The entrepreneurial journey can be one filled with thorns and thistles. It takes guts, perseverance and dogged skills to survive against all odds. You have to be tenacious and solid to stay on track. But it is worth it. Think Richard Branson, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Steve Jobs and entrepreneurship comes to mind. To be like these people you need some fuel and inspirational words of wisdom to get to your destination.
1. “See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” — Larry Ellison
2. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi
3. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”- Bill Gates
4. “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.” – Jeff Bezos
5. “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” Tony Robbins
6. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
7. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
8. “As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” – Donald Trump
9. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.” — Jeff Bezos
10. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” — Tony Hsieh
11. “Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.” — Mark Cuban
12. “Fail often so you can succeed sooner.” — Tom Kelley
13. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” — Guy Kawasaki
14. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” —Biz Stone
15. “Turn a perceived risk into an asset.” —Aaron Patzer
16. “Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.” – Thomas Edison
17. “Success is not what you have, but who you are.”- Bo Bennet
18. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” —Howard Schultz
19. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
20. “Data beats emotions.” —Sean Rad
21. “Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.” – Thomas Edison
22. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill
23. “If you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.”– Mark Zuckerberg
24. “I don’t have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.”– Matt Mullenweg
25. “Choose something unique.”– Angelo Sotiro
26. “The earlier you start, the more time you have to mess up.”– Emil Motycka
27. “Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.”– Sean Parker
28. “Great products sell themselves.” – Kevin Systrom
29. “Turn a perceived risk into an asset.” —Aaron Patzer
30. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t — you’re right.”– Henry Ford
31. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.” – Richard Branson
32. “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”– Steve Case
33. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”– Walt Disney
34. “High expectations are the key to everything.”– Sam Walton
35. “Everything started as nothing.”– Ben Weissentein
36. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” – Jack Dorsey
37. “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.” – Bill Gates
38. “I don’t think an economic slump will hurt good ideas.” —Rob Kalin
39. “If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.” – Claude McDonald
40. “I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.”– Jack Welch
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