Quotes About Starting Your Own Business

Starting your own business can be exciting and daunting at the same time. Here are 99 quotes to inspire and motivate you on your entrepreneurial journey:

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats
“If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.” – Ray Kroc
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” – Seth Godin
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” – Steve Jobs
“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.” – Jason Fried
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott
“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” – Tony Hsieh
“The road to success is always under construction.” – Lily Tomlin
“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” – Scott Belsky
“When you cease to dream you cease to live.” – Malcolm Forbes
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
“Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” – Oprah Winfrey
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” – Mark Zuckerberg
“If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” – Tony Gaskins
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
“If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” – Zig Ziglar
“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” – Larry Page
“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.” – Anonymous
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” – Sheryl Sandberg
“If you don’t make things happen then things will happen to you.” – Robert Collier
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The only source of knowledge is experience.” – Albert Einstein
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” – William James
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
“The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.” – Hasidic Proverb
“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.” – Unknown
“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” – Seth Godin
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley
“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn
“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself.” – Tony Robbins
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” – Tony Robbins
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs