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- Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing. – Abraham Lincoln
- All of my friends were doing babysitting jobs. I wanted money without the job. – Adam Horwitz
- The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect. – Adam Osborne
- The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Agatha Christie
- I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got. – Alan Bond
- If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got! – Alan Scott
- Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein
- Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
- First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will. – Aleksandr Lebed
- Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneur will and spirit of the American people, somewhere else. – Allen West
- One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andre Gide
- Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser’s excuse. – Andrew Fashion
- Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare. – Anon
- 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
- If you’re not living life on the edge, you’re taking up too much space. – Anonymous
- After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. – Aristotle
- The road to success is always under construction. – Arnold Palmer
- We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality. – Arthur C. Brooks
- Today’s developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise. – Arthur Erickson
- Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. – Babe Ruth
- I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% – still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work. – Barbara Corcoran
- Everything started as nothing. – Ben Weissenstein
- The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli
- Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin
- I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby
- In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby
- Be nice to geek’s, you’ll probably end up working for one. – Bill Gates
- Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates
- Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Bennet
- For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. – Bo Bennett
- If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers. – Bo Bennett
- Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. – Booker T. Washington
- If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. – Brian Tracy
- Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking, What’s in it for me? – Brian Tracy
- The longer you’re not taking action the more money you’re losing. – Carrie Wilkerson
- If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions. – Catherine Cook
- I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. – Charles Maurice
- Leaders don’t force people to follow, they invite them on a journey. – Charles S. Lauer
- A bad workman blames his tools. – Chinese Proverb
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Chinese Proverb
- Failing to plan is planning to fail. – Chinese Proverb
- The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese Proverb
- When you go to buy, don’t show your silver. – Chinese Proverb
- There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley
- Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. – Cicero
- If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock. – Claude McDonald
- The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin R. Davis
- The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. – Confucius
- To win without risk is to triumph without glory. – Corneille
- Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. – Dale Carnegie
- Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie
- Ideas are worthless. Execution is what matters. – Dane Carlson
- The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal. – David Geffen
- In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. – David Ogilvy
- A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first. – Daymond John
- An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made. – Daymond John
- If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. – Derek Bok
- As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. – Donald Trump
- I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement. – Donald Trump
- Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. – Dr. Napoleon Hill
- In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. – E. Joseph Cossman
- The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ‘Go!’ – a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’. – E. M. Kelly
- Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. – Earl Wilson
- Go Big, or Go Home. – Eliza Dushku
- Start today, not tomorrow. If anything, you should have started yesterday. – Emil Motycka
- The biggest failure you can have in life is not trying at all. – Emil Motycka
- Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. – Fortune Cookie
- If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken. – Gary Vaynerchuk
- Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. – General George Patton
- I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. – George Burns
- Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg
- He who begins many things finishes but few. – German Proverb
- It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. – Grace Hopper
- A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. – Henry Ford
- Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. – Henry Ford
- 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
- Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford
- Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. – Jack Welch
- I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. – Jack Welch
- If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete. – Jack Welch
- As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. – James Cash Penney
- It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. – James Cash Penney
- Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb
- If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. – Jeff Bezos
- Failure is not about insecurity. It’s about lack of execution. – Jeffrey Gitomer
- Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. – Jim Rohn
- Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn
- Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. – Jim Rohn
- Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. – Jim Rohn
- Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn
- Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. – Jim Rohn
- Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. – Jim Rohn
- If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn
- The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. – Jim Rohn
- The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place. – Jim Rohn
- You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. – Jim Rohn
- Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it. – Joe Penna
100.If you think that you are going to love something, give it a try. You’re going to kick yourself in the butt for the rest of your life if you don’t. – Joe Penna
101.In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
102.What is not started will never get finished. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
103.There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. – John Baldacci
104.A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell
105.A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. – John C. Maxwell
106.Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life. – John F. Kennedy
