter.

John Nash

If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Steve Jobs

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. H.

Jackson Brown Jr.

The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

Don’t count the days, make the days count.

Muhammad Ali

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle
Quotes about entrepreneurs 10

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

Karen Lamb

Someday is not a day of the week.

Janet Dailey

Parting Words

As an entrepreneur, it’s important to be constantly inspired and reminded of why you do what you do. That’s why we loved putting together this list of quotes for entrepreneurs from visionaries who have changed the world. We hope that these quotes will inspire you as much as they continue to inspire us.

Have any other quotes about entrepreneurs you’d add to the list? Which is your favorite? Let us know in the comments below!

You might also enjoy these related quote collections:

  • Quotes About Taking Risks
  • Quotes About Financial Freedom
  • Quotes From Nassim Taleb
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