Top 200 Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

52. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

— Winston Churchill

53. “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

— Winston Churchill

54. “If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.”

— Jack Welch

55. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

— Henry Ford

56. “When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure,’ not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.’”

— Tom Preston-Werner

57. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

58. “I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.”

— Seth Godin

59. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.”

— Vince Lombardi

60. “You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.”

— Robert Collier

61. “Opportunists seek for a chance. Entrepreneurs make new chances.”

— Toba Beta

62. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

— Woody Allen

63. “Real artists ship.”

— Steve Jobs

64. “An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.”

— Roy Ash

65. “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

— Anthony Volodkin

66. “Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.”

— Chuck Close

67. “Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week, to avoid working 40 hours a week.”

— Lori Greiner

68. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”

— Elon Musk

69. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

— Chinese proverb

70. “The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.”

— Casey Neistat

71. “The real risk is doing nothing.”

— Denis Waitley

72. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”

— Babe Ruth

73. “Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.”

— Kevin Systrom

74. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

— Napoleon Hill

75. “Big results require big ambitions.”

— Heraclitus

76. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

— Guy Kawasaki

77. “Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.”

— Les Brown

78. “Entrepreneurs don’t finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

79. “This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock?”

— Zig Ziglar

80. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

— Biz Stone

81. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”

— Howard Schultz

82. “Don’t be afraid of new arenas.”

— Elon Musk

83. “It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.”

— Mark Cuban

84. “I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.”

— Elon Musk

85. “How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”

— Seth Godin

86. “Everyone can tell you the risk. An entrepreneur can see the reward.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

87. “I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying.”

— Jay-Z

88. “Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps.”

— Brian Halligan

89. “To any entrepreneur: if you want to do it, do it now. If you don’t, you’re going to regret it.”

— Catherine Cook

90. “The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.”

— Tony Robbins

91. “An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.”

— Tim Ferriss

92. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

— Steve Jobs

93. “If you take an idea and just hold it in your head, you unconsciously start to do things that advance you toward that goal.”

— Biz Stone

94. “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

95. “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

— Elon Musk

96. “Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

97. “The best vision is insight.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

98. “I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.”

— Elon Musk

99. “Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.”

— Elon Musk

100. “The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.”

— Jean-Baptiste Say