111 Motivational Phrases for Entrepreneurs
An undertaking is a sacrifice. It is a constant challenge that tests us. Whether the ship floats or sinks is up to us, no one will come to rescue us in the event of a storm.
Therefore, as a good captain, we must be strong and determined in our purpose if we want to reach our destination: Treasure Island, in this case, be successful with our business.
It will not be easy. Nothing worthwhile in life is. But if we continue working on it, we can increase our chances to achieve it.
Motivation will not help you to carry out a project; it is not enough. It is the discipline that will do it. But, with motivation, things are more natural.
Motivation is like the lubricant we put in the engine. With this, we lubricate your parts and allow them to continue working. The discipline, the work we dedicate, is gasoline, that which will enable things to move.
Phrases and their Authors
Writers, athletes, artists, politicians, thinkers, leaders, successful entrepreneurs and even a fictional character from a well-known movie. People who have stood out in their respective fields (that is why they are quoted) and have something important to tell us, in the form of a phrase.
In these 111 motivational sentences that I have compiled, you will not only find motivation but, most importantly, ideas that can make you rethink things. What you then do with those ideas is up to you.
You will never know where that idea will come from that will push you to start a project or the one that will give you the necessary motivation to finish it or to overcome a pothole that has you blocked.
Maybe you can find it here in this article.
Suggestions for using this material
Use it as you prefer, it was missing more, but this is my suggestion:
At least the first time, read it all through, from the first sentence to the last. The order of the sentences is not random but has a sense of being.
After the previous sentence, you will see that I ask you a question. Write it down on a piece of paper, think about it and, in time, try to answer it.
Once you have done this, you can return to this post whenever you need motivation or new ideas for your business or your life.
Not only will the entrepreneur take advantage of these phrases. Most of these phrases contain lessons applicable to anyone, no matter what they do or plan to do.
111 Motivational Phrases for entrepreneurs and 1 Question
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t get caught up in dogma, which is living like others think you should live. Don’t let the noises of others’ opinions silence your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. These, somehow, already know what you really want to become. Everything else is secondary.” — Steve Jobs
2. “What is not started will never have an end” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3. “The way to start is to stop talking and start doing.” — Walt Disney
4. “An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. “I am not going to limit myself just because other people will not accept the fact that I can do something else” — Dolly Parton
6. “Destiny is not a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. It is not something to be expected, but something to achieve” — Jeremy Kitson
7. “Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to return to work in your life” — Confucius
8. “When you stop dreaming you stop living” — Malcolm Forbes
9. “Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.”- David Harley
“If you can dream it, you can do it” — Walt Disney
11. “Go Big, or Go Home” — Eliza Dushku
12. “Having high expectations is the key to everything” — Sam Walton
13. “The man who has no imagination has no wings” — Muhammad Ali
14. “I want to do it because I want to do it” — Amelia Earhart
15. “The best use of life is to dedicate it to something that will survive it.” — William James
16. “I definitely wanted to gain my freedom. But the main motivation was not to make money but to make an impact.”- Sean Parker
17. “The greatest risk is not taking any risk … In a world that changes really fast, the only strategy in which failure is guaranteed is not taking risks.” — Mark Zuckerberg
18. “The best way to predict the future is to create it” — Peter Drucker
19. “If everything seems under control, then you are not going fast enough.” — Mario Andretti
“I couldn’t wait for success, so I kept going without it.” — Jonathan Winters
21. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” — Michael Jordan
22. “It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times it almost works out. No one will know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and the people around you because all that matters in business are that it works out once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.”- Mark Cuban
23. “Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.” — Earl Nightingale
24. “Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can do something complicated. The hard part is keeping things simple.”- Richard Branson
25. “The most valuable thing you can do is make a mistake — you can learn nothing from being perfect.” — Adam Osborne
26. “We actually compete with ourselves, we have no control over the performance of others” — Pete Cashmore
27. “Winners never give up and those who give up never win” — Vince Lombardi
28. “One of the biggest mistakes people make is trying to force themselves to be interested in something. You do not choose your passions; your passions choose you” — Jeff Bezos
29. “A leader is someone who knows the way, walks the way, and shows the way.” — John C. Maxwell
“The more time that passes without you acting the more money you are failing to earn.” — Carrie Wilkerson
31. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the work we are doing, and the determination that, win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand” — Vince Lombardi
32. “I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the easiest things first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.” — Mark Zuckerberg
33. “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life in a way that most will not do so that you can spend the rest of your life in a way that most cannot.” — A student of Warren G. Tracy
34. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers” — Ralph Nader
35. “Stay away from those people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do it, but the really big ones make you feel that you can be great too.”- Mark Twain
36. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you will be successful” — Albert Schweitzer
37. “There is only one success — being able to live your life your way” — Christopher Morley
38. “Thinking is easy. Acting is difficult. Acting as one thinks is the most difficult thing.”- Johann Wolfgang von Goeth
39. “80% of your life is spent working. You want to have a good time at home. Why not have a good time at work?” — Richard Branson
“One day your life will pass before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” — Gerard Way
41. “Failure beats losers, failure inspires winners.” — Robert T. Kiyosaki
42. “I am not afraid of dying, I am afraid of not trying” — Jay Z
43. “Business opportunities are like buses, there is always another arriving” — Richard Branson
