Top 200 Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “It’s not the big that eats the small – it’s the fast that eats the slow.”

— Jason Jennings

102. “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.”

— Steve Jobs

103. “Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.”

— Jim Rohn

104. “The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth’s most customer-centric company.”

— Jeff Bezos

105. “We believe people with passion can change the world for the better. That’s what we believe. And we believe that those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do.”

— Steve Jobs

106. “There has never been a better time in the history of time than right now to start a business.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

107. “I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”

— Madam C. J. Walker

108. “I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”

— Elon Musk

109. “Innovation is the only way to win.”

— Steve Jobs

110. “Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

111. “Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.”

— Steve Jobs

112. “Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility.”

— Grant Cardone

113. “Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

— Steve Jobs

114. “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”

— Steve Jobs

115. “For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.”

— Elon Musk

116. “I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

— Steve Jobs

117. “Cut your excuses in half and double your actions around your goals.”

— Robin S. Sharma

118. “To be successful, you must be willing to do the things today others won’t do in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have.”

— Les Brown

119. “If people like you they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you they’ll do business with you.”

— Zig Ziglar

120. “You can have results or excuses. Not both.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

121. “Plan your work and work your plan.”

— Napoleon Hill

122. “The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”

— Napoleon Hill

123. “Live with passion!”

— Tony Robbins

124. “Stop whining, start hustling.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

125. “You can do it if you believe you can.”

— Napoleon Hill

126. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

— Steve Jobs

127. “Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.”

— Arianna Huffington

128. “Never lower your target ; increase your actions.”

— Grant Cardone

129. “Start small, think big. Don’t worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.”

— Steve Jobs

130. “You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

131. “There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.”

— Zig Ziglar

132. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

133. “People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.”

— Warren Buffett

134. “It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.”

— Tim Ferriss

135. “You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love – who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”

— Oprah Winfrey

136. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

— Thomas A. Edison

137. “Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.”

— Steve Jobs

138. “Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”

— Tim Ferriss

139. “Listen to me. We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?”

— Steve Jobs

140. “People are rewarded in public for what they practice for years in private.”

— Tony Robbins

141. “You don’t build a business – you build people – and then people build the business.”

— Zig Ziglar

142. “Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. ”

— Jim Rohn

143. “There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.”

— Mark Cuban

144. “If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.”

— Bill Gates

145. “Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.”

— Brian Tracy

146. “The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader’s true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.”

— Simon Sinek

147. “Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.”

— John C. Maxwell

148. “The only differentiator in the game is your passion and your hustle.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

149. “The key to SUCCESS is to START before you’re ready.”

— Marie Forleo

150. “A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better.”

— Richard Branson