Entrepreneurship Quotes

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.

The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself.

People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe

When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.

You have to work on the business first before it works for you.

Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.

Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.

If there is one trait that your brand must speak of, it is trust.

Some people are born into families that encourage education; others are against it. Some are born into flourishing economies encouraging of entrepreneurship; others are born into war and destitution. I want you to be successful, and I want you to earn it. But realize that not all success is due to hard work, and not all poverty is due to laziness. Keep this in mind when judging people, including yourself.

This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

If you are going to be in business, you must learn about money: how it works, how it flows, and how to put it to work for you.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.

Life is struggle.” I believe that within that quote lies the most important lesson in entrepreneurship: Embrace the struggle.

Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.

With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.

A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.

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

Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness.

Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you.

A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her.

Men love women who are courageous for it means they can go all the way with him in his pursuit of his good dreams and intentions.

Simplicity is complex. It's never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.

Don't die without fulfilling your purpose.

Entrepreneurship is "risky" mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.

the most important lesson in entrepreneurship: Embrace the struggle.

The ideal country in a flat world is the one with no natural resources, because countries with no natural resources tend to dig inside themselves. They try to tap the energy, entrepreneurship, creativity, and intelligence of their own people-men and women-rather than drill an oil well.

I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

It is an acceptance of being uncomfortable that drives change.

Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

God is the source of my supply. His riches flow to me freely, copiously, and abundantly. All my financial and other needs are met at every moment of time and point of space; there is always a divine surplus.

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.

Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work.

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.

Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning.

God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon.

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

Always make your future bigger than your past.

Harvard Business School professor Howard Stevenson famously defined “entrepreneurship” as “the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.” I give a “hell yes” to that definition—you should take that spirit with you to whatever job you’re doing or whatever project you’re undertaking.

Entrepreneurship is a commitment if you can’t commit you can’t stay

If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

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

The idea of being wrong shouldn’t scare you from trying something new. We fail and we learn.

If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff.

An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud.

You don't feel like your best self when you fall apart, but you have to fall apart to become your best self.

Dreams remain dreams until we decide to act upon them.

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

Your words are powerful so what you say goes a long way to either establish or destroy you; this is why you should say things that God has said concerning you, not things that situations or circumstances say.

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

We forget many times, but changes are not threatening as they are the only way to move forward.

It’s very possible that your inexperienced intern knows more than you think, even if you have been part of the industry for over thirty years.

It’s wonderful to dream big but you still have to be realistic.

You never know where your next big idea will come from.

An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries. She is competent, alert and can reason out stuffs easily.

Don't call yourself discouraged anymore;it's no longer your name.

Sometimes they are just undifferentiated hobbies just like what many others have but we forget to see that in our entrepreneurial rush of excitement.

You have to always be vigilant and make sure you’re ready to get on the bandwagon as a need for any new change arises.

When we stick to our views and aren’t even willing to consider what others have to say, we lose an opportunity to grow and become better.

Rational flâneur (or just flâneur): Someone who, unlike a tourist, makes a decision opportunistically at every step to revise his schedule (or his destination) so he can imbibe things based on new information obtained. In research and entrepreneurship, being a flâneur is called “looking for optionality.

One’s needs and others’ understanding of one’s needs - these two are very different.

Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore.

One of the greatest joys of leading a business is providing jobs to other people.

When it comes to riding a trend for business growth, there are three important steps that we should always remember: data analysis, trend identification, and fast and effective decision making.

Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.

You can overcome your circumstances or you can let your circumstances overcome you.

It all starts with a tiny, stupid idea, then one thing leads to another, and suddenly, you find something amazing: yourself.

I honor you for every time this year you: got back up vibrated higher shined your light and loved and elevated beyond —the call of duty.

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.

To crush fear doesn't mean you eliminate it; crushing fear means you literally crush it down into smaller, more manageable parts and tackle one piece at a time.

Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society - and especially in the economy - as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. That is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur. It was intended as a manifesto and as a declaration of dissent: the entrepreneur upsets and disorganizes. As Joseph Schumpeter formulated it, his task is "creative destruction.

A true business opportunity is the on that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

Business failures are valuable. When you experience failure as an entrepreneur, make a conscious effort to try to understand everything about how you failed and how the business failed. It'll help you succeed.

You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

It's tough being an entrepreneur. You gotta be someone that's tough and knows how to bounce back.

Don't just float through life; don't just agree to anything and everything, have a course you are known for at all times.

Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic.

