Entrepreneur Quotes & Sayings

Success brings a measure of credibility.

The fastest way to turn credibility into authority is to deliver results.

The best way to deliver results is to help others succeed.

You can help others succeed by being helpful.

Always look for ways to be helpful. Helpful people are always in demand. — Richie Norton

Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create. — David Karp

Jack of all trades or master of one? If you're a master of one, you'll soon be a master of none. Times are a changin. Be a jack of all trades. Or better, master of many! — Richie Norton

If only 1 out of 10 businesses succeeds, start 10 businesses. Just sayin. — Richie Norton

Free basic internet access should be like dialing 911 in the US or 100 in India. — Mark Zuckerberg

Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated. We're free agents, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs
each with our own unique brand. — Keith Ferrazzi

We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use. — Anita Roddick

The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories ... They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's. — George Gilder

The key to unlock your entrepreneurial spirit is your imagination. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

It's a great story for us whenever an entrepreneur makes a crazy amount of money and we get to tell the world about it. For the entrepreneur? Not so much. Hitherto unknown relatives, entrepreneurs seeking angel investments, money managers and supposed baby-mamas all come out of the woodwork with dollar signs in their eyes. — Sarah Lacy

I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up. — Aaron Patzer

I don't compete, I dominate. I don't participate, I partner. I AM AN ENTREPRENEUR. — Farshad Asl

If you have felt any ounce of fear, insecurity, and uncertainty during your work day, then you might be an entrepreneur. — Timothy Freriks

I'm a big believer in being an entrepreneur. It's easy for me to say because I work for myself and I am someone who likes that process. You have control over your destiny. — Robert Greene

Entrepreneurs don't just like to win, they live to win. Winning is not just their habit but also their lifestyle. — Farshad Asl

Don't look back and ask, Why? Look ahead and ask, Why not? — Neil Patel

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor. — Henry George

Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed. — Michelangelo

There are degrees of discomfort, and everyone has a different breaking point. But if you want to be an entrepreneur, there is no choice. — Ryan Blair

Bakers bake bread, accountants manage accounts and entrepreneurs turn ideas into reality. — Richard Branson

Social Media Strategy isn't rocket science...but it might as well be if you don't know what you're doing. — Sherree Mongrain

What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy who sells a hot dog on the street is as much an entrepreneur as anyone else. Getting his $50 loan to start could be as difficult as finding $50 million for someone else. All people are entrepreneurs. — Muhammad Yunus

If you want to be a real entrepreneur you have to be the cause, you have to be the creator of someone else's new realty. Which eliminates time, space, motion, and friction. — Ashton Kutcher

Being an entrepreneur is the greatest investment — Sunday Adelaja

Is it more fascinating, perplexing, unbelievable that women are entrepreneurs? — Reese Witherspoon

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made. — Daymond John

You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients. — Robert Herjavec

I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine. — Felix Dennis

In fact, I've come to think of making stone soup as the only way an entrepreneur can succeed. — Peter H. Diamandis

You will find that every successful entrepreneur has suffered many setbacks. These entrepreneurs just forget to mention these when they are doing interviews with the 'Wall Street Journal' or Bloomberg TV. — Vivek Wadhwa

You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur, and you create a company to solve a real problem. And by real problem, I mean a problem that is going to exist down the line. — Aaron Patzer

As every entrepreneur and investor sifts through year-end data to predict the next trend or opportunity for financial success, there is a much easier way to accurately predict the future: hang out with those who are creating it. — Jay Samit

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Hire people who intimidate you. — Machel Montano

Find something you love and do it better than everyone else. — Gurbaksh Chahal

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling. — Jonas Salk

Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company. — Max Levchin

I've always been an entrepreneur, but it's never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better. — Terry McAuliffe

Don't ever let anyone tell you that something is too competitive. Once you subtract the people who don't work very hard, or the people who aren't as good as you, your competition shrinks dramatically. — Maggie Mason

I often think of a quote from entrepreneur Jim Rohn: 'You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.' Surround yourself with people who are doing interesting things, who are thinking interesting thoughts, who challenge you to be better, and who come from a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. That, combined with appropriate moments of 'me' time, provides the perfect breeding ground for great ideas. And whatever you do, don't get hung up on what competitors are doing. Be aware of what's going on in the industry, but don't let it dictate your own creative process. — Alexis Ohanian

Money isn't what motivates entrepreneurs; it is acknowledgement-a craving for your ideas to be acknowledged. — Reuben Singh

You can't judge a man by the way he reacts when things go right, but by the way he reacts when things go wrong. — Richie Norton

You can't stay in a Blackberry mindset and become an Apple! — John Di Lemme

To become a distinguished entrepreneur, you need to have an undeniable, unquestionable and unmovable passion for your vision. — Onyi Anyado

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. — Richard Branson

(Note curtailment. Not conclusion.) 7. Dementing boredom. (I found small children brutally dull. I did, even at the outset, admit this to myself.) 8. Worthless social life. (I had never had a decent conversation with a friend's five-year-old in the room.) 9. Social demotion. (I was a respected entrepreneur. Once I had a toddler in tow, every man I knew - every woman, too, which is depressing - would — Lionel Shriver

It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead. — Gary Hamel

An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument. — Robert A. Rice Jr.

