Top 100 Business Entrepreneur Quotes
#1. To become distinguished in your industry, you have to constantly manage, master and maximise your time.
Onyi Anyado
#2. 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
#3. Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.
Mark Pincus
#4. Being an entrepreneur is a mental job...
It takes patients! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet.
Dee Williams
#5. Don't let the fear of failure or failure as a whole stop you from becoming an entrepreneur. Failure doesn't define you or your business unless you allow it to.
Jeet Banerjee
#6. But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.
Kelly Cutrone
#7. Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.
David Karp
#8. The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur.
Paul Zane Pilzer
#9. Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no
idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.
Steven Pressfield
#10. The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.
John C. Maxwell
#11. Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world's community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.
Bill Drayton
#12. Life is about perspective and I have a different perspective from most. I am not trying to be in Hip Hop at 43 and looking like an old man. I always enjoyed business and my independence. I am an Entrepreneur.
Damon Dash
#13. Starting a business is risky. Half of all new businesses fail to experience a fifth anniversary. And everyone knows that you could lose all the money you've invested in your new company and then some. Those are the obvious risks of trying to be an entrepreneur.
Scott Shane
#14. Logic and reason are the naphthalene balls we use to pack them away into a sandook called 'Someday'. But when that day comes we are too old, too poor, too tired or too lazy.
Rashmi Bansal
#15. The thing I preach constantly is do your research; build your knowledge base. Don't just go into business on a whim or a prayer - and don't think 'I'm an entrepreneur so I have to take risks'. Entrepreneurs don't take risks. They take calculated risks; only the good ones.
Theo Paphitis
#16. You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party ... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#17. If you are an entrepreneur planning to start your own company, I can't think of a better place to begin than by operating your business by the Golden Rule. Make this a high priority; never make a decision that contradicts the Golden Rule.
Mary Kay Ash
#18. Don't make promises when you are motivated or happy. Don't make decisions when you are nervous or upset.
Ehab Atalla
#19. Be a smart learner. Learn from your mistakes and adjust your behavior accordingly.
Ehab Atalla
#20. What kind of impression are you leaving on people? Activate the ability for your first impression and last impression!
John Di Lemme
#21. Age did not have to prohibit or inhibit a woman's ability to make money or a living. Age did not diminish a woman's usefulness as a self-employed person or entrepreneur. Age did not limit the ways in which a woman made money through self-employment or entrepreneurship.
Robin Caldwell
#22. If you go to the workplace thinking that you are a mere employee, you can only be an employee. If you go with an Entrepreneur consciousness, you can definitely become an Entrepreneur
Rajasaraswathii
#24. Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.
Robert Herjavec
#25. I have no doubt that my M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business was one of the best investments I ever made. It helped me climb the corporate ladder and become an entrepreneur.
Vivek Wadhwa
#26. If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.
Dennis Crowley
#27. 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
#28. You need money to make money is nonsense! Entrepreneur people who started with nothing but an idea.
Timi Nadela
#29. A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.
Robert Kiyosaki
#30. If you're in business, all the content in the world will do you no good unless it leads to a sale.
Richie Norton
#31. The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business.
Robert Kiyosaki
#32. My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd take me to business meetings, and I would listen to him talk with his workers and customers. We would also talk a lot about business over dinner.
Bernard L. Schwartz
#33. We are currently not planning on conquering the world.
Sergey Brin
#34. The focus of the entrepreneur must always be on exchanging products or services for money, and anything that distracts from that like actually running a business, should be avoided where possible.
John Winterson Richards
#35. Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.
Guy Kawasaki
#37. If you don't learn to control your mind, your mind will control you.
Ehab Atalla
#38. At the end of the day, if you have a great product and service paired with the wrong pricing strategy / business model, you don't have a business.
Richie Norton
#39. Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.
Paula Nelson
#40. 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
#41. The only thing worse than starting something and failing ... is not starting something.
Seth Godin
#42. Be attached to opportunities - money-making ideas - not a particular type of business or industry.
Ehab Atalla
#43. 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
#44. You have to be adroit and also patient to make others agree to your terms.
Mohith Agadi
#45. If you're just starting out, don't focus on the cheese, focus on the cow.
Ehab Atalla
#46. The consumers suffer when the laws of the country prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities. What made some enterprises develop into "big business" was precisely their success in filling best the demand of the masses.
Ludwig Von Mises
#47. As an entrepreneur you own your business, you expand your brand, you increase your impact, you live with no excuses, and you enjoy your intentional growth daily.
Farshad Asl
#48. To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running
Richard Branson
#49. Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.
Michael LeBoeuf
#50. Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That kind of thinking might make you feel warm and fuzzy inside - but let's get back to reality.
