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“The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities.” – Michale Gerber
“There are lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world.” – Phil Libin
“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever” – Noah Everett
“Being an entrepreneur isn’t just a job title, and it isn’t just about starting a company. It’s a state of mind. It’s about seeing connections others can’t, seizing opportunities others won’t, and forging new direction that others haven’t.” – Tory Burch
“Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.” – Simon Sinek
“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.” – Steve Jobs
“Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.” – Barbara Corcoran
“I’d rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.” – Kevin O’Leary
“People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don’t end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not.” – Mark Manson
“While we would typically encourage young people to start saving for the future as early as possible, it’s unlikely that a budding entrepreneur will be able to do so.” – John C. Bogle
“I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.” – Larry Page
“Ignore the hype of the startups that you see in the press. Mostly, it’s a pack of lies. Half of these startups will be dead in a year. So, focus on building your business so you can be the one left standing.” – Jules Pieri
“I think entrepreneurship is combining a passion with the tenacity to problem-solve and the fearlessness to fail.” – Julia Hartz
“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” – Drew Houston
“I’m an entrepreneur. I always have been. I am curious, and I enjoy solving problems.” – John McAfee
“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product; you’ve launched too late.” – Gretta Rose van Riel
“If something is important enough, or you believe something is important enough, even if you are scared, you will keep going.” – Elon Musk
“All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.” – Reid Hoffman
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
“Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work. You had better enjoy it.” – Richard Branson
“Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.” – David Karp
“Being an entrepreneur is more than a matter of simply starting a business.” – Michael Gerber
“In America, everybody thinks they’re an entrepreneur. That’s the problem. It’s not a title that anybody should call oneself.” – Alan Sugar
“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” – Ted Turner
“Being an entrepreneur can be learned, and that is exactly what I have done. You don’t have to be born with it or have had the ‘lemonade stand.’ But, you do need to have the passion, devotion, conviction, and sheer will and drive to make it happen.” – Julia Hartz
“Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.” – Mark Zuckerberg
“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” – Drew Houston
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
“Don’t let anyone convince you that your dream, your vision to be an entrepreneur, is something that you shouldn’t do. What often happens is that people who are well meaning, who really care for us, are afraid for us and talk us out of it.” – Cathy Hughes
“A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.” – Peter Drucker
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffet
“A salary is a drug they give you to forget your dreams.” – Kevin O’Leary
“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” – Donald Trump
“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.” – Reid Hoffman
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” – Steve Jobs
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.” – James F. Byrnes
“I enjoy the hunt much more than the ‘good life’ after the victory.” – Carl Icahn
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.” – Peter Diamandis
“It doesn’t matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you’re an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.” – Guy Kawasaki
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” – Teddy Roosevelt
“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.” – Bill Gates
“Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” – Oprah Winfrey
“There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” – Napoleon Hill
“High expectations are the key to everything.” – Sam Waltonn
“You can’t be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.” – Irving Azoff
“Don’t let others convince you that the idea is good when your gut tells you it’s bad.” – Kevin Rose
“Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Entrepreneurship is not only about starting businesses but is an attitude to life.” – Matt Hancock
“Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.” – Zig Ziglar
“If you don’t have big dreams and goals, you’ll end up working for someone that does.” – Unknown
“Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.” – Sarah Blakely
“I love entrepreneurship because that’s what makes this country grow, and if I can help companies grow, I am creating jobs; I am setting foundations for future generations. It sends the message that the American Dream is alive and well.” – Mark Cuban
“You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.” – Steve Case
“Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.” – Leah Busque
“An entrepreneur is not a person who starts a company, but he is the person who actually solves a problem.” – Naveen Jain
“If you want to be an entrepreneur, it’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm – last thing at night you’ll send emails, first thing in the morning you’ll read emails, and you’’ wake up in the middle of the night. But it’s hugely rewarding as you’re fulfilling something for yourself.” – Niklas Zennstrom
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.” – Richard Branson
“Sleeping at night is not a specialty of entrepreneurs. The entrepreneur who is sleeping soundly, something bad is happening to that person; they just don’t know it’s happening yet.” – Stephen A. Schwarzman
“When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.” – Robert Kiosaki
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” – Peter Drucker
“Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.” – Mark Cuban
“To any entrepreneur: if you want to do it, do it now. If you don’t, you’re going to regret it.” – Catherine Cook
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
“If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.” – Ray Kroc
“Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic great entrepreneur.” – Mohnish Pabrai
“The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.” – Vivek Wadhwa
“Only the paranoid survive.” – Andy Grove
“Education around entrepreneurship should start early, at secondary level, and be very robust by college level.” – Stephen A. Schwarzman
“In my opinion, no one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or ‘get rich’ in business by being a conformist.” – J. Paul Getty
“Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.” – Jeff Bezos
“You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.” – Michael Dell
“In risk there is reward.” – Carl Icahn
“It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.” – Jason Cohen
“Any entrepreneur has to prepare for a lot of dark days, and they’ve got to really like what they are doing, and they have to have a reason for it to succeed.” – Phil Knight
“Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.” – Richard Branson
“Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.” – Lori Greiner
“You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity.” – Ken Field
“Every entrepreneur has to deal with hardship, but if we’re tough enough and thoughtful enough, we can find a way to make hard things make us better.” – Eric Greitens
“The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you’ll fail ten times for every success.” – Adam Horwitz
“Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. It is a high-risk, high-reward proposition.” – John C. Bogle
“The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.” – Debbi Fields
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
“Someone once described entrepreneurship to me as a series of happy accidents.” – Kevinn Systrom
“Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t so you can spend the rest of your life like most people cant.” – Anonymous
“A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.” – Henry Kravis
“A successful entrepreneur can’t be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever.” – John Roos
“Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.” – Victor Kiam
“Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading: buying and selling” – Anita Roddick
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly, who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.” – Teddy Roosevelt
“The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.” – Silvio Berlusconi
“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.” – Claude McDonald
“If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.” – Brian Tracy
“You don’t have to choose between doing good and doing well.” – Tim Cook
“But as an entrepreneur, you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you’re confident that you’ll catch a bird flying by. It’s an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go play because the bird doesn’t come by, but a few times it does.” – Reed Hastings
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
“An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.” – Roy Ash
“An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.” – Reid Hoffman
“Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.” – Peter Drucker
“When in doubt, bootstrap. Using your own personal resources is the easiest way to start a business. You don’t have to convince investors about the merits of your idea. You just have to convince yourself.” – Ryan Holmes
“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” – Howard Schultz
“Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.” – Kevin Plank
“It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.” – James Cash Penney
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” – Henry Ford
“The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.” – Geoff Mulligan