It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who got us off the ground, not the Federal Aviation Administration. It was Henry Ford who ended the isolation of millions of Americans by making the automobile affordable, not Ralph Nader. Those who have helped the poor the most have not been those who have gone around loudly expressing 'compassion' for the poor, but those who found ways to make industry more productive and distribution more efficient, so that the poor of today can afford things that the affluent of yesterday could only dream about.

The basic and most fundamental element to business is creating value - creating value for others and making their lives better in some way. If you can do that, put a price on it, communicate it clearly and get it to buyers….. you’re in business.

You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with you.

If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far go together", African Proverb

It's just as great to be an employee as it is to be an entrepreneur. Great employees add immense value to businesses and therefore to markets and to economies. Being an employee is important.

Dominate in your domain; You can do it.

A confident woman knows her worth and so doesn’t fret when her man is highly placed or is often found amidst other women in the course of his business or assignment.

Patience is a virtue not a vice.

Weigh whatever you are about to say; what will it do to your hearer - encouragement, edification, disappointment or fear? What will it do to your life - glorify, edify, beautify or weigh you down? Speak well and things will go well.

An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for a lack of an audience, close after a week. Similarly, an idea will not move from the fringes to the mainstream simply because it is good; it must be skillfully marketed before it will actually shift people's perceptions and behavior.

It’s not about getting out of your comfort zone to reach your goal. It's about widening your comfort zone so far that your goal fits comfortably inside. Once you do that, hitting your goals will be like hitting 3s for Steph Curry.

One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the saying goes, not by giving poor people a fish and feeding them for a day, but by teaching them to fish, in hopes of feeding them for a lifetime. I have come to know several social entrepreneurs in recent years, and most combine a business school brain with a social worker's heart. The triple convergence and the flattening of the world have been a godsend for them. Those who get it and are adapting to it have begun launching some very innovative projects.

It’s better to have one huge filing with lots of detail, data, and use cases than a dozen failed filings of five to ten pages each. Minimum filing requirements are not minimum requirements to secure a patent. Who does your patent keep out, and how? Your goal in creating IP is for it to be valuable, to be connected to the company, to be linked to your products or service, and to keep out competitors.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way. In an exact sense, the only thing we actually can study in our life is that on which we are working in each moment. We cannot even study Buddha’s words.” - “So we should be concentrated with our full mind and body on what we do; and we should be faithful, subjectively and objectively, to ourselves, and especially to our feelings. Even when you do not feel so well, it is better to express how you feel without any particular attachment or intention. So you may say, “Oh, I am sorry, I do not feel well.

Social issues impact every business. Whether we're talking about womens health or education or economic equity or climate change or renewable energy... All of these things impact businesses and their ability to profit. And they all present business opportunities also. So there's a lot to consider at the intersection of business and social work. And you can't really care about business without also caring about people's well-being, so every entrepreneur should be a social entrepreneur trying to help other people live better lives in some way.

IP is an intangible asset—an idea converted into transferable personal property rights through patents, trademarks, copyrights, service marks, and trade secrets. IP covers every famous animated character you’ve ever heard of, the logos on your clothing. IP covers products and services you use every day—from flashlights to mobile phones, packaging to cars, food and beverage products, to smart thermostats. IP is not only for big businesses. Most start-ups and event microbusinesses have IP of some kind. 

Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing—marketing for power. It is recognizable by its need to purge, by the strategies it uses to purge, and by its terror of truly democratic agendas. It is recognizable by its determination to convert all public services to private entrepreneurship, all nonprofit organizations to profit-making ones—so that the narrow but protective chasm between governance and business disappears. It changes citizens into taxpayers—so individuals become angry at even the notion of the public good. It changes neighbors into consumers—so the measure of our value as humans is not our humanity or our compassion or our generosity but what we own. It changes parenting into panicking—so that we vote against the interests of our own children; against their health care, their education, their safety from weapons. And in effecting these changes it produces the perfect capitalist, one who is willing to kill a human being for a product (a pair of sneakers, a jacket, a car) or kill generations for control of products (oil, drugs, fruit, gold).

Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be called “moderate Republicans.” The “political revolution” that Bernie Sanders called for, rightly, would not have greatly surprised Dwight Eisenhower. The fate of the minimum wage illustrates what has been happening. Through the periods of high and egalitarian growth in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the minimum wage—which sets a floor for other wages—tracked productivity. That ended with the onset of neoliberal doctrine. Since then, the minimum wage has stagnated (in real value). Had it continued as before, it would probably be close to $20 per hour. Today, it is considered a political revolution to raise it to $15.