Motivational Quotes for Entrepreneurs

"Screw it, let’s do it!"

"People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it."

"Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you."

"Don’t wait for the perfect time, you will wait forever. Always take advantage of the time that you’re given and make it perfect."

"Without hustle, your talent will only get you so far."

"Hustle is the most important word – EVER."

"Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else."

"Every moment in business happens only once."

"Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine."

"You never lose in business, either you win or you learn."

"Don’t be afraid to fail. Failure teaches us the most valuable lessons."

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

"Every risk is worth taking as long as it’s for a good cause and contributes to a good life."

"Failure is not the outcome. Failure is not trying."

"If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure."

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

"Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try."

"If you’re good enough, no one is stopping you."

"Grind and sweat, toil and bleed, face the abyss. It's all part of becoming an overnight success."

"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."

"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."

"It’s not in the dreaming, it’s in the doing."

"I would rather be a failed entrepreneur than someone who never tried. Because even a failed entrepreneur has the skill set to make it on their own."

"I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."

"It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed. You only have to be right once."

"If you really want to do something, stop telling yourself you can’t do it."

"Stop whining, start hustling."

"Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day."

"Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset."

"Work hard. Be kind. Take risks."

"You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity-a piece of a business-to gain your financial freedom."

"You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."

"You’re gonna die, do something about it."

"The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance."

"The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson, or anyone in any position can control is their effort."

"Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless."

"It’s not about how much you sleep. It’s what you do while you’re awake."

"Stay true to yourself and your vision. Don’t let any outside force or situation take you off your course."

"Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius."

"Opportunities lie in the place where the complaints are."

"All defeats are temporary. There is no one person with a permanent black cloud following them."

"Don’t give up on your dreams just because they’re not happening right now."

"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

"Every no gets me closer to a yes."

"Don’t just think outside the box, crush it."

"You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don’t do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it."

"You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen."

"Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love."

"Do what makes you happy. Keep it simple. Do the research. Work hard. Look ahead."

"Today’s ‘best practices’ lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried."

"If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!"

"Legacy is greater than currency."

"Your attitude is more important than your capabilities. Similarly, your decision is more important than your capabilities."

"Take a chance. It’s the best way to test yourself. Have fun and push boundaries."

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"You don’t have to work for a big corporation if you don’t want to. Start your own. Start your own business."

"Kindness is karma."

"You’ve got to visualize where you’re headed and be very clear about it. Take a Polaroid picture of where you are going to be in a few years."

"If you want to create and capture lasting value, don’t build an undifferentiated commodity business."

"What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you-what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind-you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy."

"Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is."

"The moment you have an instinct to act on a goal, apply the 5-second rule."

"You are not a lottery ticket."

"If you want to win in the 21st century, you have to empower others, making sure other people are better than you are. Then you will be successful."

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

"The best marketing strategy ever: CARE."

"Every week is different for me, so I understand that I have to turn challenges into opportunities, demonstrating that persistence and courage pay off."

"If you believe that what you’re doing will have positive results, it will – even if it’s not immediately obvious."

"There is never a bad time to start a business – unless you want to start a mediocre one."

"The more you experience the challenge of failure, the stronger and wiser you become."

"Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world."

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."

"Align yourself with the right people, forge the right relationships and you’ll set yourself up for the long run."

"Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action."

"Don’t focus on you, focus on what you can give others."

"Success is waking up every day and doing what you want to do."

"Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses."

"Courage is contagious."

"The energy you’ll expend focusing on someone else’s life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol."

"If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table."

"Don’t let fear be a roadblock."

"Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."

"If you can outsource something or not do something for less than your hourly rate, outsource it or don't do it."

"You only live once. So do what you feel passionate about. Take chances, professionally. Don’t be afraid to fail."

"I'm not going to continue knocking on that old door that doesn't open for me. I'm going to create my own door and walk through that."

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."

"One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out."

"Perfection is the enemy of profitability."

"A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better."

"No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story."

"We've been making our own opportunities, and as you prove your worth and value to people, they can't put you in a box. You hustle it into happening, right?"

"Opportunity does not knock; it presents itself when you beat down the door."

"If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting."

"You didn’t grow up driving…you figured it out."

"Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do."

"If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness."

"Everything in life is luck."

"If you’re co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don’t do your chores, the company won’t succeed. No task is too menial."

"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."