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35 Inspiring Quotes for Entrepreneurs

March 22, 20213 min read

  1. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain

  2. It’s what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public. – Tony Robbins

  3. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn

  4. The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude to the problem. – Captain Jack Sparrow 


    The distance between your dream and reality is called action.


  5. The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well. – John D. Rockefeller Jr.

  6. Nothing will work unless you do. – Maya Angelou

  7. A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill

  8. If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill


    Ignoring online marketing is like opening a business but not telling anyone.


  9. I fear not the man who has practices 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. – Bruce Lee

  10. If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time. - Unknown

  11. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Rohn

  12. Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. – Guy Kawasaki


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


  13. If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed. – Deepak Chopra

  14. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. – Oscar Wilde

  15. You don’t build the business, you build people, then people build the business. – Zig Ziglar

  16. Simply put: we don’t build services to make more money. We make more money to build better services. – Mark Zuckerberg


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


  17. Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first. – Simon Sinek

  18. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is a success. – Henry Ford

  19. Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. – Stephen R. Covey

  20. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. – Bruce Lee


    If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan but never the goal.


  21. Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor. – Ryan Lilly

  22. Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston S. Churchill

  23. Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember -- the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you. – Zig Ziglar

  24. Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. – Francis of Assisi


    It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you are not.


  25. The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  26. I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. – Muhammad Ali

  27. Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. – Albert Einstein

  28. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill

  29. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. – Zig Ziglar


    Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.


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