Being an entrepreneur, particularly in the early days can be tough. The wise words of others who have gone before and succeeded, often inspires and provides the fuel to move forward. In this book you will find quotations that are perfect for almost every situation an entrepreneur faces, from individuals as diverse as Abraham Lincoln to Bill Gates and Mark Twain to Anita Roddick. We hope they inspire and motivate you in the way they do us. Martin Soorjoo Founder Investor Pitch Clinic

1. Quotations for
Entrepreneurs

2. Being an entrepreneur, particularly in the early days can be
tough. The wise words of others who have gone before and
succeeded, often inspires and provides the fuel to move
forward.
In this book you will find quotations that are perfect for almost
every situation an entrepreneur faces, from individuals as
diverse as Abraham Lincoln to Bill Gates and Mark Twain to Anita
Roddick.
We hope they inspire and motivate you in the way they do us.
Martin Soorjoo
Founder

3. "Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.”
Tony Hsieh – Zappos

4. "Those who are willing to take action and
take risks succeed. The others fade
quickly.”
Bradley Smith

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6. “You've got to get up every morning with
determination if you're going to go to
bed with satisfaction.”
George Lorimer

7. "Every day at a startup is a roller
coaster."
Mike Hudack CEO,Co-Founder Blip TV

8. "It’s never too late to be who you might
have been’”
George Elliot

9. "When you innovate, you’ve got to be
prepared for people telling you that you
are nuts. "
Larry Ellison , Founder Oracle

10. “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an
action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a
character; sow a character, reap a
destiny.”
Chinese Proverb

11. Advice for every pitch
situation a modern day
entrepreneur will encounter
Whether you're pitching for
funding, the media, or to
potential customers and
partners, to survive and
succeed as an entrepreneur,
you have to know how to
deliver a high-impact
pitch. Here's the Pitch reveals
powerful proven techniques
to get your audience to take
the action you want.
You'll learn the same
strategies and tactics that
have been used by
entrepreneurs to raise
millions of dollars, secure
partnerships, and win big
sales contracts.

12. "We were young, but we had good
advice and good ideas and lots of
enthusiasm."
Bill Gates

13. “I could not wait for success, so I went
ahead without it”
Jonathan Winters

14. "The middle of every successful project
looks like a disaster"
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

15. “You can’t build a reputation on what
you’re going to do.”
Henry Ford

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17. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual,
you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
Jim Rohn

18. “If you don’t have a competitive
advantage, don’t compete.”
Jack Welch

19. “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people
aren't used to an environment where
excellence is expected.”
Steve Jobs

20. "Unless a man undertakes more than he
possibly can do, he will never do all that
he can."
Henry Drummond

21. “The difference between the impossible
and the possible lies in a man's
determination.”
Tommy Lasorda

22. “You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than
anyone else.”
Albert Einstein

23. "However beautiful the strategy, you
should occasionally look at the results. "
Winston Churchill

24. “Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal,
nothing can help the man with the wrong
attitude.”
Jefferson

25. "Keep away from people who try to
belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make
you feel that you, too, can become
great."
Mark Twain

26. “If you're interested, you'll do what's
convenient. If you're committed, you'll
do whatever it takes.”
John Assaraf

27. “The critical ingredient is getting off your
butt and doing something. It's as simple
as that. A lot of people have ideas, but
there are few who decide to do
something about them now. Not
tomorrow. Not next week. But today.
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a
dreamer."
Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E.
Cheese's

28. “It always seems impossible until it's
done.”
Anonymous

29. “Don't wait. The time will never be just
right.”
Napoleon Hill

30. " Fall seven times; stand up eight"
Japanese proverb

31. “Life is not a matter of holding good
cards, but sometimes, playing a poor
hand well.”
Jack London

32. "Happy are those who dream dreams and
are ready to pay the price to make them
come true.“
Leon J. Suenes

33. "Success is the good fortune that comes
from aspiration, desperation,
perspiration and inspiration."
Evan Esar

34. "Go confidently in the direction of your
dreams. Live the life you have imagined. "
Henry David Thoreau

35. I think a hero is an ordinary individual
who finds strength to persevere and
endure in spite of overwhelming
obstacles. Christopher Reeves

36. “Nobody who ever gave his best
regretted it.”
George Hala

37. “Wherever you see a successful business,
someone once made a courageous
decision.”
Peter F. Drucker