Kevin O'Leary
#51. Any family without an entrepreneur has a limited hope.
Auliq Ice
#52. Real estate is the best investment on earth, however, when the music stops playing, which happens occasionally, don't be the one left without a chair.
Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur
#53. Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.
Alejandro Cremades
#54. The more businesses you have, the less work you do.
Ehab Atalla
#55. To leverage means to create a win-win situation.
Ehab Atalla
#57. Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.
Michael Gerber
#58. A person who doesn't have a structured way of writing their goals will experience disorder, even in the comfort zone.
Onyi Anyado
#59. I had worked for others for many years and didn't like the idea of someone else holding my future in their hands; it was time to do something on my own.- Jerri Graham, Nothin' But Granola
Holly Hurd
#61. An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.
Tim Ferriss
#62. Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity.
Paul Arden
#63. A goal is not just an object on a pitch; it is also a milestone on your journey of excellence.
Onyi Anyado
#64. Businesses are like people - some of them will click with your personality and others won't. It's all about chemistry.
Ehab Atalla
#65. My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Ted Turner
#66. An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.
Robert A. Rice Jr.
#67. Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#68. Everyone loves the idea of "disruption" in business, but no one likes it when it happens to them.
Richie Norton
#69. What is the most overrated skill for an entrepreneur? The most overrated skill is skill. Luck is more important. The entrepreneur gets credit for being this genius, when really he was just at the right place at the right time.
Ken Hendricks
#70. Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.
Tony Hsieh
#71. A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.
Jack Ma
#72. Unlearn your knowledge about what WAS working to understand what is working NOW
Roger James Hamilton
#73. Said another way, the Entrepreneurial Model has less to do with what's done in a business and more to do with how it's done. The commodity isn't what's important - the way it's delivered is. When The Entrepreneur creates the model,
Michael E. Gerber
#74. The way to be irreplaceable is to become a social innovator. Start projects that motivate you to save the world and simultaneously make you money (and create mindshare) for your company. Social innovation makes magic happen.
Richie Norton
#75. Delaying is the most dangerous thing you can do in business.
Ehab Atalla
#76. Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company's mission.
Tim Westergren
#77. People who say "it's just business" are lying. It's a deceptive and manipulative tactic used by weak minds. Anyone who has ever run or been in business knows that a business will fail if the relationships are not healthy. Business is the business of relationships. That is all.
Richie Norton
#78. Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.
Reid Hoffman
#79. Schumpter's daring and dashing entrepreneur is now a legendary figure from the distant past - if not from the mythology of capitalism - or is to be found only in the demimonde of business, founding new ice cream parlors or "deep freeze subscription clubs".
Paul A. Baran
#80. The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.
Reid Hoffman
#81. See things in the present, even if they are in the future.
Larry Ellison
#82. A true business opportunity is the on that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.
Michael E. Gerber
#83. In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.
Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution
#84. I believe in solving social ills with business skills.
Richie Norton
#85. The problem is not the problem. The problem is how you think about the problem.
Ehab Atalla
#86. Managers will work for a salary. Entrepreneurs create new businesses. Many people have capital, but instead of making money for business they build houses for rent. It's easy money to collect rental.
John Gokongwei
#87. Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.
Tony Hsieh
#88. The Obama administration believes in experts and blue-ribbon panels. They believe in creating new agencies and boards. They believe in all that, but they just don't trust the entrepreneur's ability to grow her own business and to create jobs.
Sher Valenzuela
#89. I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I'm doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points.
Michael Dunlop
#90. Don't go on tours with people who have never been there.
Clay Clark
#91. Entrepreneur, your last 20 tweets has to be about your brain, brand and business.
Onyi Anyado
#92. Your lack of confidence is the number one reason why you're not experiencing success.
Ehab Atalla
#93. Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.
Peter De Vries
#95. To have a successful career, you have to approach it as an entrepreneur, even if you are working for someone else. Your career is your own private business. You have to market yourself and your abilities and knowledge just as you would a product or service.
Earl G. Graves, Sr.
#96. The most important thing to leverage is people. Their talents and connections will take you to great heights.
Ehab Atalla
#97. Entrepreneurs are all unique. One way to build a business and turn it into a brand is to know who you are.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#98. Obviously, many people may remember me as the first winner of 'The Apprentice,' but prior to that, I was an entrepreneur. I started my first business when I was in college, and then getting my lucky break was when Donald Trump hired me on.
Bill Rancic
#99. Are you setting business goals? Try this:
Step 1: Add a "0" to your revenue goal.
Step 2: Take away a "0" from your expense goal.
Step 3: Let your mind go to work.
Thank me later.
Richie Norton
#100. When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.'
Tom Preston-Werner
