75 quotes to motivate entrepreneurs from great people like Einstein to Michael Jordan.

1. 75 motivational quotes for
entrepreneurs
Dharmesh Suraj Bali
@dharmeshsb

2. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not
discovered the value of life.”
Charles Darwin - best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory

3. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll
never get it done.” Bruce Lee - martial arts & movie icon

4. “A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.”
Albert Einstein
one of the world’s greatest thinkers

5. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
Wayne Gretzky - greatest hockey player ever

6. “If I’d observed all the rules,
I’d never have got anywhere.”
Marilyn Monroe
successful model, actress & singer

7. “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
Francis Bacon
founder of the scientific method

8. “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent
perspiration.”
Thomas Edison
inventor of the light bulb

9. “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”
Henry Ford – Founder Ford Motor Company

10. “Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.”
John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States

11. “If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking.”
George S. Patton
US Army General & considered one of the most successful field commanders in U.S history

12. “It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed
the lessons of failure. ”
Bill Gates
Co-founder & Chairman of Microsoft

13. “To have a great idea, have a lot of them.”
Thomas Edison
4th most prolific inventor in history

14. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
Lao Tzu
father of Taoism

15. “You can’t wait for inspiration.
You have to go after it with a club.”
Jack London
first fiction writer to obtain worldwide celebrity

16. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more
honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw
co-founder London School of Economics

17. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Walt Disney
Founder of Walt Disney

18. “You can never quit.
Winners never quit, and
quitters never win.”
Ted Turner
media mogul

19. “When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten
things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.”
George Bernard Shaw
only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938)

20. “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going
beyond them into the impossible.”
Arthur C. Clarke
sci-fi writer and author of “2001 A Space Odyssey”

21. “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached,
don’t adjust the goals, adjust the steps.”
Confucius
influential Chinese teacher, philosopher & political figure

22. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something.
But I can’t accept not trying.”
Michael Jordan
greatest basketball player of all time

23. “We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle
student of Plato & teacher of Alexander the Great

24. “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won’t
work.”
Thomas Edison
General Electric co-founder

25. “If you want to succeed, strike out
on new paths rather than travel the
worn paths of accepted success.”
John D. Rockfeller
revolutionized the petroleum industry

26. “The only thing worse than starting something and
failing… is not starting something.”
Seth Godin
Squidoo founder, entrepeneur, blogger & author

27. “A lot of times, people don’t know what
they want until you show it to them.”
Steve Jobs
entrepreneur & inventor who revolutionized 6 industries

28. “There are people who accomplish things, and people who
claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less
crowded.”
Mark Twain
father of American literature

29. “A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.”
Jack Dempsey
World Heavyweight Champion (1919-1926)

30. “I’ve got a theory that if you
give 100% all the time, somehow
things will work out in the end.”
Larry Bird
12-time NBA All-Star

31. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing,
but in rising up every time we fail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century

32. “All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start
companies but because the will to create is encoded in human
DNA.”
Reid Hoffman
co-founder of LinkedIn

33. “You may delay, but time will not.”
Benjamin Franklin
one of the Founding Fathers of United States & inventor of the lightning rod

34. “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
William Shakespeare
greatest writer in the English language

35. “Take time to deliberate,
but when the time for action has arrived,
stop thinking and go in.”
Napolean Bonaparte
one of the greatest military leaders in history

36. “It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.”
Grace Hopper
one of the pioneers for the development of computer

37. “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an
idea at all.”
Oscar Wilde
one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s

38. “You don’t get another chance.
Life is no Nintendo game.”
Eminem
one of the world's best-selling music artists

39. “There’s 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.”
Philip Libin
CEO of Evernote

40. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
Napoleon Hill
Author of “Think and Grow Rich”, one of the all-time best-selling books

41. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules.
You learn by doing, and by falling over.”
Sir Richard Branson
business magnate

42. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison
holds 2,332 patents worldwide
inventor of phonograph, light bulb
& motion picture camera

43. “I’ve failed over and over
and over again in my life
and that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan
holds the NBA records for highest
career regular season scoring average

44. “Once you make a decision,
the universe conspires to
make it happen.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
champion of individualism

45. “Your time is limited,
so don’t waste it living
someone else’s life.”
Steve Jobs
co-founder of Apple

46. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
Alan Kay
one of the pioneers of the PC, Graphical User Interface, Object Oriented Programming

47. “You’ve got to jump off cliffs and
build your wings on the way down.”
Ray Bradbury
one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers

48. “Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today.
Let us begin.”
Mother Teresa
1979 Nobel Peace Prize

49. “Do, or do not. There is no try.”
Yoda - Grand Master of the Jedi Order

50. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it
into a door.”
Coco Chanel
founder of Chanel

51. “Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence –
is the key to unlocking our potential.”
Winston Churchill
one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century

52. “Lost time is never found again.”
Benjamin Franklin
inventor of the lightning rod & bifocals

53. “I hated every minute of training, but I said,
‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of
your life as a champion’.”
Muhammad Ali
sportsman of the century

54. “When you cease to dream you cease to live. .”
Malcolm Forbes
Publisher of Forbes Magazine

55. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew
the one thing I might regret is not trying.”
Jeff Bezos
Amazon founder & CEO

56. “Think small to grow big. Keep your eye on the bigger
picture, but don't slip on attention to detail.”
Sir Richard Branson
Virgin Group founder

57. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability
to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is
stupid.”
Albert Einstein
the most influential physicist of the 20th century

58. “Some people dream of success... while others wake up and
work hard at it.”
Mark Zuckerberg
Founder Facebook

59. “When everything seems to be going against
you, remember that the airplane takes off against the
wind, not with it.”
Henry Ford - one of America's foremost industrialists

60. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try
sleeping with a mosquito.”
Dalai Lama
Political & Religious leader

61. “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or
anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life.
There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not
stay there, you must go beyond them.”
Bruce Lee - revered martial artist, actor and filmmaker

62. “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create
something that will.”
Chuck Palahniuk
author of fight club

63. “If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other
people aren't willing to do.”
Michael Phelps
won the most Olympic Medals in history

64. “We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.”
Buddha
Religious leader

65. “If I had asked people what they wanted,
they would have said faster horses.”
Henry Ford
revolutionized assembly-line for the automobile industry

66. “Smile. Listen. Agree. Then do whatever the fuck you wanted
to do anyway.”
Robert Downey Jr.
Film Actor best known for Ironman

67. “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has
been.”
Wayne Gretzky
Hockey player nicknamed “The Great One”

68. “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude
from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.”
Thomas Jefferson
American Founding Father

69. “Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
John Wooden
Basketball coach who won 10 national championships in a 12 year span with UCLA

70. “Start wide, expand further, and never look back.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Famous bodybuilder & Hollywood star

71. “I'd like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support.
And to all my doubters, thank you very much because you
guys have also pushed me.”
Usain Bolt
first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic Game

72. “You want something, go get it. Period.”
Will Smith
Hollywood Star

73. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage
to lose sight of the shore.”
Andre Gide
won The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947

74. “It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”
Steve Jobs
pioneered the iPhone & iPad

75. “My first six years in the business were hopeless. There are a
lot of times when you sit and you say ‘Why am I doing this?
I’ll never make it. It’s just not going to happen. I should go out
and get a real job and try to survive.”
George Lucas
Creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies

76. “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most
people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like
most people can’t.”
Warren G. Tracy’s student