44. “I am here to create something with the long term in mind. Anything else is a distraction.”- Mark Zuckerberg
45. “The golden rule of every businessman is this: Put yourself in the place of your client” — Orison Swett Marden
46. ??”Business is more exciting than any game.” — Lord Beaverbrook
47. “The only limits are, as always, those of vision” — James Broughton
48. “Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you are not scared by these things, the opportunities are as good today as they always were.”- David Rockefeller
49. “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” — Babe Ruth
“The trick is what you emphasize. We can make ourselves miserable, or we can make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same” — Carlos Castaneda
51. “The entrepreneur always seeks change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” — Peter F. Drucker
52. “The first one gets the oyster, the second one the shell” — Andrew Carnegie
53. “It is not the strongest species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most receptive to change” — Charles Darwin
54. “Why did you want to win? Because I didn’t want to lose!” — Max Schmeling
55. “To be successful in business, reach the top, one must know everything there is to know about that business.” — J. Paul Getty
56. “Winning without risk is success without glory” — Pierre Corneille
57. “Your reputation is more important than your pay, and your integrity is worth more than your career.” — Ryan Freitas
58. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too big” — Jeff Bezos
59. “There is nothing wrong with being small. You can do great things with a small team.”- Jason Fried
“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of accomplishment. The antidote is to think every afternoon what can be done better tomorrow” — Ingvar Kamprad
61. “Fail often so you can be successful soon.” — Tom Kelley
62. “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good” — Paul Rand
63. “Our goal is to create the best devices in the world, not to be the largest” — Steve Jobs
64. “Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision of something and a desire to create” — David Karp
65. “The last 10% it takes to throw something requires the same energy as the first 90%” — Rob Kalin
66. “Don’t play games you don’t understand, even if you see many other people making money from them.” — Tony Hsieh
67. “People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want” — Seth Godin
68. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is difficult” — Guy Kawasaki
69. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing … is not starting something” — Seth Godin
“Don’t worry about financing if you don’t need it. Today starting a business is cheaper than ever.” — Noah Everett
71. “All humans are entrepreneurs, not because they must all create companies, but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA” — Reid Hoffman
72. “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy is, if you are playing alone, you will always lose to a team.” — Reid Hoffman
73. “You risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical” — Howard Schultz
74. “Diligence is the mother of good luck” — Benjamin Franklin
75. “He always delivers more than expected.” — Larry Page
76. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing it and falling down.”- Richard Branson
77. “I never took a day off in my twenties. None” — Bill Gates
78. “Often people are working hard on the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”- Caterina Fake
79. “Trust your instinct” .- Estée Lauder
“When you find an idea you can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good idea to pursue.” — Josh James
81. “If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. So never, never, never give up.”- Norman Vincent Peale
82. “Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential” — Winston Churchill
83. “You cannot choose how or when you will die. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now” — Joan Báez
84. “Success formula: Get up early, work hard, find oil” — Paul Getty
85. “The thoughts we choose to have are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.” — Louise Hay
86. “Sometimes life hits you with a brick on the head. Don’t lose faith” — Steve Jobs
87. “In life, you learn that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself” — Katharine Hepburn
88. “It only takes one person to change your life: you” — Ruth Casey
89. “Courage is not lack of fear, but the decision that something else is more important than fear” — Ambrose Redmoon (James Neil Hollingworth)
“Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
91. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm” — Winston Churchill
92. “If you are clear with what you want, the world responds clearly” — Loretta Staples
93. “I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And the same goes for you … we are in command of our attitudes.”- Charles Swindoll
94. “If you don’t make things happen then things will happen to you” — Robert Collier
95. “Forget the mistakes of the past. Forget the failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do now and do it.”- William Durant
96. “It doesn’t matter how slowly you go, as long as you don’t stop.” — Confucius
97. “Success is the sum of small efforts -repeated one day, yes and another too” — Robert Collier
98. “Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base while keeping your foot on first.”- Frederick B Wilcox
99. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little bit more” — Jimmy Johnson
“If you really want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.” — Gurbaksh Chahal
101. “Get an idea. Make that idea your life — think of it, dream about it, live on that idea. Leave the brain, muscles, nerves, all parts of your body, fill with that idea, and just leave any other ideas alone. This is the way to success” — Swami Vivekananda
102. “Nothing is particularly difficult if you divide it into small jobs.” — Henry Ford
103. “Find a good reason for everything you do” — Laurence Olivier
104. “You are not your resume, you are your job” — Seth Godin
105. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford
106. “Please think about your legacy, because you are writing it every day.” — Gary Vaynerchuck
107. “Instead of wondering when your next vacation will be, you should build yourself a life from which you don’t need to escape.” — Seth Godin
108. “Do it, or don’t do it, but don’t try it” — Yoda
109. “Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” — Chinese proverb
110. “Act or accept” — Anonymous
111. “For the past 33 years, I have looked at myself in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am going to do today?’ And when the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”- Steve Jobs
And after reading these 111 phrases, we have added this question for you at the end: What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?
Think about it. Take your time. When you think deeply you have an answer, don’t tell others, just grab a pen and write it on a piece of paper. If you do, you will have planted a new seed in the form of an idea, what sprouts from it is now up to you. All the best to you.
Originally published at https://www.thebrilliance.org on May 26, 2020.
