I recently read a quote that inspired me and thought, "Why not share it with others?" I've also collected a list of quotes from entrepreneurs and other quotes that are relevant to entrepreneurship. Skip and I included our own at the bottom of the post. I hope one of these quotes inspires you as well.
1. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work - Thomas Edison, inventor and scientist
2. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary - Vidal Sassoon, entrepreneur
3. 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 - A student in Warren G. Tracy's class, entrepreneur (Thanks Daniel!)
4. The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning - to create a product or service to make the world a better place - Guy Kawasaki, entrepreneur, investor, author
5. Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory - Mahatma Gandhi, political and spiritual leader
6. Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners - Robert T. Kiyosaki, author, entrepreneur, investor
7. Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence - Lisa M. Amos
8. Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life - John F. Kennedy, U.S. President
9. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable - Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President
10. The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place - Jim Rohn
11. Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them - Anonymous
12. 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, real estate and entertainment mogul
13. The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities - Michael Gerber, author, entrepreneur
14. An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it - Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
15. The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer - Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's
16. I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful - Warren Buffet, investor and billionaire
17. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent - Thomas Edison, inventor and scientist
18. 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, author
19. There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose the ventures before us - William Shakespeare, author
20. Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration - Thomas Edison, inventor and scientist
Here are our quotes: Being an entrepreneur is a lot like playing poker - you can fold, limp in, or go for it - Yasmine Mustafa
If you kick it around enough, it starts to look like a ball - Skip Shuda
What's your favorite quote?
About the Author:
Yasmine Mustafa graduated from Temple University’s Fox School of Business in December of 2006. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration as an Entrepreneurship major. Besides graduating Magna Cum Laude from Temple, Yasmine participated in the Ninth and Tenth Annual Innovative Idea Competition where she received first prize in the "Undergraduate" category and second prize in the “Graduate” category the following year. In 2008, she placed first in Temple's Eleventh Annual Innovative Idea Competition - her third consecutive win. She was also given "The Entrepreneurship Award" - an award given out to one graduate per year to honor the student with the highest GPA in that major. She was Vice President of Marketing for the Entrepreneurial Student Association and a member of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE). Early 2008, Yasmine was announced a finalist in Temple’s Annual Business Plan Competition.
Yasmine has been involved with the initial phases of Stuzo.com (an online trading company) and Centsable Kids (a financial literacy program for kids). She was a strategist for one of the eleven startups that were involved in the inaugural run at DreamIT Ventures (a pre-seed investment company similar to Y-Combinator). Currently a partner at Team and a Dream, Yasmine has worked with multiple startups mainly focused on Internet Marketing and e-business strategies.
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