Entrepreneur Quotes to Stay Focused On Your Goals

Entrepreneur Quotes

• “I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” — Steve Jobs

• “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” — Gloria Steinem

• “What is not started will never get finished” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• “Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.” — Ryan Freitas, co-founder About.me

• “Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.” — Mark Cuban

• “Failure is not about insecurity, it’s about lack of execution.” — Jeffery Gitomer, business trainer

• “Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.” —  Tim Westergren, Pandora Founder

• “Fail often so you can succeed sooner.” — Tom Kelley, founder Ideo

• “High expectations are the key to everything.” — Sam Walton, founder of Walmart

• “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.” — Josh James, co-founder and CEO Omniture, founder and CEO Domo

• “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 drowns 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

• “Have the end in mind and every day make sure you’re working towards it.” — Ryan Allis, co-founder, and CEO iContact

• “When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.” — Robert Kiyosaki, founder Cashflow Technologies Inc.

• “You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.” — Steve Jobs, founder, chairman and CEO Apple Inc.

• “Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.” — Donald Trump

• “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” — Warren Buffett

• “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” — John Maxwell

• “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” — Ralph Nader

• “How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.” — Yvon Chouinard, founder Patagonia

• “Hire character. Train skill.” — Peter Schultz, founder, and director GNF

• “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently… A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” — Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company

• “If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.” — Pierre Omidyar, founder, and chairman eBay

• “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.” — Reid Hoffman, co-founder LinkedIn

• “But as an entrepreneur, you have to feel like you can jump out of an airplane because you’re confident that you’ll catch a bird flying by. It’s an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go play because the bird doesn’t come by, but a few times it does.” — Reed Hastings, CEO Netflix

• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain

• “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.” — Warren G. Tracy’s

• “I stand up on my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.” — Robin Williams

• “Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.” — Chris Dixon, co-founder, and CEO Hunch

• “Find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them.” — Marissa Meyer

• “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, founder of Pinterest

• “Always deliver more than expected.” — Larry Page, co-founder Google

• “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, co-founder LinkedIn

• “Before dreaming about the future or making plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you – as entrepreneurs do.” — Reid Hoffman, co-founder LinkedIn

• “If you want to be an entrepreneur, it’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm – last thing at night you’ll send emails, first thing in the morning you’ll read emails, and you’’ wake up in the middle of the night. But it’s hugely rewarding as you’re fulfilling something for yourself.” —Niklas Zennstrom, founder Skype, and Kazaa

• “You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.” — Steve Case, co-founder AOL

• “Empower yourself and realize the importance of contributing to the world by living your talent. Work on what you love. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.” — Catharina Bruns, Founder WorkIsNotaJob

• An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and wants to create.” — David Karp, founder, and CEO Tumblr

• “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, founder and CEO Amazon

• “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” — Jim Rohn

• “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest in themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.” — Jeff Bezos

• “Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.” — Peter Drucker

• “Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.” — George S. Patton

• “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” — Thomas Paine

• “Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.” — H. L. Hunt

• “Everyone has their own reasons for starting their own business. But don’t choose other people’s reasons; choose your own.” — Simon Dlugowski

• “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” — Richard Branson

• “Every problem is a gift—without problems, we would not grow.” — Anthony Robbins

• “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” — Steve Jobs

• “Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” — William Durant