I never knew anything other than wanting to be an entrepreneur. I tried my first business when I was 6 years old, and I started another business when I was 8. I don't think I knew anything besides that. — Daymond John

To the furniture worker's child in North Carolina who wants to become a doctor or a scientist, an engineer or an entrepreneur, a diplomat or even a president
that's the future we hope for. That's the vision we share. That's where we need to go
forward — Barack Obama

If you don't take risks you won't achieve anything. — Richard Branson

Where others saw gloom, I saw light or lit a candle. — G.R. Gopinath

The problem is not the problem. The problem is how you think about the problem. — Ehab Atalla

There's no "get rich quick." There's no "overnight success."

However, this doesn't mean that when you decide to start a business that you're just starting. You could start making new money tomorrow.

I was fishing with my son and taught him that you can't catch a fish unless your line is in the water. A truth my dad once taught me.
You may have spent years learning a skill or creating a product or service that you just simply haven't thought to monetize. Like leaving a fishing pole on the ground along side the river, but not having your line in the water yet.

All you need to create a new stream of income is to make something consumable and offer it at a price that someone will pay.

If you're not making offers, you're not making money.

Get your line in the water! — Richie Norton

Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party. — Henry A. Kissinger

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard. — Caterina Fake

My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. — Hill Harper

If you have time to write a business plan, you have time to prove the model. Just sayin. — Richie Norton

Since I was born and raised in Brazil, the steps to becoming an entrepreneur in the United States have not always been easy. — Mike Krieger

In the countries of Europe, one after another, the gentleman has been ousted by politicians and entrepreneurs, as materialism has given rewards to the sort of cunning incompatible with any kind of idealism. — Richard M. Weaver

Entrepreneurs are different beasts. Beasts who don't give a damn, who kick ass when required, who stand up to a challenge, and who rise time and again with utter disregard to fear or failure. These are the beasts who run the world. — Vishwas Mudagal

If you aren't practicing and playing to be first, then maybe you shouldn't be an entrepreneur. — Robert Kiyosaki

I think the word 'social entrepreneur' is a really good description of what I am. What that means me to is that you have the entrepreneurial gift and spirit to create something out of nothing. — Blake Mycoskie

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff. — Nancy Lublin

We are all creative, from the mother adding an extra pinch of garlic to her meal, to the entrepreneur launching a brand new product, to the business consultant who creates a more effective way for corporate departments to communicate. The call requires creativity. — Shannon Tanner

Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur. — Maelle Gavet

Smile and Slay.
You have to slay it in life or life will slay you. — Janna Cachola

To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running — Richard Branson

Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. — Gene Simmons

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs. — Peter Drucker

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival. — Richard Branson

You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it. — John Lennon

We get to design what we want to see in the world rather than doing what other people think should be done. — Jack Dorsey

Sing your song; don't let the bastards get you down. — Garrison Keillor

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

To be an entrepreneur, it just takes a lot of persistence, dedication, and drive. No matter what happens, you have to be wiling to get back up and try again. — Jeet Banerjee

The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society. — William Greider

A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation — Brian Chesky

Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done. — Robert Kiyosaki

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity. — Earl Nightingale

A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Most entrepreneurs are not doing it for financial motives in the first place. They're just people who love creating. — Richard Branson

Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial. — Ciputra

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it. — Richard Branson

As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business. — Daymond John

Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error. — Gordon Moore

The skill sets it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, a successful marketer, or a relevant celebrity is a different skill set than you needed ten years ago, even though that was the skill set that mattered for decades. — Gary Vaynerchuk

If you don't have jobs, it's hard to have other things like health and education. — Michael Dell

Entrepreneur, you're either raising the bar of excellence or your exhaling at the bar which is expensive. — Onyi Anyado

Everyone loves a flawed hero. I don't want perfect people. I want people who have a story, have been through some shit, dance to their own beat and still make i work, not the fake-arsed posh fuck-wits who look down on us slightly geeky weird-but-cool entrepreneurs. — Dan Meredith

Real entrepreneurs do what they say they're going to do, wannabes ask about it and have tons and tons of coffee meetings. — Brian Wong

The entrepreneur explained that she was having a hard time finding people who were willing to work as hard as she was. "I feel I have to do everything myself. I can't count on anyone to take on some of the things that need to be done," said the entrepreneur. "What you have to do," said the One Minute Manager, "is learn to delegate. — Kenneth H. Blanchard

A title from the1966 movie
"The Russians Are Coming,
The Russians Are Coming,"
gives a new meaning to
a phrase: "wait a minute,
we've seen this movie before — Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur

The most important thing to leverage is people. Their talents and connections will take you to great heights. — Ehab Atalla

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system. — Aaron Patzer

I am proud to offer my endorsement of Donald J. Trump for President of the United States. He is a successful executive and entrepreneur, a wonderful father, and a man who I believe can lead our country to greatness again. — Jerry Falwell Jr.

I was into real estate. I was always an entrepreneur. — Bill Rancic

I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me. — Ben Casnocha

My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I. — Steven Sinofsky

Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society. — Les Wexner