Entrepreneurship Mindset Quotes

Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move.

Blaming others is an act of refusing to take responsibility. When a person can’t accept the fact or the reality, they blamed another person or the situation instead of taking accountability.

If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?

A failed entrepreneur has just passion but a successful one knows how to plan to keep that passion alive.

An entrepreneur is a man who knows he can fail, but he does not accept to fail before he actually fails, and when he fails he learns from his errors and moves on.

One of the things I’ve learned about vision is people will grab it mentally or, have a crab mentality.

Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight.

Trustworthy is earned not bought.

Stop Blaming. Take responsibility for your thoughts and your actions.

Good habits and intentional daily effort to turn excuses into solutions will help you become the person and entrepreneur that you want to be.

Your career is your business. You are its CEO. Complacency breeds failure. As the CEO of your career, you must continually improve your skills, especially the art of communication.

Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure.

When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish.

Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking?

If you sincerely want to be successful in life, all you need is one person to believe in you, and that one person should be YOU. As long as you genuinely believe in yourself, you can and will be a success. Your mindset is a powerful force! What you think and how you think will be the ultimate factor of your journey’s end.

Quality is not for compromise.

Time, energy and money. These should never be compromised.

Millionaires don't play the blame game but the gain game.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

Most people set intentions wrong. The right way to set intentions is to be clear on what you want to go FROM and what you want to go TO.

Strive to be bored is a contradictory statement for most entrepreneurs. But we have to strive to be bored to make space for more if we want to grow our business.

The self-employed need business strategies that are relationship-based, not transactional, authentic to who you are, and right-sized for small business.

It is not your job to prove your value to anyone. It is your job to find the people that already value what you do.

We hire coaches for our mindsets, attend conferences to improve our skill set, work with specialists for every need in our business and wonder why we feel like we’re all over the place.

The entrepreneur’s mind-set is completely different to the employee’s mind-set. The entrepreneur finds it abhorrent to conform to organizational norms, whilst the employee finds joy and stability in all that’s tried and true. It’s not that one’s wrong and the other is right. It’s the mind-set that differentiates the two.

We are doing business in the empowerment age. It is our job to empower our customers to choose us. The moment you tell them to choose you, they will back up. The moment you tell someone to trust you, they won’t.

There is an economy in your mind

Everyone has bad habits. It is your good habits that build you.

Not everyone understand everything.

Entrepreneur, your message, mindset and mandate is connected to your brand, business and brain.

I don't talk about my vision, I show it.

When you’re self-employed, your success is proportionate to your personal development.

When we’re self-employed, much of what has been typical of business, marketing, and sales has creeped us out. We want to do business in ways that feel good to us.

The beginning of change doesn’t come from motivation and dangling carrots. It begins with being clear about what you want to get away from.

We stretch ourselves when the impact we want to make and the life we want to create is bigger than the fear and challenges.

Having a successful life and business requires that we first learn who we are, then do what we have to do in order to have what we want.

We used to build businesses with all effort and hard work. Today, we create businesses by paying attention to what the market wants and co-creating with those we serve.

Build systems for the business to come, not the business you have.

The biggest risk is not in what you build. It is in not supporting what you build.

To create success in your business, you have to protect your capacity to serve others by learning to work efficiently and effectively.

Your success is limited by your personal development- what you think you’re capable of, what you think you deserve, and the mindsets that hold you back.

Daily habits that create steady mindsets are vital to be sure the uncontrollable circumstances of business and life don’t derail you.

Entrepreneurs don’t usually fail from circumstance, they fail from what I call entrepreneurial rigidity—a fixed mindset and unwillingness to change the business model.

One of the things I've learned about vision is people will grab it mentally or, have a crab mentality.

Make your mistakes fast

You need a healthy, thriving self-employed ecosystem. An ecosystem that integrates the three main elements of self-employed success--personal development, business strategies, and daily habit.

The myth of self-employment is we go into business for ourselves thinking we’re going to gain control over our destiny without realizing we are entering completely uncontrollable circumstances.

The potential of controlling and living a successful life according to your terms depends on how you think. Your perception is your world. You can create the life you want and in fact, you can even shape the way you want it.

You could argue that all of this is simply part of the “think different” mind-set, one that is necessary for entrepreneurship and radical change. The problem is that with it often comes a strong sense of entitlement and a weak sense of responsibility for any consequence of one’s actions.

Our thoughts and our mind-sets greatly affect our perception of what life is really about

We can only share bed not our sleep. - That's why our dreams are brightly unlike.

Stop worrying about your competition; focus on increasing your value proposition.

Entrepreneur, if your going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.

We exist to serve our community. That's the most important mind-set to maintain.

An entrepreneur is not deterred by his lack of perfection, he knows no one else is

Harmony is everything, your central nervous system can bear witness to that in every area of your life...if you let your soul step to the open MIC!

Never, ever, ever, write off anything you’ve achieved as merely being lucky. You are not lucky: you are hard-working and capable. Don’t ever question it.

When you don't see what you want on the market, create it.

You don't give up when you can't give up.

Dear entrepreneurs! You have to have a greater professionalism, responsibility and a service oriented mindset to grow and thrive your business.

Those who dare to think, and act with a plan, will eventually prosper.

To be a successful leader, you need to protect the voices without authority. More often than not, they work on the ground and know what really needs to be changed.

The old-adage that business is business, don’t take it personal, doesn’t apply to the self-employed. It’s all personal!

Putting a stake in the ground that you’re self-employed is important. It’s the only term that accurately portrays your lifestyle and your business model.

We don’t let go of something until the benefits of what’s ahead are greater than what we’ve been holding on to.

Make sure you would be a customer of your own business.

Entrepreneurship, with the right mindset, can help anyone reach his goals in life.

The beauty of entrepreneurship lies in witnessing those determined spirits, who wake up every day to multiple rejections and yet still focus on 'failing' forward.

The safest way to be in business today and the way to gain as much control over your business as possible, is to have a business model of multiples where you can reach a multiple of audiences in multiple ways.

The difference between ownership and stewardship is that you can do what you want with what you own. When you become a steward, you recognize that you have just as much control as an owner, but a responsibility that’s greater than yourself.

You are always self-employed. You are always the president of your own personal services corporation, no matter where you might be working at the moment. When you see yourself as self-employed, you develop the entrepreneur mentality. The mentality of the highly independent, self-responsible, self-starting individual. Instead of waiting for things to happen, you make things happen. You see yourself as the boss of your own life. You see yourself as completely in charge of your physical health, your financial well-being, your career, your relationships, your home, your car, and every element of your existence. This is the mindset of the truly excellent person.

Youth culture is constantly evolving and Gen Z in particular is disrupting industries, says Witt. Gen Z represents an unprecedented group of innovation and entrepreneurship. This group is focused on niche interests and if brands don’t recognize this now and get on board, they are going to be left behind. It’s also important for brands to adopt a global mindset, as some of the most significant growth is taking place in countries that are either developing or underdeveloped.

Ambition can be just as much as a curse as it can be a blessing.

Ethics & Prototypes (The Sonnet) Take morality out of science and, All you've left is one big conspiracy theory. Abundance of facts doesn't make something right, If it has no regard for the supreme fact of humanity. Just because we can innovate, doesn't mean we should, Science can no more be measured by the query of could. In future we'll be able to pre-edit a newborn baby, But just because we could, doesn't mean we should. Only a true scientist will realize the truth in this, A mind that can look past the pomp into the purpose, While counterfeit tech giants try to turn the world, Into a giant lifeless robot made of bolts and nuts. So better keep radical designs hidden from public eyes. Some prototypes must never ever be commercialized.

More to Technology (The Sonnet) Some prototypes must never be commercialized, Not till we learn to look beyond monetary value. Write some fiction instead without revealing schematics, If you want the possibility to survive through. Technology is a stupidly predictable phenomenon, What one person can imagine another can rig together. All it takes is an infinite supply of persistence, Voila - fiction of today turns reality centuries later! So I say again, ask the question of "should" not "could", If you want some tech to bring light not silent regress. Because once you put the schematics out into the world, All your brilliance will fall short to undo the damage. There's more to technology than startups 'n entrepreneurship. Power without responsibility causes disparity not uplift.

