Need some motivation and inspiration?
Looking to take your business to the next level?
Here are a list of the best positive inspirational and motivational quotes for entrepreneurs that will boost your confidence, give you courage, and inspire you to become your best self so that you can lead your business with determination and passion.
As a business owner, you know that the most important tool you have is your mind because without it, you cannot solve problems or make good decisions.
Each day you will be faced with a set of challenges and obstacles and how you choose to face them will not only determine the future of your business, but your character as well.
Only 50% of all new businesses will make it to their fifth year.
Do you want to be one of them?
On this page you will find quotes, phrases, thoughts, sayings, and words of encouragement about:
– Hard times and overcoming adversity
– Success and achieving your goals
– Grinding and hustling
– Laziness and excuses
– Overcoming fear and self doubt
– Hard work, perseverance, and never giving up
– Confidence, courage, and believing in yourself
Along with quotes from successful business leaders on what it means to be an entrepreneur.
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MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES FOR ENTREPRENEURS
Stop doubting yourself. Work hard and make it happen. – Unknown
It never gets easier. You just get better. – Jordan Hoechlin
Tough times don’t last. Tough people do. – Robert H. Schuller
Hustle until your haters ask if you are hiring.
A little progress each day adds up to big results. – Unknown
Focus on your goal. Don’t look in any direction but ahead. – Unknown
A year from now…we’ll see who was really working. – Unknown
You have to be at your strongest when you’re feeling at your weakest. – Unknown
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. – Maya Angelou
Don’t try to be perfect. Just try to be better than you were yesterday. – Unknown
INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FOR ENTREPRENEURS
Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it. – Unknown
Be so good they can’t ignore you. – Steve Martin
Goals may give focus, but dreams give power. – John Maxwell
You are the only one who can limit your greatness. – Unknown
The things you regret most in life are the risks you didn’t take. – Unknown
You don’t want to look back and know you could have done better. – Unknown
At first they’ll ask you why your’e doing it. Later they’ll ask how you did it. – Unknown
In every success story, you will find someone who made a courageous decision. – Peter Drucker
Never stop trying. Never stop believing. Never give up. Your day will come. – Unknown
Results happen over time, not overnight. Work hard, stay consistent, and be patient. – Unknown
Courage is taking those first steps toward your dreams even if you can’t see the path ahead. – Unknown
There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits. – Unknown
ENTREPRENEUR QUOTES FOR SUCCESS
Work hard in silence. Let success make the noise. – Unknown
When it gets difficult is often right before you succeed.
If you are afraid of failure, you don’t deserve to be successful. – Charles Barkley
Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day-in and day-out. – Robert Collier
Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time. – Arnold H. Glasgow
Success is what happens after you have survived all of your disappointments.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino
The path to success is to take massive, determined action. – Tony Robbins
Success doesn’t just come and find you, you have to go out and get it. – Unknown
If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. – Steve Jobs
BE AN ENTREPRENEUR QUOTES
I can and I will. Watch me. – Carrie Green
Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start. – Simon Sinek
The best way to predict your future is to create it. ― Peter F. Drucker
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. – Robert Half
If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working for it. – Unknown
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. – Ray Bradbury
If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business. – Ray Kroc
You don’t have to be great to start. But you do have to start to be great. – Zig Ziglar
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. – Farrah Gray
Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it. – Unknown
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. – Muhammad Ali
Don’t miss out on something that could be great just because it could also be difficult.
There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them. – Seth Godin
The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you’ll fail ten times for every success. – Adam Horwitz
An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business. It’s someone who makes things happen. – Tim Ferris
You can have everything you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want in life. – Zig Ziglar
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash
One day you will wake up and there won’t be any time to do the things you’ve always wanted to do. Do it now. – Paulo Coelho
Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial. – Ciputra
Entrepreneur – A crazy person who risks their own money for freedom, rather than exchanging their freedom for money.
I think, as an entrepreneur, you have to see the unlimited amount of potential but concentrate on your day and just keep building. Jon Oringer
Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.
Almost every successful person begins their journey with two core beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.
A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur. – Naveen Jain
QUOTES FROM SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS
Ideas are sh*t. Execution is the game. – Gary Vaynerchuk
Focus on being productive instead of busy. – Tim Ferris
As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning. – Daymond John
Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors. – Chris Dixon
Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.
Whatever you do, be different. If you’re different, you will stand out. – Anita Roddick
I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that. But I would regret not trying. – Jeff Bezos
Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you. – Tony Hsieh
Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical. – Howard Schultz
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again. Except this time more intelligently. – Henry Ford
We are never in lack of money. We lack people with dreams who can die for those dreams. – Jack Ma
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. – Elon Musk
Move fast and break things. If you are not breaking things, you are not moving fast enough. – Mark Zuckerberg
The entrepreneur always searches for change and responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity. – Peter Drucker
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. – Biz Stone
Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week for someone else. – Lori Greiner
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to just try one more time. – Thomas Edison
Everyone has an idea, but it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea. – Jack Dorsey
Success seems to be connected with action, Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. – Conrad Hilton
It takes twenty years to build a reputation. And five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. – Warren Buffet
I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. – Steve Jobs
From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better. – Richard Branson
It’s not about money or connections — it’s the willingness to outwork and out learn everyone… And if it fails, you learn from what happened and do a better job next time. – Mark Cuban
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better. – Jeff Bezos
QUOTES ABOUT BEING A SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR
Stop selling. Start helping. – Zig Ziglar
Always deliver more than expected. – Larry Page
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. – Bill Gates
Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once. – Drew Houston
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” – Martin Luther King
The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master. – Richard Branson
The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.
Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in life. It’s about what you inspire others to do.
The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something. – Seth Godin
When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue. – Josh James
All things equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, people they know trust and like. – Bob Burg
Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career. — Ryan Freitas
Successful people build each other up. They inspire, motivate, and push each other. Unsuccessful people just hate, blame, and complain.
People want to do business with you because you help them get what they want. They don’t do business with you to help you get what you want. – Don Crowther
Successful people have fear. Successful people have doubts. Successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them. – T. Harv Ecker
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out. ― Steve Jobs
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