
Top 76 Entrepreneur Life Quotes
#2. To travel is to live. Breathe some life into your life and go outside!
Richie Norton
#3. Great dream or idea comes up when you are thinking of something other than yourself.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#4. Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
Tom Peters
#6. I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist, but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.
Scott Adams
#7. If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.
Richard Branson
#10. What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.
Jason Calacanis
#11. What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story.
Richie Norton
#12. Being an entrepreneur and starting new companies require a lot of sacrifice. Sacrifice that you have to make. Because in order to be really successful, your company becomes your life. And then you have to really dedicate your time and energy fully to this endeavor that you start.
Anousheh Ansari
#13. I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.
Naveen Jain
#14. I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
Ram Shriram
#15. We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.
Mary Parker Follett
#16. When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke.
Mark Warner
#17. 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
#18. You can't be an entrepreneur for other people. You can't start a company for other people. You have to love it more than you ever thought of loving something that wasn't a human being. The demands will kick you down and rob your life - but yet, it is so rewarding.
Blake Lively
#19. Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.
Richie Norton
#21. You can't stay in a Blackberry mindset and become an Apple!
John Di Lemme
#23. The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.
Bill Drayton
#25. As you step out of college, you will be spending the rest of your life in a world of accelerated disruption.
Fadi Ghandour
#26. There is no failure, unless we fail to begin or we fail to continue.
Christopher Babson
#28. As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.
Ryan Holmes
#29. If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes.
Ludwig Von Mises
#31. My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
Rachel Zoe
#32. Build pockets of stillness into your life.
Maria Popova
#33. Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.
B. J. Fogg
#34. People will watch you build a house, but won't pass you a brick. And once your home is built, they want to come inside for dinner.
Andrea L'Artiste
#35. I value an entrepreneur I can get behind and trust, because I know they are attempting to move forward in life.
Daymond John
#36. How much value do you want to get out of life? You get out what you put in.
Approach your life with intent, courage, faith and hard work, and you'll reap the beautiful value those sacrifices provide. That's the way our strange world works.
Richie Norton
#37. I think one thing that has helped me to be an entrepreneur is being an immigrant and coming to the United States. I had to basically build a new life for myself, and adjust very quickly to a new environment, new culture, learn a new language.
Anousheh Ansari
#38. Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were mean to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't pain, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.
Steven Pressfield
#39. Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.
Sam Yagan
#40. I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so. Taking risks gives me energy. I can't help it, it's my personality. I'd like to think it's not really a compulsion toward high risks, but the spirit of an entrepreneur.
Jay Chiat
#41. Wealth isn't about money. It's about options...and you always have options. Choose wisely. Live wealthy.
Richie Norton
#42. When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe?
Richie Norton
#43. I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.
Naveen Jain
#45. Another year older, but am I wiser? Wisdom comes from learning and changing for the better. Sometimes we just go through life living the same day over and over and never gaining true wisdom. Let that never be me.
Richie Norton
#46. I roll out of bed in the morning, whenever I want, and I work right away because, to me, that's the life. That's freedom. The whole point for me is that I love the freedom of being an entrepreneur that I do what I want to do when I want to do it.
Lori Greiner
#47. An entrepreneur is born, when a person has more reasons to drive his dreams against his excuses.
Sukant Ratnakar
#48. 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
#49. If you are working with no vision to be own your own boss, you are no different from people who are unemployed
Sunday Adelaja
#50. What kind of impression are you leaving on people? Activate the ability for your first impression and last impression!
John Di Lemme
#51. As an entrepreneur, you've got to protect against the company going bust. And as an adventurer, you've got to protect against losing your life. It's even more important as an adventurer to get it right.
Richard Branson
#52. 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
#53. Stop nourishing other people's ideas and beliefs in your life. Take up your own idea and endeavor to accomplish it.
Abhijit Naskar
#54. I look up to the modern entrepreneurs, because the one's from the old age, many are racist, even if no one knows about that part of their lives, but I am not so ignorant that I will not learn from their work to better my life.
James Jean-Pierre
#56. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down ... I was a very public failure.
Steve Jobs
#57. I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.
Yuri Milner
#58. You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.
Al Michaels
#59. Entrepreneurs see what others can't, do what others won't, and accomplish what others dream.
Ryan Lilly
#60. True religion must raise to work at the bar and the bench, on the couch and on the streets, in the cottage of the poor man and in the penthouse of the entrepreneur, with the fisherman that is catching fish and with the students that are studying.
Abhijit Naskar
#61. Live life like a Legend, and society will start acknowledging you as a great Entrepreneur !
Ujjwal Chugh
#62. The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience.
Mitch Kapor
#64. There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking a basketball. Being a famous rock star. Or walking on Mars. But one thing I have been, and will always be, is an entrepreneur.
Michael Arrington
#65. To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.
Tony Hsieh
#66. Life isn't about having, it's about experiencing.
Richie Norton
#67. I choose my life to this free. I choose my life to be this way
Thomas Paine
#68. 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
#69. Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity.
Paul Arden
#71. Branding is not just a product, it's also a way of life, an idea, branding is actually leadership.
Onyi Anyado
#72. Smile and Slay.
You have to slay it in life or life will slay you.
Janna Cachola
#74. I have become a trailblazer for my destiny; the entrepreneur of my fate.
Sandra Vischer
#75. There are those dreamers who make excuses for why they aren't passionate about or creating anything to match their desires and then there's those dreamers who stay up late just to finish a goal that will get them up the next set of stairs. We all have dreams but not everyone makes it a reality.
Nikki Rowe
#76. It's simpler to live in a mindset of moving forward, than in a mindset of procrastination!
John Di Lemme
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