33 Quotes to Fuel the Entrepreneurial Flames

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Entrepreneurs spark with creativity, motivate us to action and inspire us to greatness. They offer us insights into the spirit behind innovation and genius. And they act as fuel to the blue-flame fire that burns deep within every true entrepreneur !
Quotes – Entrepreneurs are fascinated with them. The 33 quotes below are some of the best of the best, they come from authors, poets, inventors, scholars and entrepreneurs – all legends in their own rights.
So jot them down in your PDs or grab a red lipstick and write them in sweeping letters across your mirrors or pick your favorite and imprint it on your favourite tee.
The right words at the right time can be paramount to your success, so do whatever it takes to keep inspiration close at hand… :)

  1. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you ? Not much.” Jim Rohn, Entrepreneur, Author, Motivational Speaker
  2. “In life and business, there are two cardinal sins: The first is to act without thought, and the second is to not act at all.” – Carl Icahn, Investor and Entrepreneur
  3. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet
  4. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” – Richard Branson, Entrepreneur
  5. “Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun.” – Christina Rossetti, Author
  6. “Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” Williams Jenning Bryan, Politician and three-time Presidential candidate
  7. “Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.” – Donald Trump, Business Mogul
  8. “High expectations are the key to everything.” – Sam Walton, Entrepreneur
  9. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon, Entrepreneur
  10. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” William Butler Yeats, Poet
  11. “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” - Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect and Entrepreneur
  12. “Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”– Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor and Entrepreneur
  13. “If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.” – Ray Kroc, Entrepreneur
  14. “The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”Benjamin Disraeli, Author, Politician and Scholar
  15. “How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”– Coco Chanel, Entrepreneur
  16. “A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.” - David Brinkley, Newscaster
  17. “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” – G. K. Chesterton, Author
  18. “Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.” – Lloyd Jones
  19. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”­ – Michael Jordan, Basketball Legend and Entrepreneur
  20. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor and Entrepreneur
  21. “Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.” - William M. Winans, Clergyman
  22. “Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.” William Menninger, Entrepreneur
  23. “My will shall shape the future.  Whether I fail or succeed shall be no one’s doing but my own.  I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice. My responsibility.  Win or lose; only I hold the key to my destiny.” - Elaine Maxwell, Author
  24. “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32ndAmerican President
  25. “You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” - Henry Ford, Entrepreneur
  26. “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.” - Pearl S. Buck, Author
  27. “It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”– Havelock Ellis, Physician and Author
  28. “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.” - Goethe
  29. “With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.” - KeshavanNair, Author – Gandhi Biographer
  30. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” - Anatole France, Poet
  31. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” - T. S. Eliot, Author
  32. “Some people have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.” Willis R. Whitney, American Chemist
  33. “For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.” - Mary Kay Ash, Entrepreneur

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