Entrepreneurship requires mental toughness and resolve. The greatest entrepreneurs thrive on problems, challenge the status quo and turn around things even in dire situations. Entrepreneurs are driven by a vision to build, create and solve problems.
The greater the obstacles, the bigger the opportunity for them to rise and shine.
Here’s a look at some of the motivational quotes for entrepreneurs to keep their spirits high:
1. “Success in business happens when you have happy customers that are willing to tell others about how great your product is. Be it a big or small business, strive to more than satisfy your customers.”
Warren Buffett
2. “Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.”
Thomas Edison
3. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
Vince Lombardi
4. “Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Confucius
5. “You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.”
Jessica Herrin
6. One of the greatest skills of leadership is being unflappable. Anytime you do anything in the world; there’s going to be criticism.
Arianna Huffington
7. “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
Pablo Picasso
8 .“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
Steve Jobs
9. “A little progress each day adds up to big results.”
Unknown
10. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
Maya Angelou
11. “Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”
Chris Dixon
12. “We are never in lack of money. We lack people with dreams who can die for those dreams.”
Jack Ma
13. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
Albert Schweitzer
14. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”
Drew Houston
15. “It begins by trying to make each day count and knowing you can never make up for a lost day. If a player appeared to be taking it easy in practice, I told him, ‘Don’t think you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren’t you doing it now?”
John Wooden
16. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.”
Michelangelo
17. “Find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them.”
Marissa Meyer
18. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
Ayn Rand
19. “High expectations are the key to everything.”
Sam Walton
20. “You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you”
Walt Disney
21. “The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”
Ingvar Kamprad
22. “You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.”
Russell Simmons
23. “Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.”
James Cash Penney
24. “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.”
Phil Knight
25. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”
Napoleon Hill
26. “The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.”
Sergey Brin
27. “It’s very easy to be different but very difficult to be better.”
Jonathan Ive
28. “Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.”
William Durant
29. “The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”
Socrates
30. “To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people.”
Charlie Munger
31. “Entrepreneurship is defying logic, building dreams and achieving the impossible.”
Apoorve Dubey