107.You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it. – John Lennon
108.Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. – Joseph A. Schumpeter
109.Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation. – Kevin Harrington
110.You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. – Les Brown
111.When you cease to dream you cease to live. – Malcolm Forbes
112.I’ve been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies. – Marc Andreessen
113.A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
114.If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti
115.Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty
116.Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you. – Mark Cuban
117.Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. – Mark Twain
118.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
119.When I finished school, I took my entire life savings – $5,000 – and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke. – Mark Warner
120.Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
121.I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I’m doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points. – Michael Dunlop
122.If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there’s nothing lost. – Michael Dunlop
123.You’ve got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don’t work. – Michael Dunlop
124.The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job. – Michael Gerber
125.I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan
126.One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching. – Mooie
127.A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill
128.All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. – Napoleon Hill
129.Anything the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill
130.Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. – Napoleon Hill
131.Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. – Napoleon Hill
132.Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. – Napoleon Hill
133.If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill
134.If you’re not learning while you’re earning, you’re cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation. – Napoleon Hill
135.Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. – Napoleon Hill
136.Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it. – Napoleon Hill
137.Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. – Natalie Clifford Barney
138.The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. – Nolan Bushnell
139.Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. – Peter Drucker
140.The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker
141.The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. – Peter Drucker
142.The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. – Peter F. Drucker
143.Hire character. Train skill. – Peter Schultz
144.The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader
145.An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
146.I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. – Ray Kurzweil
147.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 splat because the bird doesn’t come by, but a few times it does. – Reed Hastings
148.Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson
149.I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. – Richard Branson
150.I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. – Robert Bosch
151.You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. – Robert Collier
152.Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work. – Robert Orben
153.Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. – Robert T. Kiyosaki
154.There are two rules for success. 1) Never tell everything you know. – Roger H. Lincoln
155.An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash
156.Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it. – Ryan Allis
157.Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease. – Ryan P. Allis
158.The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. – Silvio Berlusconi
159.You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new. – Steve Jobs
160.You should always stay hungry. Stay hungry, so you can eat. – Syed Balkhi
161.A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, ‘When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?’ I think it’s a great question. I’ll tell you, in my life I’ve never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. – Ted Cruz
162.Lend your friend $20. If he doesn’t pay you back then he’s not your friend. Money well spent. – Ted Nicolas
163.My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job. – Ted Turner
164.I’ve always been an entrepreneur, but it’s never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better. – Terry McAuliffe
165.Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly, I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it. – Theodore Roosevelt
166.Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. – Thomas Carlyle
167.I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison
168.I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. – Thomas Edison
169.Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison
170.Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. – Thomas J. Watson
171.To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Thomas J. Watson
172.Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. – Thomas J. Watson
173.Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. – Tim Blixseth
174.The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money. – Tom Hooper
175.I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It’s a little easier when you have you’re an entrepreneur. – Tory Burch
176.If you ain’t making waves, you ain’t kickin’ hard enough. – Unknown
177.Its better to own the racecourse then the race horse. – Unknown
178.You don’t buy a nice car and get rich you get rich and buy a nice car. – Unknown
179.An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes. – Victor Kiam
180.The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon
181.If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. – W. Clement Stone
182.Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. – W. Clement Stone
183.Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. – W. Clement Stone
184.Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. – W. Clement Stone
185.I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life.. it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. – Walt Disney
186.The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
187.I’ve been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn’t want a 9-5 job. – Will Estes
188.That’s a tough question; I’ve been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn’t want a 9-5 job. – Will Estes
189.Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. – Will Smith
190.Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there. – Will Smith
191.Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. – William B. Sprague
192.The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. – William James
193.Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
194.Every choice you make has an end result. – Zig Ziglar
195.If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. – Zig Ziglar
196.Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves. – Zig Ziglar
197.One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want. – Zig Ziglar
198.Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar
199.Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have – Zig Ziglar
200.You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. – Zig Ziglar