38. There is only one thing that makes a
dream impossible to achieve: the fear of
failure"
Paulo Coelho

39. “Success consists of going from failure to
failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
Sir Winston Churchill

40. “To be successful, you must decide
exactly what you want to accomplish,
then resolve to pay the price to get it.”
Bunker Hunt

41. "If you haven't failed 5X as many times as
you succeeded you're not prepared for
success"
Jay Adelson , Co-Founder Digg

42. "The question isn't who is going to let
me; it's who is going to stop me"
Ayn Rand

43. "You can't wait for inspiration. You have
to go after it with a club."
Jack London

44. "There are lots of good reasons to
abandon a project. Having a little
competition is not one of them."
Seth Godin

45. "Always deliver more than expected.”
Larry Page

46. 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."
Steve Case AOL

47. "Life is either a daring adventure or
nothing."
Helen Keller

48. "If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily
basis, your goals aren’t ambitious
enough. "
Chris Dixon, Co-Founder Hunch

49. "Don’t be shy about believing in your
ideas - even if folks around you think
you’re crazy. "
Tim Westergren, Founder Pandora

50. "Always bear in mind that your own
resolution to success is more important
than any other one thing."
Abraham Lincoln

51. "Vision without action is a daydream.
Action without vision is a nightmare "
Japanese Proverb

52. "In the business world, the rear view
mirror is always clearer that the
windshield "
Warren Buffett

53. “Be nice to geek’s, you’ll probably end up
working for one"
Bill Gates

54. “If you think you can, you can. And if you
think you can’t, you’re right.”
Henry Ford

55. “There are people that sit and talk about
where they want to be, and there are
people who go out and be who they
want to be "
Anonymous

56. "The only limit to our realization of
tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

57. "It is a rough road that leads to the
heights of greatness."
Seneca

58. “Opportunities multiply as they are
seized.”
Sun Tzu

59. "In life you need either inspiration or
desperation"
Tony Robbins

60. “The most valuable thing you can make is
a mistake. You can't learn anything from
being perfect'.”
Adam Osborne - American Entrepreneur

61. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000
ways that won't work"
Thomas Edison, inventor and scientist

62. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in getting up every time we do.”
Confucius

63. “Successful leaders see the opportunities
in every difficulty rather than the
difficulty in every opportunity.”
Reed Markham

64. "If past history was all there was to the
game, the richest people would be
librarians."
Warren Buffett

65. A real entrepreneur is somebody who has
no safety net underneath them."
Henry Kravis - Co founder PE Firm

66. "Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures
before final success. What sets the
successful ones apart is their amazing
persistence "
Lisa M. Amos

67. “If you don't see yourself as a winner,
then you cannot perform as a winner”
Zig Ziglar

68. "Winners have simply formed the habit of
doing things losers don't like to do "
Sir Winston Churchill

69. "Innovation distinguishes between a
leader and a follower“
Steve Jobs

70. “There are no secrets to success. It is the
result of preparation, hard work, and
learning from failure.”
Colin Powell

71. “Obstacles are those frightful things you
can see when you take your eyes off your
goal.”
Henry Ford

72. "Screw it, ,Let's Do it"
Sir Richard Branson

73. "The best way to predict the future is to
invent it.”
Alan Kay, Computer Scientist

74. “I know the price of success: dedication,
hard work and an unremitting devotion
to the things you want to see happen.”
Frank Lloyd Wright

75. "Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as
survival, but that's exactly what it is.”
Anita Roddick - Founder Body Shop

76. "It is easier to go down a hill than up, but
the view is from the top.”
Arnold Bennett

77. “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."
Steve Case AOL

78. "Nothing will ever be attempted if all
possible objections must first be
overcome."
Samuel Johnson

79. " The more I want to get something
done, the less I call it work.”
Richard Bach

80. “Do not go where the path may lead, go
instead where there is no path and leave
a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

81. “I do not think there is any other quality
so essential to success of any kind as the
quality of perseverance. It overcomes
almost everything, even nature.”
Rockerfeller

82. "Fortune favors the brave."
Publius Terence

83. " Failure is the opportunity to begin
again, more intelligently .“
Henry Ford

84. "There's always room in your life for
thinking bigger, pushing limits &
imagining the impossible."
Anonymous