The most important behavior on your part involves dedicating a disproportionate share of your own time, attention, and discretionary resources to creating new business models. Existing businesses, and the leaders in charge of them, face little difficulty in articulating their needs, building a case for their support, and attracting people. Entrepreneurial initiatives, on the other hand, are usually seen as marginal or unimportant in their early stages. Unless you personally allocate to them disproportionate attention, disproportionate resources, and disproportionate talent, they will get squeezed by the existing business to the extent that they never have a chance to take off. Your challenge is to provide counterpressure to the inertial forces that lead your people to constantly attend to the demands of today’s business. [...] By disproportionate resources, we mean budget, access to operating capacity or operating assets, and, most vitally, the very best people. Ironically, these are the very resources that are highly desired by managers of the existing business, who are apt to hotly contest any other claim on them. Like the payment of disproportionate attention, the disproportionate allocation of resources to new business models has its costs. Every dollar and every hour of operations capacity allocated disproportionately to entrepreneurial initiatives is money and time denied the existing business. Disproportionate allocation must be a deliberate process, with commitment of resources being visibly recognized as a matter of strategic choice, not a struggle between long- and short-term goals. [...] Finally, you must be prepared for your organization’s top talent to work on entrepreneurial initiatives. This can create a painful dilemma. When top talent works on an entrepreneurial initiative, the current business is weakened accordingly. However, if only mediocre talent is assigned to the difficult task of new business development, the ventures are doomed. Furthermore, allowing ventures to be run by mediocre people sends an even stronger signal to the rest of the business about your real priorities. The smart people in the firm will recognize that business development is not truly a priority for you, and they will organize their own priorities accordingly. The message: If you don’t walk the talk, only the dumb people will listen.

These days, it seems, entrepreneurs are in a great hurry. They want to grow their companies into unicorns the day after tomorrow! But entrepreneurship played to win is typically a long game. Building successful companies for the long term requires a combination of patience and perseverance to stay the course, along with the flexibility to pivot when the data calls for a pivot. It's a journey not for the faint of heart, as we've seen. My advice? Don't rush it. If you're on a sound path, success will come, as Pandora found. If it's a narrow path at the outset, so much the better, as you'll better understand what your narrowly targeted market really wants. One entrepreneur I know well says that entrepreneurship is the art of staying alive until you get lucky!

Just being on the right track isn't enough to guarantee success. You must keep moving forward and taking action, or you'll get left behind.

Good things pass by those who wait.

Create your own path then encourage others not to follow but to create their own.

I'm insanely crazy that success follows me around now. Everything I touch is successful.

Transform your mindset; transform your life.

Developing an action-to-momentum mindset is important. Even when we can’t see the finish line it is important to take incremental steps toward our goals. It is in this progress we can eventually see the results we seek.

No girl will pick six-pack abs over six cars. So, drop the dumbbells and grab a briefcase. Swap your protein shakes for paychecks and deadlifts for dollar signs. Abs might get a glance, but a garage full of luxury rides? Now that’s a head-turner. So, quit sweating at the gym and start hustling at work. After all, muscles flex, but money talks—and it’s fluent in 'Vroom Vroom' and 'Cha-Ching'!

People who have been employed all their lives abroad come home to Africa and they want to start businesses. Then the reality of entrepreneurship hits them. Most move back that quickly. Entrepreneurship is not just about making money, it is more of a course and wanting to build a vision. If you come and start business and you were never into business, you will go through the processes of entrepreneurship development; what should keep you going should be your belief in the idea that you are building. It has little to do with “I have come with money, what business can I do?” Even if you were doing business somewhere, you will still need to learn how to do business in the African environment, the behaviour and work ethics of the people, government laws, etc. It takes patience, skill development and high sense of purpose to develop.

Just like us, successful people are also given 24 hours each day. The only differences between them and unsuccessful individuals are their winner mindset and self discipline.

The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset

Successful entrepreneurs don’t have better ideas; instead they have better mindsets for taking action. Action is what sets apart an aspiring entrepreneur from others.

Entrepreneurial Leadership is where your vision, influence and creativity converge; it is where opportunities become limitless and your capabilities boundless.

Entrepreneurship is not a title, it is a mindset, a way of life; it is the future!

On the mountain, raise your hands in victory; in the valley, fold them in reflection. Both are essential to the journey.

The same talent, determination, and moxie that make the famous successful can be found in people who lead more ordinary lives.

The world you experience is a reflection of the thoughts you entertain. If you find yourself wanting more from life, it’s a sign that your thinking is ready for an upgrade. Shift your mindset, and watch your life transform.

Every level of life demands a different version of you. If you want to rise to new heights, you must be willing to challenge your old thoughts and embrace a mindset that supports your growth.

I am the outcome of my failures, and I love it.

Just planning is nothing, Execution on it is everything.

See beyond the apparent and think in perpetuity and execute in long terms.

It's not the politician who's to be feared, but the qualities of selfishness, greed and the mindset of a businessman within.

Success in entrepreneurship is very much like a game—part chess match, part poker tournament, and part schoolyard soccer competition. You’ve got to make decisive moves in a really strategic way, bluff on occasion when you want others to think that you have a better hand, and pass the ball to and from teammates to hit your goals. Sometimes, it will be a straight line to a quick score, and at other times, you will have to double back, up the ante, and formulate a new plan.