Inspirational quotes about success, business and entrepreneurship

Whether you are looking for Inspirational Quotes About Success or inspirational quotes for work, you find them all here.

You might also be an entrepreneur at any stage of your business. These inspirational quotes for success from entrepreneurs will inspire you.

I really love quotes because of the extraordinary wisdom locked in them. I find a lot of quotes useful because they inspire me.

The world is with amazing and intelligent people who made a mark when they were alive. These people might no longer be with us but their words are still alive in quotes.

As well, we have people that are still with us who are still making impacts. These people also have blessed the world with their words of wisdom.

Inspirational Quotes About Success

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” – Ray Goforth

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” – Winston Churchill

“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” – Tony Hsieh

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“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

 

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” – Thomas J. Watson

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

“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.” – Anonymous

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Anonymous

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” – Tony Robbins

“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” -Steve Jobs

“The real test is not whether you avoid this failure because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” – Barack Obama

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller

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

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

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

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope

“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

“Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.” – Unknown

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.” – Unknown

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.” – Unknown

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at him.” – David Brinkley

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

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” – Nikos Kazantzakis

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember–the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” – Zig Ziglar

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.

“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.” – Oprah Winfrey

“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.” – Anthony Robbins

“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis

“I failed my way to success.” – Thomas Edison

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.” – Thomas Edison

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” – Charles F. Kettering

Inspirational Quotes for Success from Entrepreneurs

“Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.” – Peter F. Drucker

“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

“I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.” – Jeff Bezos

“If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.” – Jeff Bezos

“There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.” – Jeff Bezos

“We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.” – Jeff Bezos

“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” – Elon Musk

“The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it.” – Steve Jobs

“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” – Steve Jobs

“When 99% of people doubt your idea, you’re either gravely wrong or about to make history.” – Scott Belsky

“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” – Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder

“If you are not embarrassed by how naïve you were six months ago, you are not learning fast enough.” – Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder

“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo”For all great innovations, someone took a risk. They risked capital; they risked their energy; they risked their opportunity cost; and more important, they risked failure. We can’t innovate without the belief that we can succeed, the confidence that others will be there to help us on the journey, and the security that we will not be punished if we fail to reach our goal. A fast-moving world demands innovation for long-term success.” – Dov Seidman

“An innovation has no value until an entrepreneur turns that innovation into a product or service that customers want to buy.” – Jim Clifton

“Your vision is about what drives your business to success. It is the change that you hope to make. No matter if you start with the segment, problem, product, or technology, the vision is less about how you change, and more about what you change.” – Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits, The Lean Entrepreneur

“Innovation and creativity doesn’t come from the bureaucracy of big businesses. It comes from the entrepreneurialism of small businesses. ” – Jim Joseph, The Experience Effect

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs”. – Farrah Gray

“Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” – Walter Anderson

“People have this vision of being the CEO of a company they started and being on top of the pyramid. Some people are motivated by that, but that’s not at all what it’s like.
What it’s really like: everyone else is your boss – all of your employees, customers, partners, users, media are your boss. I’ve never had more bosses and needed to account for more people today.
The life of most CEOs is reporting to everyone else, at least that’s what it feels like to me and most CEOs I know. If you want to exercise power and authority over people, join the military or go into politics. Don’t be an entrepreneur.” – Phil Libin Evernote CEO

“Understanding of the process actually comes from years of trial and error in areas that most designers and developers wouldn’t concern themselves with. Getting your butt kicked for decade as an entrepreneur gives you context. Being a bootstrapping entrepreneur is a form of constraint because it teaches you how to make growth decisions on the fly, not because it might be better, but because you had to survive.” – Drew Wilson and Josh Long.

“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 (Entrepreneur; founded both Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza-Time Theaters chain)

“I think if you’re an entrepreneur, you’ve got to dream big and then dream bigger.” – Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks

“Ideas are a commodity. Execution of them is not.” – Michael Dell

“The customer is never wrong.” – César Ritz, Famous Hotelier

“Right or wrong, the customer is always right.” – Famous Marshall Field, Retailer

“Work hard, be nice to people, and skip all the bullshit.” – Christian Reber

Inspirational Quotes for Work

 

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”- Alexander Graham Bell

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

“What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson”It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” —Herman Melville

“Fall 7 times, stand up 8.” —Japanese Proverb

“It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power.” —Robert T. Kiyosaki

“Success only comes to those who dare to attempt.” —Mallika Tripathi

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” —Dale Carnegie

“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

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

“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Saint Francis

“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” – Eva Young

“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.” – William Patten

“Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”- Patrick Suskind

“You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.” – Irish Proverb

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

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

“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.” – Thomas Carlyle

“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” – Lou Holtz

“The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.” – Tricia Cunningham

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” – Dalai Lama

“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” – Dale Carnegie

“Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.” – Tyler Perry

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.” – Viggo Mortensen

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.” – Denis Waitley

“As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame, but for learning.” – Margaret Heffernan

“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.” – Joan Collins

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.” – Zig Ziglar

“The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.” – Gary Ryan Blair

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

“You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.” – Elbert Hubbard

“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” – Alan Wilson Watts

“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” – Stephen R. Covey

“Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”- Mark Twain

“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.” – Joseph Barbara

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills

“I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich.” – Jim Carrey

“If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.” – David Allen

“A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.” – Mildred Struven

“Think of many things; do one.” – Portuguese proverb

“If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.” – David Allen

“It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.” – Colin Powell