Entrepreneurship Quotes - Page 8

• Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

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• Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

  Michael Dell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Business

  Michel Dell's commemencement speech at the University of Texas at Austin, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 2003.

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100 percent from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement.

  Kevin Systrom

  Inspiring, Success, Jobs

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• To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

  Pierre Corneille

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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  The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Inspirational, Morning, Business

  "Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg -- Insights For Entrepreneurs" by Steve Tobak, www.cbsnews.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease.

  Ryan Allis

  Names, Ease, Remember

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• A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Entrepreneur, Community

  "Ted Cruz: 'When Was The Last Time You Saw A Hispanic Panhandler?'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 6, 2012.

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• I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Mom, Hard Times, Entrepreneur

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• The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.

  Tom Hooper

  Entrepreneur, Way, Directors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

  Marc Anthony

  Inspirational, Love You, Doing What You Love

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• I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur.

  Tory Burch

  Thinking, Entrepreneur, Littles

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• I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

  Marc Andreessen

  Motivation, Entrepreneur, Three

  "Andreessen on Charlie Rose: 'I Am Creating A Fund.'". Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. February 20, 2009.

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• You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

  Robert Collier

  Greatness, Entrepreneur, Achievement

  Robert Collier (2013). “The Secret of Power”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

  "Steve Jobs, the Journey Is the Reward". Book by Jeffrey S. Young, 1988.

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• Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Dream, Entrepreneur, Important

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• You CAN be what you want to be. Whatever that is.

  Benjamin Watson

  Destiny, Entrepreneur, Want

  Source: thesource.com

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• 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

  Dream, Entrepreneur, Made

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• Winners never quit and quitters never win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Business, Military

  Quoted in Richard Nixon, Six Crises (1962)

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  I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Dream, Believe

  Henry Ford, Rose Wilder Lane, Samuel Crowther “The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True”, Lulu.com

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• Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.38, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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