85. " Talk does not cook rice."
Chinese Proverb

86. "When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an
opportunity. You have the choice. You can
overcome and be a winner, or you can allow
it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice
is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in
the towel. Go that extra mile that failures
refuse to travel. It is far better to be
exhausted from success than to be rested
from failure."
Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

87. "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, creator of a popular line of
African-American hair care products and
America's first black female millionaire

88. “Failure defeats losers, failure inspires
winners.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki, author, entrepreneur

89. “In order to succeed, your desire for
success should be greater than your fear
of failure.”
Bill Cosby

90. “If everything seems under control,
you’re just not going fast enough.”
Mario Andretti

91. “I’ve always worked very, very hard, and
the harder I worked, the luckier I got.”
Alan Bond

92. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at
something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
Michael Jordan

93. “Better understated than overstated. Let
people be surprised that it was more
than you promised and easier than you
said.”
Jim Rohn

94. “Every accomplishment starts with the
decision to try.”
Anonymous

95. "It's not whether you get knocked down,
it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi

96. “Successful and unsuccessful people do
not vary greatly in their abilities. They
vary in their desires to reach their
potential.”
Maxwell

97. “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, founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies

98. “If you have an urge to build something
that could change the world, don’t focus
on the money, but the legacy you’ll leave
behind.”
Alexander Tamas

99. “I could not wait for success, so I went
ahead without it.”
Jonathan Winters

100. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss,
you'll land among the stars.”
Les Brown

101. “When I want to think, I sit. When I want
to change, I act.”
Japanese Proverb

102. “I have failed over and over and over
again in my life and that is why I
succeed.” Michael Jordan

103. “You don't have to be great to start, but
you have to start to be great”
Joe Sarah

104. “Never look back unless you are planning
to go that way”
Henry David Thoreau

105. “Go for it now. The future is promised to no
one”
Wayne Dyer

106. “I do not believe a man can ever leave his
business. He ought to think of it by day
and dream of it by night.” – Henry Ford

107. “Entrepreneurship is neither a science
nor an art. It is a practice.” – Peter
Drucker

108. “The superior man is modest in his
speech, but exceeds in his actions.” –
Confucius

109. "Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but
nothing replaces actual experience. "
Tony Hsieh

110. “I had never been interested in being ‘in
business’. I’ve been interested in creating
things.” Richard Branson

111. "It's hard to do a really good job on
anything you don't think about in the
shower' Paul Graham

112. “I owe my success to having listened
respectfully to the very best advice, and
then going away and doing the exact
opposite.” – G. K. Chesterton,

113. "The Difference Between Success and
Failure is the Ability to Adapt ' - Jack
Bauer

114. To accomplish great things, we must not
only act, but also dream; not only plan,
but also believe.
Anatole France - Poet

115. Good entrepreneurs have a chip on their
shoulders. They are out to prove
something.
Mark Suster

116. “ My life has been a series of well-
orchestrated accidents; I’ve always
suffered from hallucinogenic optimism. ”
Evan Williams

117. There is no such thing as a quantum leap.
There is only dogged persistence - and in
the end you make it look like a quantum
leap.
James Dyson

118. “ The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a
dreamer. Nolan Bushnell

119. “ Big companies will talk to you, criticize
you, then copy you. ” David Ulevitch

120. "Do or do not. There is no try. "- Yoda

121. Advice for every pitch
situation a modern day
entrepreneur will encounter
Whether you're pitching for
funding, the media, or to
potential customers and
partners, to survive and
succeed as an entrepreneur,
you have to know how to
deliver a high-impact
pitch. Here's the Pitch reveals
powerful proven techniques
to get your audience to take
the action you want.
You'll learn the same
strategies and tactics that
have been used by
entrepreneurs to raise
millions of dollars, secure
partnerships, and win big
sales contracts.

122. "If you set your goals ridiculously high
and it’s a failure, you will fail above
everyone else’s success."
James Cameron

123. "In a startup, things seem great one
moment and hopeless the next. And by
next, I mean a couple hours later. "
Paul Graham

124. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to
excel are the things that endure. These
qualities are so much more important
than the events that occur.
Vince Lombardi

125. We believed in ourselves all year. That’s the
position you want to be in.
Eli Manning

126. You have to play this game like somebody just
hit your mother with a two-by-four.
Dan Birdwell

127. If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
Joe Namath

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